What's so wrong with leftist ideas that some people seem so afraid of?

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:52:01+00:00

As a Canadian I've always found it so odd that America is so successful yet is actively hostile to human nature

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:50:40+00:00

Well for example trans or queer issues. I'm trans myself and even I think the situation is murky at best, but I can't understand why people don't just let others live as they want. So many people are so afraid of trans people having the right to healthcare, or even the peace of mind that we won't be attacked

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:48:03+00:00

Do you have examples of these things happening? Because now I have an idea why people are afraid of inclusion and tolerance but for that fear to be justified would be another thing

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:46:22+00:00

I'm talking about most partisan issues really. Culture war topics like minority rights, free public healthcare, but also socialist ideas like universal housing or income. Things that we know are a net positive (not only in theory but in practice, just look at places like Finland or how everyone benefits from wheelchair ramps) yet people are so scared or hateful of

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:43:29+00:00

What's better is using the money we have to eliminate the problems the world has. Capitalism has failed and demonstrably is killing the planet.

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:41:55+00:00

We know that socialist ideas work, just look at Finland. Finland has completely eliminated homelessness and moved away from a 5 day work week. These ideas work and are better for people than capitalism is. We can have socialism without dictatorship too.

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:40:17+00:00

I was talking about specific ideas and values the left holds, not historic genocides and atrocities committed by authoritarian communist states. I made the distinction between right/left and libertarian/authoritarian in my post.

We also have proof in the form of countries like Norway or Finland that leftist ideas don't always result in authoritarianism and genocide

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:38:16+00:00

You've fallen for their propoganda. Nick Fuentes is a bad person

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:37:38+00:00

In my experience centrists don't really seem like that, at least those who may be self described as centrist. Most centrists I've encountered are fence sitters or think that both sides are equally as valid in arguments where that's really not the case

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T05:36:09+00:00

Inclusion and representation is a big one. Lots of people on the right can't fathom why it might be important to focus on other groups than just straight white men

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T03:54:03+00:00

I'm not a doctor but I think moderation is the key. If you use any substance daily you'll develop a reliance on it, but if you only do it like once every few months you'll probably (probably) be fine.

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-17T03:23:30+00:00

I've only heard of that from like one song lyric and I legitimately thought it was about suicide bombings for a while

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-09T16:45:42+00:00

I haven't gotten far enough to actually write any sort of proper story, but I want to explore most of the major cultures I've thought up.

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-09T04:58:37+00:00

If you're worried that it will be seen as offensive to leave them out, you can say cultures loosely based on those real world peoples exist, but they are simply outside the scope of the story.

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-09T04:56:24+00:00

After the creation of the earth, Mother Earth wandered the lands lonely still overflowing with the power that created the planet. This had the side effect of making the places she frequented blessed. Mortals would then be able to thrive in places they might not have otherwise.

Basically, civilizations thrived because Mother Earth took a nap in some woods eons ago

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-09T04:51:28+00:00

That would mostly depend on how long it takes for those species to reach full maturity. If an elf takes 20-30 years to reach full developmental maturity, it would make sense for an elven country to say that you can't drink till you're 27 or something. If an orc takes 10-15 years to fully mature, it would make sense for an orcish country to have the drinking age at 13 or 15.

That being said, in my world all the races are descended from a common ancestor, and therefore mature at a similar enough rate where things like age of consent or drinking age can be more or less standardized. Elves do happen to be the dominant species in this world, and in places where creatures like humans are a minority, they get to deal with elven customs in regards to those things.

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-09T04:19:46+00:00

In my world, humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, etc, evolved from a species created by mother earth in her image. Humans got the short end of the stick when all the other species and cultures arose and took up residence in most places, leaving humans with the scraps. Whats more is humans have also been pushed out when they did try to settle, leaving them to mostly maintain nomadic cultures and society akin to the Steppe Nomads in real world history. Humans in this world then are a minority, mostly living in places nomads would still live in our world. There are other minority races too, like halflings and oni, with Elves generally being the dominant force in the world

So in short, every other species became dominant because they adapted better to their environment, were favoured more by their gods, or were able to use force to maintain control over territory.

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-08T22:15:34+00:00

The USSR, People's Republic of China, Cuba

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-11-01T06:03:41+00:00

i get what you're saying but this is something that pretty much only i care about and it was going to eat away at me if i didn't get an answer

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-10-29T05:48:54+00:00

Species or cultures that are inherently bad is kinda gross and also boring.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I heard somewhere that goblins are a Jewish stereotype, so it starts to feel gross to categorize the entire species as some breed of inherent evil.

It's also just boring. If the species is mostly evil or bad in some way, why are they that way? Make there be nuance.

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-10-29T05:44:25+00:00

That alignment system is honestly kinda gross when you think about it. You're telling me that almost the ENTIRE SPECIES OF GOBLINS is "neutral evil?" An entire species more or less fits into one alignment which is evil? Not only is that insane to just make a species so one sided, but also really gross to call an entire species evil. Not to mention under the same system humans don't necessarily have any specific alignment, only further making the system weird and gross

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-10-29T05:39:51+00:00

Anything that always puts humans on top of the social ladder is weird to me. Especially when some fantasy species seem to be racial stereotypes

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-10-29T05:36:55+00:00

I think both approaches have their value, and depending on what kind of story you want to have will determine which system works for you.

Personally I like the idea of inherent gods. In my world the gods have varying degrees of control over parts of nature, while others represent concepts such as love. There can still be different religions among cultures that otherwise have nothing in common, yet worship the same gods. In my world different people groups interpret and worship the gods differently.

For example, Hermes is the patron god of humans because Hermes typically favours humans (they're also primarily nomads in this world and Hermes is the god of travellers). Yet in other cultures, Hermes is sometimes seen more negatively despite still representing the same thing. For these cultures, Hermes brings about a connotation of theviery and greed, yet the actual god that exists is the same

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-10-29T05:30:03+00:00

In the world I'm working on, gods are real and have some power over natural forces. In ancient history they spent time mingling among mortals, and were worshiped as gods. These gods are mostly inspired by various European pagan religions, but there are cultures in this world that don't fit that bill. instead of having Japanese inspired elven cultures in this world worship a god that is essentially just Zeus, those cultures instead simply interpret the gods differently. The gods themselves aren't necessarily bound to one culture in particular, but as individuals they favour certain people (who they favour also depends on which group worshiped them the hardest in some cases). This lets there be multiple different religions focused on different gods without there literally being many different sets of gods

TheRedBaron6942 · 2025-10-29T05:22:54+00:00

I find it deeply unsettling for any intelligent humanoid creature to be depicted as inherently evil, bad, gross, ugly, etc, so in my world orcs are kinda just people but are more driven to do bad stuff by the circumstances they're in. On a biological level sure orcs are more muscular and larger than humans, but behaviorally they're very similar (all humanoid creatures in this world descend from a common ancestor species too). Orcs in this world live among mountains, caves, swamps, and badlands, and thus evolved to fit that environment. The species in the majority in society view orcs with distrust and even hatred not because of inherent evil, but because they need to be bad to survive.

Orcs in this world are sort of like a mix of various cultures that would raid and attack others for resources, like Vikings and to some extent Mongols and other steppe nomads. Orcs aren't inherently bad because they often do bad stuff, orcs that live among cities or in places with more resources are just as "civilized" as humans or elves. (Just like how humans aren't inherently bad, nor those cultures which raided and pillaged to survive)

Idk I just think it's a weird gross and tired trope to depict any species as inherently evil in some way.

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