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Influences

* Moses (1391 BCE-1271 BCE)

Solon (638 BCE-558 BCE)
Thales of Miletus (623 BCE-545 BCE)
Sun Tzu (544 BCE-496 BCE)
Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)
Jesus Christ (4 BCE-30)
Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

* Genghis Khan (1162-1227)

William of Ockham (1287-1347)

Constantine XI Palaiologos (1405-1453)

* Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

George Washington (1732-1799)

~~Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830)~~

File:Hamilton.png Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)

Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820-1873)

Henry George (1839-1897)

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

Friedrich Hayek (1889-1992)

Karl Popper (1902-1994)

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Lee Kuan-Yew (1923-2015)

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)

Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Anthony Giddens (1938-)

File:Biden.png Joe Biden (1942-)

Bill Clinton (1946-)

Francis Fukuyama (1952-)

Tony Blair (1953-)

Robert D. Atkinson (1954-)

Barack Obama (1961-)

* Andrew Yang (1975-)

Michael "Vsauce" Stevens (1986-)

Joseph "Kraut" Lancaster (?-)

File:BrtiMonkey.png BritMonkey (2001-)

(WIP)

Philosophy

Politics

Civics

I support a model of semi-direct democracy, where the people can vote in referendums while also being able to draft up referendums themselves (requiring millions of signatures to be voted on nationally), while there is also an elected parliament with a Prime Minister as the most powerful position, supporting a parliamentarian system. There can be referendums to amend the constitution and also referendums against laws passed by parliament, allowing the people to be a counterweight, especially when it seems like parliament/court is against the interests of democracy/liberty (take the US Supreme Court). This model is similar to that used in Switzerland.

Finally, I support the implementation of

STAR voting, a voting system which will serve as the replacement to dominant voting systems like proportional representation and first past the post, among other voting systems. You can rate candidates from 0-5 with 0 being the worst and 5 being the best (this is for the single-seat variant). After voting is done, there are two finalists, those being the people with the highest score . I believe this system is more representative of the

people's will than any other system because of the details of such system. Afterwards, there is an automatic runoff round and the finalist with a higher score wins.

Economics

I believe in a Regulationist-Capitalist economy which is best exemplified through the ideas of the Third Way, Social Liberalism and that of Social Capitalism (social market economy). I support economic growth while also helping the people in a paternalistic way, meaning that there is a bigger emphasis on personal responsibility and there would be more equal opportunity for people, economic growth can also allow for scientific and technological progress, through encouraging of foreign investment, subsidizing businesses and cooperating with them through public-private partnerships. Overall, I support the following policies:

Yearly increases to the minimum wage adjusted to inflation, in order to placate the workers and alleviate the cost of living crisis.
Promotion of public-private partnerships in the infrastructure and manufacturing sector.
Create ESOPs within corporations, with the government becoming a shareholder in businesses to represent the interests of the workers, allowing for a tripartite system of class collaboration.
Support and promote yellow unions as a mandatory alternative to regular, red unions in order to further promote values of collaboration between capital and labor and to reject class struggle in order to make workers strikes way less common while also ensuring worker rights.
Allow for free trade with liberal democracies, expanding trade agreements like the TPP to be more global, allowing for high levels of economic growth and maintaining of the liberal international order.
Support pro-big business policies while at the same time allowing for some pro-startup policies like small business tax credits, even if minor compared to the corporate welfare to big business.

Welfare

I believe that we need to reform the welfare state as to prevent leeches from developing and to give it out as a way to give poorer people who were born into terrible conditions to rise up through the social ladder, allowing for equal opportunity. Welfare should only reward those who actually want to do something with it, not those who just use it for nothing.

As such, I support reforms to welfare, one such reform being workfare, giving it only to people who work, allowing for people who truly want to climb up the social ladder to receive it while also lowering unemployment, allowing for higher productivity and economic growth. Subsidies would also be given to job training & education in order to create an educated populace while also having skilled workers in the information & technology economy that is coming. Overall, I support the following policies for welfare reform:

Requiring that welfare be given only to those who work, through a system known as workfare.
Implementation of a 1,000$/month universal basic income (UBI) during the period of automation, it being much more effective than regular welfare.
School vouchers that allow poor children to attend private charter schools.
Increase funding for File:Construction.png vocational education.
Build government-owned houses for the homeless/needy with little restrictions.
Loosening of zoning laws in order to allow other houses besides single-family homes to be built.
Mandatory private health insurance with a public option and subsidized premiums for the poor.

Taxes

During times of economic growth, I support balanced budgets so as to not have high levels of debt as percentage of the GDP as high levels of debt can be bad overall and is a sign of overburden from bureaucracy. However, when there is a recession the government will have to intervene in and implement policies of economic stimulus, allowing markets to recover from such crashes.

While I don't support balanced budget amendments, I do believe that after a recession the government should balance its budgets again while it had done deficit spending during the recession. The way the government will ensure that budgets can be balanced while at the same not impoverishing the people and cause massive austerity, I support the following policies:

Implement a land value tax (LVT), a tax on the unimproved value of land that will make more land use more efficient while also making natural resources financially efficient. It can also generate a lot of revenue for the government.
Overhaul the welfare state through workfare, as said above, in order to make it less expensive and actually useful.
Implement a progressive value added tax from 15-25% that will be based on how expensive a good is, allowing for high revenues while not discouraging economic growth.
Levy other pigouvian taxes on things such as carbon, alcohol, drugs, gas and other such taxes that fall under this category in order to serve as a good source of revenue while also reducing consumption of harmful substances and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Education

I support a model of privatized education in the form of Charter schools, private schools which have government funding. These have proven to be far better than regular schools at promoting academic performance and just overall making students educated on topics, allowing them to become rational adults, which will be useful in a democratic system. Charter schools can also allow for students to learn in their own way and would benefit minorities such as African-Americans while not displeasing minorities such as Asians. I also support a school-time framework similar to that of Finland, there being a 4 hour and 15 minute school day from 9:45 AM to 2 PM with students not receiving homework, believing that these two models can be complemented. Such a privatized education system would also prevent the public union corruption present within public schools.

Along with this, I support

school vouchers as a way to allow poor students who were born that way to find schools and can have the same opportunity as a rich student to use their intelligence to get to a good field to work in and learn. Such voucher system will be based on attendance and academic performance, meaning that charter schools would have to compete for quality and positive student outcomes. However I reject compulsory attendance, with attendance either being high through school vouchers or through increased File:Construction.png vocational education funding, which would still make them useful for economic progress.

Eco-Technology

The world of fossil fuels is something we need to transcend, not only for environmental reasons but also for economic reasons. Anti-environmentalism technically cannot be forever profitable and as such has to be abandoned, preferably now. As such, I believe that we need to transition to a eco-social market economy, an economy which balances the needs of the environment, the needs of capital and the needs of people and while it may not reach this perfect "utopia" where all of these needs are completely balanced, we can at least get close to it. To reach the economic system known as ESME I support the following policies:

Heavily increase investments into clean energy sources such as nuclear fission/fusion alongside renewables in order to create economic incentives to transition away from the fossil fuel economy.
Implement an ecological tax, a form of pigouvian taxation that disincentivizes the emission of greenhouse gas emissions alongside reducing the use of non-recyclable plastics and other toxic substances/products.
Foster international cooperation on a never before seen level in the face of the climate crisis, by making all current climate agreements binding and to be mandatorily put into effect in all member countries (agreements like the Paris Agreement).
Legalize and encourage density-based development as an alternative to the current single-family model, allowing for things like duplexes, triplexes and other such houses to be built instead of single-family houses, as they have shown to have a smaller carbon footprint and prevent urban sprawl.
Design cities in a way that promotes public transportation and walkability over the use of cars/concrete roads, allowing for an increase in clean air in urban areas while also making flooding and heat waves less severe (through parks and other greenery).
Invest in CRISPR-related technology as it can be useful to solving the important problem of light pollution.

Mass Automation

I believe that humanity is currently in the midst of the 4th industrial revolution and it will be defined by a tendency of mass automation, where work in manufacturing and other unskilled fields would be replaced with machines. Mass automation will allow for large increases in production while requiring less working hours for the machines, as they can do things much quicker than humans. Mass automation is proving itself to be vital for our future, especially through things like the internet of things which will allow for an interconnected energy grid that is more efficient and effective compared to our current grid. However, I also recognize that the fallout associated with this will probably lead to a great rise in populist sentiment to a level we have never seen before, as such I support the following policies:

A universal basic income (UBI), which will serve as a way for people to still be financially well off in an era of mass automation, while also alleviating the social reaction that would come from the aftermath of this.
Investing massively into industrial automation as it can be the difference between a powerful economy and a economy based on foreign reliance (like the European Union) in the coming years and decades.
Such mass automation could not only be used in industry, but also in other sectors, even allowing for a potential machine-guided way to fix the problem of climate change, through bright-green environmentalism.
Machine learning can serve as a way to allow for a smarter, more educated populace as such systems will not be dictated by ones personal biases, allowing people to learn in their own way, thus allowing everyone to be educated.

Space

We have seen how highly funded space exploration has actually lead to technological advancement right here on our planet Earth, a few examples being cell phone cameras, GPS and cheap solar panels, which have proven to be useful in many things. As such, I heavily support increasing funding for space agencies worldwide, with funding making up 1% of GDP, up from 0.04% that it currently makes up compared to the world's GDP. So, governments around the world would dedicate 1T$ to space exploration per year instead of just 40B$.

With such high funding, we can allow for levels of space exploration never before seen, with us potentially creating nuclear-powered spaceships, which can get to destinations much quicker while not quickly running out of fuel, opening up the solar system to ourselves. We can allow for the search of non-human intelligence within our universe to be much better than it is today, we can allow our knowledge of the universe to expand and can even help us down here on Earth. We shall open the gates to the next frontier and as such I support the following policies:

Reform the Outer Space Treaty to allow for weapons in space and to allow for a united, Earth colonization of planets/moons within our Solar System and even exoplanets, such expeditions not being American or Chinese, but human expeditions.
Increase funding and education for space exploration as it can open up not just the next frontier of exploration and knowledge but also the next economic frontier
Allow for high levels of funding given to technological research in outer space, as it can give us new sources of energy which can give us new technologies we couldn't have even imagined were real and increase our level on the File:Kardashev.png Kardashev scale and other such civilizational scales.
Invest in space telescopes as they can not only help us discover new objects in the galaxy and universe but can also improve our knowledge about the universe and its history and just general scientific research about the universe.

CRISPR Gene Editing

I very much support CRISPR gene editing as while it does serve as a way to perfect our genes and giving the population "genetic cheats" that allow us to be smarter, faster etc. Besides all of these positive effects on humanity, CRISPR can also solve problems such as light pollution by creation bioluminescent trees that replace street lamps/light bulbs, allowing for ecologically friendly lighting that does not "fog" our skies, allowing us to see the stars again.

Artificial Intelligence

In my opinion, artificial intelligence is not really a danger and if it does end up dangerous, it is our fault and only our fault. I reject anti-AI ideas like that pledge to stop all AI development more powerful than GPT-4 and believe that we should not regulate AI but rather integrate it in order to improve ourselves in the end. As such, I support the following policies:

Increase funding for artificial intelligence, as it will be the main thing which will determine whether autocracies or democracies are to triumph economically and politically in the coming decades.
Integrate such AI into the economy through mass automation, which will be the greatest innovation in the history of mankind, even greater than that of fire itself, allowing for very high levels of economic growth and prosperity for all of us.

I also believe that even if we do somehow manage to regulate AI (which is basically near impossible at this point) it will be basically not just in vain but also detrimental to liberal democracy as countries like

China will catch up with the West and beat it into this race and through this they can achieve world domination.

LGBTQ+ Rights

I support the rights of LGBTQ+ people, believing that this is something they were born as and it means that they're free to have their identity. The reason why LGBTQ+ seem to be so "attention-seeking" is because they're countering their oppression. Keep in mind, there are more countries which criminalize LGBTQ+ than there are who guarantee their rights. I also support the rights of trans people and people which consider themselves non-binary.

Guns

I believe in a gun policy that is similar to the models employed in Switzerland and/or Canada. The purchasing of guns should occur after the age of 18 and initially you should only be able to buy small and weak firearms like rifles, however as you gain experience and through period checks that make sure you're a trusted, mentally sane user you can gain even automatic firearms like AR-15s but that's after years of checks to see if you're not gonna shoot up a school with it for whatever reason. With this I also support permits to buy guns, believing that these policies can be useful in reducing gun crime.

Drug Legalization

I believe that all drugs should be made legal and I support such an idea because not only it reduces profits from drug cartels, but also allows for proper regulation through taxation, rehabilitation and other such laws, allowing for a reduction in consumption not just from these but also due to the whole idea that consuming illegal substances makes you cool diminishing. I believe that soft drugs should have a minimum consumption age of 18/21 while hard drugs should have a minimum consumption age of 25.

Abortion

I heavily support abortion rights, believing that there should be no exceptions to abortion and believe that it is up to the mother herself whether she should have an abortion or not, recognizing that abortion is an important step in woman's emancipation. However, I do believe that things like contraceptives and other forms of birth control should be used over the traditional form of abortion. Abortion is also known to keep maternal mortality down and can actually be helpful in reducing poverty.

Prostitution

I support the legalization of prostitution and other sex work, believing however that they should be confined to state-owned brothels and if not should be confined to well-regulated private brothels which are to be heavily taxed so as to not result in a heavy increase in the rates of prostitution and to actually keep it in check. Such profits would go towards important like File:Construction.png infrastructure and the citizen's welfare so as to contribute to a society which has equal opportunity.

Euthanasia

I believe that

euthanasia should be legal and believes that people who want to perish should perish in a painless way and not through traditional means like suicide. I believe that the

right to death is one that should be respected and should not be infringed upon.

Free Trade

I am personally in favor of free trade, believing that free trade has been useful in lowering poverty and providing economic growth and opportunity. As such, I believe that we need to grow free trade, especially between liberal democracies as it can serve as a hub of improved relations between them and we can even help hybrid regimes as they can be more easily swayed to the democratic cause through free trade. As such I support the following policies (this is mostly in an American context):

Create a free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union that is similar to the tried but failed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Lower tariffs on American allied states such as Japan, Canada and the EU
Re-join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which was created as a means of containing China's economic influence over Eastern Asia.
Ideally create a Global Concordium, a free trade agreement between all liberal democratic countries and even some trusted hybrid regimes in order to put a heavy economic counterweight to China.

Relations

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I am judging you based on your ideology, not personality

Friendly

Brazilian Liberalism (///) - You have a very based ideology, combining policies of neoliberalism and social liberalism. Although, you don't really mention decoupling from China, that's probably because your foreign policy section is only about more internal South American politics. While your Amazon policy may be a little too extreme and your affirmative action is not something I really like, as we should only provide equal opportunity, as people are radically different so their outcomes would be different based on their decisions. Still, pretty good and we're pretty similar overall.
Tiberius Thought (///) - We have pretty similar economic policy overall and we are both progressive. The only difference between me and you is that you're just more authoritarian, despite this however we are pretty similar.
Neo-humanism (///)- You're essentially a more right-wing version of me and slightly more conservative and less internationalist. Still, we are similar overall and as such you belong in this tier.
Adamtheuseless Thought (///) - It's nice how you have a Pro-West foreign policy and are overall libertarian, but come on your economics are too right-wing, even for me. Seriously? The Austrian School? Overall though we're similar and I assume you're a Georgist? Although you don't really mention that.
Neo-Glencoeism (///) - It's nice how you have become more moderate economically and social capitalism sure is based, but man why do you have to be an authoritarian? While a Pro-West foreign policy and technophilia are based, I don't like the authoritarianism.
File:Omega1065.png Omegaism (///) - While you may be more nationalist and more moderate than me on social issues, economics-wise and foreign policy wise we're mostly similar (despite you probably being less interventionist than me). Still, pretty good ideology and fellow liberal!
Whiztaleism (///File:Patriot.png) - While you're more leftist than me and also seem to be more patriotic and also less pro-immigration than I am (at least according to the user page), you still have an overall good ideology in my opinion, your ideology is overall an ideology I can be friendly with.

Neutral

BERNHEism (///) - While we both love technological acceleration and your economics are actually not that different from mine, I do not like your totalitarianism (or at least, dictablanda) and ultranationalism is also something that I reject and I agree with the fact that race conflict is unnecessary and while this LGBT wave will die out, it will be after they get their rights. It only started because they began to be suppressed. I also (at least somewhat) agree with your stance on identity politics, surprisingly.
Aryan Monarchism (//File:Libfashsymb.png/) - You have some good parts, such as progressivism, libertarianism, the nordic model and the opposition to the culture war but you also have bad parts such as monarchism, authoritarianism, white supremacism and fascism. Overall, you belong in the neutral tier. You seem to be inspired by Woodrow Wilson for your ideology, with some differences obviously.

Hostile

Ganzism (///) - Bro what? Primitivism combined with ethnonationalism? Oh wait you're also an anarchist. Yea, good luck bringing us back to the stone age. We all know the clock shall eternally march forward, it is the only way and an anarchist place will always get invaded by a statist place if it isn't protected or just ignored by a statist country (or countries).
Meowxism (///) - You know, I think its obvious as to why I hate your ideology. Direct democracy is based but come on vanguardism? You also (even if jokingly) want to execute anyone you don't like? Also socdems prevented the spread of the red evil and that's based :troll:. Also, John Brown is indeed based! You have some good parts, but overall you're just like any ML, full of many bad parts.
File:SuperMarketcap.png Super-Market-Capitalism (///) - What the hell is this? An anarcho-capitalist? Well, you know why you belong in this tier. Although still internationalism is based although you're way too extreme on the progressivism and anti-theism, like seriously. And you know, I also don't like anarchism in general so... Also you like Hoppe.