would he be good president?

  • Masterofballs@exploding-heads.com
    5·
    11 months ago

    From the perspective he has zero change of winning I love RFK Jr. He is absolutely breaking the media which I loved about Trump.

    He is also an extremely rich Kennedy that is often out of touch with the common man. And you can tell by his support of affirmative action. Of course he feels guilty for having his life provided on a silver plate.

    I love how he is exposing all the evil corporations though. Wish more republicans did that. Instead of sucking big oil’s dick while appalachian kids are born deformed from all the pollution.

  • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    TBH, I don’t know jack shit about him other than that he a Kennedy. Anybody wanna clue me in?

    From the perspective of someone that is extremely pro-gun (as in I think the NRA is too willing to compromise and usually vote predominantly based along 2A lines), anti-trans, nationalist (or whatever you call someone who wants to bring jobs back home/prioritize citizens over immigrants/reduce foreign affairs)… Would I potentially like him at least as much as trump/Desantis?

      • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Thanks. Not sure what that means (isn’t liberal = anti gun, libertarian= pro gun… at least in the us)?

        But I saw in the link from your other comment he say

        I’m a constitutional absolutist. We can argue about whether the Second Amendment was intended to protect guns. That argument has now been settled by the Supreme Court.

        So he definitely ok on 2A for me. I just distrustful of politicians especially since I remember libertarian Gay Johnson in the 2016 elections who was libertarian candidate and allegedly pro-2A but then he flip flop after a shooting and cave to wanting gun control… Really piss me off.

        Anyway if he pro immigration then yeah probably not my first pick. Not completely anti immigrant but I would want the exact opposite of what liberals usually want (e.g. I want more anti-communist, skilled, and predominantly white Christians, with no criminal history). He still sounds much much better than any other choices I’ve seen on the left in the past decade

        • Fisuxcel@exploding-heads.comOP
          3·
          11 months ago

          Well americans use the term liberal wrongly, libertarianism by definition means: classical liberalism, minarchism or anarchocapitalism. If you support gun rights you are liberal regarding guns but not necessarily lefwing.

          • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Well americans use the term liberal wrongly

            Been trying to read up on this a bit more. Someone else mentioned something similar in a comment recently too. I had previously assumed “liberal” meant “more government” since people also say things like “liberal amounts of (bacon/butter/etc)” to mean “more”. But seems like that is wrong or at least not how the political term works.

            From reading online (mostly this quora post), it sounds like the term “liberal” in Europe came from the idea of “liberty”, much like “libertarian” in the US with their main opposition in EU being existing aristocracy and theocracy. Since US didn’t have these elements, both parties were originally based off EU “liberalism” concepts but have diverged over time on other points.

            So yeah, sounds like the term “liberal” as it is used over here is probably a misnomer /bastardization/whatever. I don’t think I’ll be able to change everybody in the states to use different term but I will try to avoid on global sites going forward to avoid confusion

            So guessing Europe doesn’t have “Republicans” but do the terms “woke”, “conservative”, “left (-wing)”, and “right(-wing)” still more or less have the same meaning as in US? Or is just completely different and I will need to do more reading before I get?

            From stuff I see online, seems like there are many Europeans who have very similar values to myself and I’d rather not accidentally piss off the wrong people just cuz I used a local term that mean something completely different there… I want to express myself correctly so I piss off the right people using the right terms 😁

            • Fisuxcel@exploding-heads.comOP
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              11 months ago

              Yes conservatives lefties and woke are the same however european politics is way more leftwing. For eg. most of the society accepted lockdowns, 80% of the people are vaccinated etc… also the populist parties are seen as very controversial unfortunately there are no normal conservative parties so you gotta choose in between rightwing populism or immigration liberalism. Most europeans are against conspiracy theories so that’s also big difference.

            • Fisuxcel@exploding-heads.comOP
              2·
              11 months ago

              Small gov, direct democracy and free speech is what i associate with liberalism. The US rightwingers/conservatives can be at times ultraconservative for eg. regarding abortion but they are way more liberal when it comes to covid restrictions and guns etc. European rightwingers/conservatives are more conservative so they were mostly in support of the authoritarian covid policies. If the opposite of conservatism is radicalism the opposite of liberalism is authoritarianism.

    • JuanEpstein@exploding-heads.com
      2·
      11 months ago

      He is very anti-big corporation especially when the government makes the rules to benefit said corporation. That’s what I like about him. I am voting for him in the Democrat primary - a primary I have never voted in before. But mainly that is because I hate Biden and all the woke Democrats. I hope he wins but I would probably vote for Desantis or Ramaswamy over RFK. I’d vote RFK over Trump though because I don’t like Trump - he begs for the admiration of the media and did every single thing Fauci wanted. I think he was OK but too easily taken advantage of.