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No one needs more than 500sqft of living space per capital until poverty is eradicated

War is absurd and the consequence of greed and senile, old, fucked up and immoral men

Democracy doesn't work without a limit on speech - specifically hate speech, authoritarianism, and ethnic superiority ideology

Fascism is the greatest concern of the western world right now

Genocide deserves instant disavowal and should convince any sane person to immediately support removing any government official or politician from office who doesn't oppose it

Black Lives Matter, and American history has treated black Americans awfully (see prison industrial complex)

Housing isn't an investment vehicle. Tax speculative purchasing of housing. Support government building high density housing like the HBD system in Singapore or Austria's housing system

I Believe in the Power of American Native

We believe in nothing, Mr. Lebowski.

It took me longer than I’d like to think of an answer.

Maths.

I believe in social democracy, I believe that it is the best political ideology.

It combines a free society with a government provided safety net.

I see communism as being too restrictive, and unregulated capitalism as being way too out of control.

A progressive social democratic country with a strong government seems to me as combining new ideas with a stable foundation.

Free will is an illusion.

Either as Hard determinism (60% confidence in this theory), or as in some form of Quantum randomness (40% confidence in this theory), you cannot just willy nilly pick something. Its just an algorithm, and, possibly, a little bit of randomness, if Quantum randomness is true.

A good cup of coffee and the universe does not care about existence.

I'm nitpicky about the word "believe". So let me rephrase: I do not believe. Either I know, or I don't know. Everything else are more or less informed speculations, assumptions or hypotheses at best.

Myself and Sasquatch.

Only that which has evidence to support it.

I believe what doesn’t kill you makes you…stranger.

These are some more lighthearted things, but here goes:

• Sonic the Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ) wouldn't be as fun of a game if all the bugs and glitches were gone. I live for a good glitch or six sometimes. Same without the highly difficult and janky super speed sections.

• Sonic Unleashed is an amazing game ( but the xbox/ps3 versions are the superior versions, as someone who has beat it on ps2 and xbox360 ).

• Due to the janky turn left/right movements on Sonic Lost World and just general movement jank, I am absolutely glad they have the run button to occasionally slow me down and stop me from dying.

• Also an extreme believer that the special stages ( on the 3DS version of Lost World ) are absolute cancer.

• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was nowhere near as good as The Wrong Trousers. I absolutely hated how they made Wallace absolutely incompetent and idiotic when it comes to normal things ( like how to use a non-electric tea pot ) when he didn't have any technology.

• Xbox style controllers with BAXY ( right, down, left, up ) button layout are the way to go. The only exception to that belief right now is my 3rd party wired switch controller because it has a headphone jack.

What can go wrong will go wrong.

Believing in something seems to imply thinking something to be true without having evidence for it - otherwise it would be knowledge, a justified true belief. So I know a couple things, like that I exist as a conscious being, and have practical empirical knowledge of the rest of the sensory world too.

• Humans are inherently lazy and mentally unflexible
• Humans are inherently evil and the veil of civilisation is really really thin.
• Humans are greedy in every aspect
• There are some exceptions,but the above applies generally

I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Evolution

That my dogs will aways be happy to see me

The indomitable human spirit

Communism.

• The universe and everything in it was made for a reason.
• The message of Jesus, while deformed and deeply mixed with Western nonsense by Rome (polytheism, pagan rites and an immature disregard for self restraint, to name a few), will serve as a basis to unite the West to the rest of the world (up until now it's behaved either as an armed landlord, a mob boss or a deranged killer, and that includes the European colonial project called Israel).
• People are fundamentally kind hearted and prosocial, but unexamined trauma, pettiness and immaturity, and an overall disregard for thought before action (a moral obligation, btw), keeps them from being who they were always supposed to be.
• Hard labels don't/rarely belong in this world, and never apply to people. If you wanna understand the universe and the people in it you're gonna have to understand them as a collection of spectrums/ranges, not as singular adjectives and nouns that are either meaningless or overly exaggerated.