Who am I?
Hi! It's the new politics-trail. My mission on Steemit is to support political conversations and posts, and to make #politics great again! Especially with the hardening of political fronts, I want to share my identity, so you guys can see my bias. Hiding your bias or even claiming you have none is counterproductive in a political discourse in my opinion. I am @thatgermandude. I am a socialist, but there are many ideas in nationalism and libertarianism that I agree with. The only ideology I strongly oppose is “I say whatever my TV-Stations told me - without second thought”.
My policies
I will have a Zero tolerance for swearwords. Even if they sometimes seem to fit so perfectly, I urge you strongly to avoid them. Profanities are never necessary for an argument. This might seem harsh, but I don't want to draw any blurry lines. To be clear: This will lead to me not upvoting. It will not lead to me flagging your posts. I might even comment and tell you “hey if you could get rid of some of the strong language, I would upvote”.
It is rough to define politics. For me politics is a discussion about values and goals, this can be done on many different topics. But in general I will prefer to promote the traditional political discussions about recent events, speeches, actions of countries and ideology, but don't be surprised if your discussion about “hierarchies in the world of cooking” gets promoted by me .
I love arguing. A good discussion culture is invaluable to me. Please never be afraid to be part of a discussion. There are stupid questions, but stupid does not mean bad! Excluding people because they are not from a well educated background is one of the banes in todays politic debates to me. Personally I even prefer when people can bring their point across in simple language instead of hiding behind big words.
Thanks to @kralizec we have a politics ad, check it out and use it if you want to.
Good post I'm a noob and I like your style!
thank you, mate. Much appreciated. Looking forward to see your contributions to #politics !
I'll show you my bias if you show me yours...
you nasty boy :3
I'm following you to know you better. Feel free to connect with me @lulita 😀
Hi lulita, you share very interesting thoughts on your blog. I followed back! Looking forward to your contributions to #politics :)
Thank you. I'm looking forward to yours as well.
So I thought about topics to talk about and I think I found one: Cultural Identity. I am not a big Lauren Southern Fan, but she made a pretty interesting video on the topic
It is strange that @laurensouthern did not post this on Steemit
What is your culture? Do you see yourself as part of a larger group or as a completely independent individual? Do you think culture is something you should embrace, just acknowledge or even try to get rid of in order to have more harmony around the world?
I will make a post about Cultural Identities today or tomorrow, but I thought I let you know. Maybe you got some interesting ideas on how to tackle the subject?
Seems interesting, i am following
thank you, followed back. Looking forward to see some politics on your blog :)
Hi, the world is not a happy place under politics. Research UBUNTU ' a world of freedom, commonsense and community, the only true way to happiness
I had ubuntu on my hard drive and at work. It is a pretty solid OS..
I heard there is something about that name. Maybe I will make Ubuntu one of the cultures/philosophy in my series about cultural identity. Do you have some literature/data on it?
Michael tellinger is the main man involved, you can check out the details on the Ubuntu website, I simply became a active member here in Australia, my goal is to implement the fundamentals here in a rural area, getting the wheels moving for the future people.
Interesting, I will look into it. Thanks for sharing.
too easy
https://steemit.com/politics/@politics-trail/let-s-talk-about-culture-1-ubuntu
:)
there you go haha
Will be my first culture I present, do you want to make a featured article that I link?
Hello my friend
See you in politics!!
Hi, I am looking forward to see the politics in you! :D
There's a lot of politics going on here in the UK right now - we've just had a general election which was supposed to introduce some clarity and stability to the whole Brexit debate but most of us woke up on Friday morning to declare:
'What a mess!'
Whatever your politics I think most of us would agree that having a weak government is not in the country's national interest. I suspect we will be having yet another general election in the autumn as Prime Minister May will not last long now.... Thanks @politics-trail and good luck with cleaning up the image - no small task wherever you are based!! Following you now.
Hi @greenstar, I am German and the Brexit is an important topic to me, but I did not know that there is something going on right now, can you elaborate or point me to some articles about it?
I am generally in favor of Brexit and against the current EU.
Torys have a majority with DUP support. May remains in power but with a substantial loss.
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40236152
Congratulations @politics-trail!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following categories:
thanks, I was surprised by the big number as well. Feels good to get such a warm welcome!
Oh it's me? I am politics-trail?! Yes, I am! Feel free to contact me on my personal account if politics-trail does not reply.
Great introduction and Steemit is a great platform for this. I am looking forward to following you and engaging in honest debate from all perspectives.
Looking forward to debate with you, thank you for your interest.
Welcome to Steem @politics-trail I have sent you a tip
About time. ;)
Aye! I'm finally here :)
Ahaha! LOL
I wanted to say
Hello! We will see each other often then!
But I already see your Master regularly :D
Guten Tag, Herr Lennstar ;D
I am sure we need a sincere and deep discussion of politics here, not only memes. I believe this trail will be a success.
I like memes, but they are not part of political discourse. I am here to support discussions and serious political ideas.
Thank you for your trust, I will not let you down!
Sure!
Welcome and following! Looking forward to the discussions :)
thanks for the welcome. Looking forward to the discussions with you. I never met someone who actually practices witchcraft, your blogs about it look really interesting.
Thank you :-)
This is excellent. I post a lot about Australian politics, I can't wait to read more about your work. Definitely will be following along.
Hi Gohba, thank you very much for the resteem! I followed you as well. Did you hear about #teamaustralia? A friend of mine tries to strengthen the Australian community with this project.
Thanks mate. Yeah I'm part of #teamaustralia it's a great idea.
Awesome. Finally I believe there will be some good political discussions, instead of repeated privacy, secrets, propaganda things. Would love to see how much of your views match to mine. Welcome aboard Politics-trails!
I am hoping for good discussion. I found some Steemians in the past days that very much aline with my ideas, but I am happy for everybody involved in constructive discussions - no matter they agree with me or not. At least that is how I will try to do to make #politics a fair place for argumentation.
Did not really look at your avatar, but now I remember. We had a pretty good discussion under one of @dwinbloods articles! Looking forward to read your contributions to #politics!
Welcome.@politics-trail
hi, thx for the welcome
Welcome to steemit! I like to follow people all over the world, of all different ages. I read introduction posts and follow people who seem legit and real! You totally seem interesting! Following you to learn more about the world you live in and how you see it from your local perspective! I hope you will check out my posts too now and then!- @sircork - I've up voted and followed you!
thx mate, followed you too. I am looking forward to what you cotribute to change our world with the Steemit politics community ;)
I promise it will all be mostly true! And with a hard Anarcho-Capitalist Libertarian strain of seasoning applied!
Lovin it. My favorite author @dwinblood is an An-Cap as well ;)
Did we just become best friends? :D
forever mate! :D
is this a privately enforced contract? :)
Welcome to Steemit! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do! :-)
thanks mate, I am having a blast on my main @thatgermandude already. This is just an introduction for my Steemtrail account ;)
Welcome to Steemit. Now following you.
Thank you.
Welcome aboard @politics-trail! It will be nice to see and participate in some lively discussions about real politics! Who knows- maybe the next Martin Luther King Jr. or Ghandhi will emerge from our ranks! (Hopefully they won't be having to fight against rasism and apartheid because hopefully all that will have been irradicated by then! 🤞)
Lets erase them together! I have started a rather open discussion about race in German. We have discussed this topic for a long time in our country, so I wanted to start in the country that is also in the crossfire for bringing all the immigrants into Europe. I will start the debate in english after the german one comes to an conclusion.
Of course you are welcome to start the discussion in your own blog if you want to ;)
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"Steem is beautiful" ... Stop by and take a look.
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I am following, upvoting and featuring you.
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thank you brother, let's make steem even better together!
You are welcome to steemit! You will definitely enjoy it here!
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Cheers
Great idea, well done - all the best! And congratulations to the upvotes! You have mine as well of course!
the monetary value of your upvote might not be huge, but it has a lot of value to me. Thank you, buddy.
I am working on that topic (upvote might) as intensely as possible ...
As for socialism, nationalism, libertarianism and all other sorts of isms: That might be a very interesting "discussion", as most of more or less concious people at some period of their life ask themselves the same questions and come to different conclusions. But as you said: as long as an honest and open discussion of feelings, experience and personal opinions is possible, everything is fine.
that is one of my main goals. Most political discussions derail because people tend to get hysteric/emotional when you tell them a blunt thought that is on your mind.
If we can get over this, we will maybe see smart people like you contributing to the seeking of solutions. Don't get me wrong I love your sarcastic Satire, but at some point we need to come up with alternatives.
I don't get you wrong. The solution is within yourself. YOU are the solution. There is no solution coming from the outside which is going to solve the problems.
but I don't want to be alone :). Maybe I should coin the new word Communityist . Can't have enough of these useless neologisms, can we?
You won't stand alone, my friend. Never! Don't worry ... ;-)
wonderful post .upvoted .do follow back