Why is Sup Forums such a liberal place? It's pretty obvious that the general attitude of people here is a leftist one. Like, I'm all for libre software and freedom for users. I might even consider myself to have a few leftwing tendencies when it comes to software, but for nearly everything else, I'm a gun totin', red meat eating conservative. Anyone else have opinions like this? Libtard for software, but right-wing everywhere else. I can't be the only one.
>Mod's Bait/On-topic Discussion Distraction:
What USEFUL things can someone who knows C/C++ do with a raspberry pi (Model B)? Mines collecting dust atm.
Open source has nothing to do with politics. You over thought somewhere.
Owen Diaz
>young people tend to be more left wing >smart and well educated people tend to be left wing
there you go
Oliver Rodriguez
>niggers and faggots are also left wing really makes you think
Luis Green
well i'm not american so those things aren't really associated with political alignment. there are plenty of gay conservatives where i'm from. although admittedly most minorities are left wing.
Jack Jackson
>>niggers and faggots are also left wing >African Americans and gay people can't be smart and well educated people Really makes you think
Fuck off back to
Asher Bailey
>People with no life experience tend to be more left wing
checks out
Zachary Rivera
t. triggered nigger fag
Christopher Johnson
people just get richer as they get older and they have more personal responsibilities like kids and partners etc. this, coupled with the simple fact that everyone gets more cynical and moany as they age, makes a shift towards selfishness and the right inevitable.
Cooper Rodriguez
Real conservative men wrench their cars, shoot shit innawoods, drink hard liquor and get into fights at bars.
Ain't got no time for that faggot computer nerd shit.
Luis Lopez
Tfw liberals in France are the right wing. You americans have no idea what the "left" is
Jaxon Jackson
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Liam Cox
i made a wetter station with my rpi 2; it has an anemometer, temperature, pressure and temperature sensor connected via an arduino; all data is plotted and plots can be viewed over a web server
Charles Torres
WTF I'm voting liberal now
Caleb Perez
Yeah, when mommy and daddy can't help you anymore you realize that money doesn't come from a magical place in the sky and you can't help everyone the same.
Oliver Sanchez
Everyone knows it comes from a magical place called the federal reserve.
Adrian Gomez
>Business/economics/accounting majors tend to be right wing >I.e. the people who know anything about economic policy
Sebastian Cruz
There's nothing Liberal or left-wing in wanting to spread knowledge or make it readily available to everyone. It's its own set of morals.
Centuries ago children would be taught to read by landowners and members of the Church, yet you'll struggle to find something less progressive than the aristocracy.
Isaiah Perez
>why are people who are interested in X not well versed in politics People of Sup Forums are interested in tech, you shouldn't be concerned about their political beliefs, that's almost as silly as when people consider what famous people have to say in regards to politics, they're actors not politicians.
Austin Watson
>thinking that businessmen and especially accountants give a fuck about what's good for the "economy"
i'll give you economists
Jayden Reyes
>everyone I disagree with is Sup Forums
Easton Gonzalez
I don't understand how anyone can find major or absolutely conservatism or leftism appealing. Both have absolutely retarded ideals and beliefs with some good ones sprinkled around.
Cameron Bailey
Everyone I disagree with is triggered/a nigger/a faggot/a nigger faggot/ a triggered nigger faggot
Nathaniel Evans
Teams are very important. You have to stick with yours or you'll get a harsh talking to.
Josiah Phillips
I seriously hope you're not assuming I'm the same poster as the one you quoted, that would be highly ironic.
Jace Lewis
I want to be on the non-retard team. Where do I find that? So far all I've seen are red team faggots screaming at blue team faggots.
Juan Perry
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Lucas Phillips
sure you aren't
Angel Foster
>it's not possible for more than 1 person to disagree with me >everyone against me must be the same person lel
Ryan Perry
shut up you moron
Michael Morris
>what's inspect element??????
Ryan Gray
You can waste your time with the green and yellow team, but everyone knows red and blue are the only ones which matter.
Isaiah Morales
other guy here, fuck off nigger
Caleb Hill
You dont have to believe in labels. Nobody is 100% leftist. But if i had to describe you with one word i would say "Libertarian"
Levi Young
>that evidence must be forged there's no way my wild assumptions could be wrong lel
Elijah Rodriguez
It's funny how people whine about how red and blue are both god awful to be apart of, but then discount any other team as irrelevant. Almost like they enjoy the suffering.
Jason Cox
smart people are more likely to be left wing
Dominic Cook
>>that evidence """"""evidence""""""
Andrew Richardson
I'm pro guns but tend to be left of center for everything else to one degree or another. Generally disagree with all the privacy invasions and spy programs that liberal politicians tend to be supporting as well.
It makes voting hard since I don't base my choice on any single issue. And most Libertarians are fucking insane anarcho-capitalists.
Easton Gomez
no you fuck off back to your shithole
Isaac Campbell
>privacy and spy programs that liberal politicians I seriously hope you don't believe everything you just said. Our new President wants to ban encryption because of Islamic terrorism, as well as shut down parts of the internet he doesn't like (again, because terrorism), AND wants to silence dissenters.
Jaxson Scott
Yes then it's leant to rich people so poorfags can suck dick for tips
Are the majority of your conservatives rabidly anti-gay like the ones in the US tend to be? Cause most of the ones in my country don't even bring it up (partly because they lost that war like 10 years ago in Canada).
Connor Morgan
>implying that's evidence
Henry Morris
How flustered are you right now?
Ryan Watson
Yes, most conservatives are very anti-gay.
Juan Smith
>french >anti-gay lol
Camden Jenkins
You first, retard
Nicholas King
I'm not.
Carter Morgan
I'm Canadian, and the Liberal party still hasn't repealed the spy program brought in under Harper. And I think it's the liberals (labour?) who are championing the anti-encryption cause in the UK or Australia.
But I'm well aware of Trump's many bad opinions on the matter, and don't like them.
Why do I feel like Canada is the only country that isn't fucking crazy, whether the government is left or right?
Connor Parker
Good because all these posts were actually me
Ryder James
>Canada isn't fucking crazy
Grayson Myers
Basically it's the "don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!" meme that people keep falling for in politics.
John Lee
Obama collected phone data on everyone in the US because of terrorism. He was also supposed to kill the patriot act instead of renewing it. The IRS targeted political groups. It's six of one half a dozen the other when you put up artificial limits on who you can elect.
Anthony Sanders
I wasn't implying that liberals don't enact spy programs. I was stating that both the left and the right want to take away your rights. ~95% of voting Americans willingly voted away more of their rights because of memes, "the lesser evil," racism, hatred of the other candidate, etc.
Benjamin King
Canada's "Social Justice Tribunal" is perfectly sane. Your leader saying he likes the simple dictatorship of China.
Ethan Butler
>let me just take this quote completely out of the context it was in Ya know I was going to go on about how that comment is obviously about diplomacy, and that it's being taken out of context... but here's the funny thing...
I CAN'T FIND A SOURCE FOR THE QUOTE AT ALL!!!
Not a fucking news article or youtube clip. I suppose I really shouldn't be surprised that it's bullshit.
Blake Moore
I've never seen a Canadian defend Trudeau before. I didn't think anyone actually liked him.
Aiden Fisher
>using free software is liberalism and left wing
In case nobody told you to kill yourself today, I going to be the first.
Christian Rodriguez
Fair enough then. It's entirely possible Trump will get shot before he does 1 year let alone 4. (don't waste your time nsa)
Dominic Bailey
Trudeau is fucking insane, don't pretend he isn't. Bernie Sanders is considered the hard left-wing guy in the states, and he's Ronald Reagan compared to Trudeau. Our own prime minister said he admires China's communist dictatorship, and called Fidel Castro a friend of the Trudeau family, expressing great sadness when he died. He brought in tens of thousands of refugees when there were very few resources to teach them English/help them integrate, and now most of them are jobless and a drain on the economy. And all of this is on top of deficit spending, affirmative action in his cabinet, and just generally being a smarmy, condescending douchebag. He may not be trump, but let's not pretend we didn't also elect a celebrity with very little political know-how, just like the states did.
Landon Ward
I don't like him, but making up blatant lies and then using them to push a political agenda is the sort of thing the right claims to be above.
Landon Lopez
Again don't really like Trudeau, but feel it's important to address some of the outright bullshit.
His cabinet, as 'horribly' diverse as it is, is filled with qualified people in pretty much every appointment.
Castro came to his brother's funeral after he died in a fucking skiing accident. That's the sort of thing that only family friends do.
The refugees are actually integrating well, for the most part, both in regards to employment and enlgish.
And Harper only managed to keep his budget balanced by lying about how much stuff was, and forcing government offices underspend their budgets at the cost of cutting services.
The China thing was fucking dumb though.
The thing is we're lucky that the Canadian PM doesn't have the same kind of power that the US President does, he has to have the backing of his party and he didn't get to be leader without making some deals with the more senior and politically pragmatic party members to get where he did.
One thing I found interesting (don't really approve or disapprove so far) is that when he appointed 9 new senators recently, while their backgrounds sounded generally liberal, they had no political affiliations.
Ryder Young
I'm not sure if Sup Forums could really be categorized as left or right. It cares a lot about certain issues (like net neutrality), and the left seems to be more likely to care about these issues (because silicon valley is leftist, and they care about these issues), so there's more love for Democrats here than Republicans, but it's not exactly a totality. If you've ever looked into an Every Day Carry thread here, you'd see a lot of gun owners. There's also a bit of SJW hate here, although simultaneously a lot of Sup Forums hate.
Because in 2012/13 we linked Reddit to our board and now it's full of Apple keyboard scarf wearing problem glasses Fawkes warriors spamming bsttleststion threads.
It's an endless cesspool of bitching about which jew product of the month is faster or what loonix system died and we gotta fork "x" for the 500th time because it requested something.
Fucking retarded, worst thing is if you ask for help people will leave their containment threads justbto bitch and spam "don't hand feed".
Xavier Sullivan
>I'm a gun totin', red meat eating conservative.
Eating more than 100g of red meat a day can cause cancer. I know it's delish but ya gotta be careful, mk?
Adam Adams
Oh, but you are sooooo wrong.
Elijah Collins
Reminder that low test faggot beta males are more likely to be left wing, really makes you think.
Only the simple minded or those looking to control others feel the need to categorise everybody into ideological groups. Either way you should cut your wrists.
Aaron Parker
This is why I get my protein from sustainable semen.
Jordan Cooper
How much wetter is it?
Adam Rodriguez
>why is a libshit website full of libshits?
Liam Fisher
Younger population but besides that its general population
General population don't investigate politics beyond major headlines
Most normal, young people have nothing vested in politics and see it more as an identity than anything. They're more likely to just go along with whatever view is common in the media they consume andhang around the same types of peope.
Ayden Kelly
>What USEFUL things can someone who knows C/C++ do with a raspberry pi (Model B)? Mines collecting dust atm. Start a political discussion on a technology forum.
Ryan Young
The world does not revolve around French politics
Samuel Reed
The software comunity has the philosophy that if somthing works you stick with it. Capitalism .Net had like 3 revisions en less than 10 years, compare it with C and you will see what i mean.
Open Source: -Biger comunity (Wingafs cant hire that amount of programers) -Better maintained -Better documentation (Not hiden behind a paywall) -Support service: they wont tell you to buy the newest software release - No bubble efect: You make some software and with litle adaptations you will be able to use it on all platforms, good luck doing the same with Objective-C
Ryan Peterson
>Sup Forums is leftist WTF am I reading?
Sup Forums is filled to the brink with two camps: libertarians and neofascist "alt-right" memsters from Sup Forums
Neither of these are leftist.
Free software is about freedom, not about economic politics.
Christian Sanchez
Sup Forums being leftist
And that is where you're wrong OP. This whole site and it's connected culture have always been the opposite of the "culturally accepted norm". Back when Bush was president this site was strongly left-wing, and due to the widespread normality of liberalism we're now right wing.
Liam Wright
>Back when Bush was president this site was strongly left-wing tell me more about that
Jayden Nguyen
I've been a cryptoanarchist since the 90s, radical class based left wing politics until today. I rarely talk about it here. Most problems that the right wing likes to attribute to conspiracies and the joos in reality have their source in economic issues that leftist theory identified and predicted decades ago. It also happens in the technological industry specially now that it has been taken over by the real world economical system and policy. For example, privately owned social media is nothing but the realization of capitalist mode of production in the Internet and the inherent degeneration of culture and information caused by it.
Henry Sanders
Software is not politics.
Leo Edwards
>reading comprehension
Jonathan Rogers
>he thinks world politics are effected by french politics ahhaha what a faggot
Gabriel Hughes
Poorfags are poor because they don't hate sucking dick enough to get off their ass and earn some money. Its not like money just falls into most rich people laps, i think this might shock you but.. they probably worked day and night to get where they are at and you are not entitled to any of that money. Im 19 and ive been working for the past 3 years because i didn't have the opportunity to go to college and by not being a liberal cuck i now make 22$/hr and can afford to save up for college and will continue to improve myself instead of sitting at home begging the government for my next meal. Enjoy your mediocre lives poorfags.
Lucas Rivera
>Python >back end language
Learn a real language thanks.
Elijah Lewis
>poorfags are poor because they are lazy >rich people almost always worked for their fortune You've got a lot to learn, kid.
Thomas Nguyen
>american """"politics"""" top zozzle
Juan Gray
Im sure i do but one thing is for sure, hard work pays and their is plenty of it out there.
Josiah Garcia
Sup Forums is a mix of libertarianism and national socialism. Don't let the redditors and normalfags who are here for tech support fool you otherwise.