Politics and Religion

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(03-04-2021, 12:20 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: This paragraph pretty much tells me everything I need to know about how much time I want to spend here. (Answer: Not much)

Fwiw, I consider myself pretty moderate.  Of course, to describe myself as such it means I hold some conservative viewpoints.  I rather not share any of them here though if they're going to be interpreted as being mainly influenced by Fox News (basically that I've put no thought into them) and that they need correcting (I thought this was somewhere for conversation)

Judging from what I've seen in my short time perusing this part of the site, I'd say it's pretty rich for you to use the term echo chamber.

Oh well, I guess I'll have to miss out topics like those facists deliberately builing a stage out of a nazi symbol. (What a shame).

Well you're making more out of my post than was intended

I was speaking of the past, even though I wasn't here at that time, and speaking with someone else.
I was going off of my experiences of dealing with Conservatives from around that time when there was no OAN or Newsmax so I used Fox as a reference.
Most of the blowups that I've seen were from people believing everything Fox said, even though they would(and still do) push theories after they have been de-bunked or corrected. When the posters were corrected while parroting mis-information, they took it as a personal attack or an attack on their religious beliefs if it involved science.

I'm not a Democrat but I've admitted to leaning left, not because the Dems appeal to me, but because I have feared the right for around two decades.

I'm not a fan of the complete embracing of "the gays". I find the Baktarvy(sp?) commercial with the two guys kissing at the end to be disgusting and, like Trump, they're pushing to see how far they can go for future messages.

I don't like the "Anchor Baby" set-up where an American knocks up a foreigner or vise versa, the child is born here and now here comes every Aunt and Uncle, every Cousin and every Grandparent. I laugh when people complain how the area where they live is becoming too diverse for them. Try living in Anchorage Alaska sometime. It's very much like Portland. A liberal oasis and 15 miles outside of it is straight up Rednekistan for hundreds of miles. I live in Anchorage and run a radio station 45 miles north that I may have to wind up selling. ANYBODY outside of Anchorage that speaks ill of Trump (who was a lifelong Democrat until Obama became President) is considered a commie piece of shit.

I own land 165 miles and 215 miles south of Anchorage and it is straight up MAGA country with Confederate flags flying every 2 or 3 miles on the highway in the populated areas including at a restaurant next to a popular campground. If it weren't for music(I started up a friend's radio station there almost a decade ago), weed and my home brew(most of my friends there work at breweries), I doubt any of them would talk to me at all and I've been an Independent since I registered to vote in 1986. But with today's modern day Republicans, it's "you're either 95-100% with me or **** you"

I can't handle the Vagenda at CNN and almost all of MSNBC is too one sided for me. I find Fox, OAN and Newsmax to be embarrassingly ridiculous and an insult to journalism. It's not the facts they say, it's the facts that they conveniently choose to leave out that bothers me. PBS Newshour and BBC America are the closest to the old school news that I grew up on and they're both more left leaning than right but I try to watch a little bit of all of them that I can find.

I have no problem with most conservatism but I can't handle bullshit that people wish to be true or religion based politics. If they taxed the churches, then I'd have no problem with religion based politics. Until that day, I'm very much in agreement with separation of church and state.

Most of the people here have already read my stances, I'm not sure what you're afraid of discussing here. It's just an internet pseudonym. Create a second account or an alt-nym strictly for this forum if you're concerned about your username or your views being attacked.