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  • How long have you gone without being in a romantic relationship?

    About 14 years (I’m 22).

    If you’re currently single: is it by choice or circumstance?

    Not by choice.

    Do you / did you enjoy single life?

    No.

    What are / were the pros and cons?

    Pros: More free time, less drama

    Cons:

    • I don’t get to experience what it feels like to be loved or to have any kind of intimacy (cuddling, kissing, sex, pair dancing, etc.)
    • It will be much harder to find affordable housing once I stop being a student
    • I feel excluded when my friends talk about their relationships
    • My parents are going to be disappointed
    • If I want to have children in the future (I’m not sure yet), it probably won’t be a possibility

    Is / was partnership a goal of yours?

    Yes, obviously.











  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgOPtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldWell, fuck you too.
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    10 months ago

    Some things I like from the left:

    • The general idea of changing things that are bad instead of sticking to traditions
    • Gay marriage and other rights
    • More efficient and affordable healthcare
    • Abortion (though ideally I’d find it fair if “paper abortion” was also a thing)
    • FOSS (though most people don’t have a strong opinion on that)
    • Public transportation

    Some things I like from the right:

    • General cautiousness about the negative effects of new policies (for example, schools catering to problematic students at the expense of the other students)
    • Trying to minimize unnecessary government intervention
    • Support of free speech (used to be a leftist thing, seems to depend on who is being censored more)
    • Cautiousness about illegal immigration
    • Banning of harmful addictive drugs

    And what I don’t like about either:

    • Takes on gender/race equality (left tries to achieve it but has a different idea of what equality looks like, right seems content with inequality)
    • Voter fraud prevention (right wants the requirement of a driving license or something, left wants no verification at all; I like the normal system of requiring an identity card that every citizen gets for free from the government)

    Based on these, I’d consider myself centrist or maybe a bit left-leaning, but the far left would consider me a Nazi and the far right would consider me a communist or something.

    Also note that I’m not from the USA and I see USA politics through the lens of what I know to work and not work in my country.