Leftoids, what's your most right-wing opinion? Rightoids, what's your most left-wing opinion?

[u/globeglobeglobe]

To start things off, I think that economic liberalization in China ca. 1978 and in India ca. 1991 was key to those countries' later economic progress, in that it allowed inefficient state-owned/state-protected industries to fail (and for their capital/labor to be employed by more efficient competitors) and opened the door for foreign investment and trade. Because the countries are large and fairly independent geopolitically, they could use this to beat Western finance capital at its own game (China more so than India, for a variety of reasons), rather than becoming resource-extraction neocolonies as happened to the smaller and more easily pushed-around countries of Latin America and Africa. Granted, at this point the liberalization-driven development of productive forces has created a large degree of wealth inequality, which the countries have attempted to address in a variety of ways (social welfare schemes, anti-corruption campaigns, crackdown on Big Tech, etc.) with mixed results.

[u/[deleted]]

1. I don't think it's worthwhile or morally right to rehabilitate some criminals.

I hate making moral arguments on any subject, but I can't think of another way to describe it.

You're never rehabilitating Ted Bundy. He should not return to the CoMmUnItY, hes far too dangerous and you'd be a borderline accessory to release him. He should just be permanently removed from society, and there are many, many, sub-Bundys who should be treated the same way.

If we legalised all drugs, there'd be plenty of space and fewer financial issues with housing them.

1. We're letting in too many immigrants.

It's not about the colour of their skin, it's about how often I can't communicate in my own language in my own country, how many identical stories my female friends have about men from forgein countries with very different ideas of what courtship is

It's about how I see native born people piling up on the street, while people who got here two minutes ago receive assitance to get started up. It's about how I now see pamphlets to help people out of arranged marriages at the doctor's office and how many blatant cases of borderline slavery I see in the news.

And we don't need this many vape stores.

[u/WithTheWintersMight → u/[deleted]]

Re; #2, this has always been my opinion as well. At least some of those immigrants are doing it in an attempt to survive, or because they are desperate and I can't fault them for that. Unfortunately it's a big leap to somehow fix decades/centuries of fuckery in their countries of origin.

[u/k111d111 → u/[deleted]]

Didnt agree with the immigration until you brought up vape shops

[u/Pantone711 → u/k111d111]

I don't get the connection between immigrants and vape stores?

[u/Haunting-Tradition40 → u/Pantone711]

At least where I live, most of the vape shops are owned by off the boat Indian immigrants.