UserWiki:Matteel

Hello, I'm Matteel. I'm your average social democrat roaming the internet. I would consider myself culturally left-wing, since a lot of my beliefs are aligned with the cultural left, but I'm more center-left and despise woke culture that is associated with the progressive movement. I would consider myself a paleoprogressive with these cultural views. If you want to find my ideological beleifs, go here: American Social Democracy. If you want to find my philosophical beliefs, go here:  Existential Mattism.

Personal
I'm a 19 year old male (as of December, 2022) who resides somewhere in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. I'm a Mexican American who is medically diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (autism) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Also, I'm Bilingual and can speak American English and Mexican Spanish. English is my native tongue and Spanish is the language I've been learning for a while now, although I don't speak it fluently but I'm proficient in it and I'll probably speak it fluently by the time of 2023 or 2024. Basically, I'm your average social democrat in terms of politics, there's not a whole lot to comment on. I've gotten into politics sometime during the 2016 election and playing strategy games like Hoi4, which I got into sometime during 2017. I've seriously gotten a political understanding of our climate into 2021, the only good candidate I consider in our current climate is Bernie Sanders, I obviously don't like the Democratic party and especially the Republican party, since both uphold the corpocratic status quo that we are currently living under that I so strongly resent. I discovered social democracy as a political ideology through a combination of playing strategy games and taking political tests, which every political test I've taken has yet to not label me as a social democrat because my beliefs have stayed largely consistent.

Likes/Dislikes
Likes Dislikes
 * [[File:Sexocracy.png]] Having sex
 * [[File:Sanders.png]] Bernie Sanders
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Classical Social Democracy
 * [[File:Paleoprog.png]] Real Progressives [[File:NatProg.png]]
 * [[File:Leftnat.png]] Self-Determination and Anti-Imperialism
 * [[File:Civlibert.png]] Personal Freedom
 * [[File:Cballalt-Japan.png]] Anime
 * [[File:Burgsys icon.png]] Hearts of Iron 4 and other strategy games
 * [[File:Fash.png]] [[File:React.png]] Political larpers & edgelords who don't leave their basements [[File:Altr.png]] [[File:Whitesup.png]]
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] [[File:Necon.png]] Genocide dieners [[File:Dengf.png]] [[File:ML.png]]
 * [[File:Copeservatism.png]] Modern day conservatism
 * [[File:SJW.png]] Modern day woke culture
 * [[File:Auth.png]] Oppressors of the people
 * [[File:Pinkcap.png]] The disease that is infecting the west [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]]
 * [[File:3way.png]] Modern "social democracy"

Creator Note
It's been fun here, but by the time you've read this, I've probably already have left. Why is this? Well, It's actually simple. This community is full of uninspired, bratty, larping political edgelords who would never last a single second in their ideal society. You get tired of seeing it after a while because it does take a mental toll on you, which can be seen with how some members within this community went from having relatively normal ideologies to becoming completely unrecognizable due to the toxic influences of this community. I'm not innocent by any means, I did regrettable stuff that I look back now on and cringe. However, I changed my behavior accordingly and learned from those mistakes I made in the past. You can't say the same thing about most of the political edgelords here. So, It's for the best I leave this toxic despot. I'll be happy and smoking the PCB pack once this community dies. Also, I want to thank that one neo-nazi whose name  I won't mention, the old folks here will remember the event that started during in between the start and mid of 2022. Looking back at everything, I genuinely laugh. I know it sounds weird saying this, because this would be one of the reasons why I would leave, but I guess I just have stockholm syndrome. Anyways, I eyed this community sometime back in January of 2021, and I actually had an account on the FANDOM site before it got 1984'd. I'll be leaving roughly 2 years after I first found this community. Am I leaving politics entirely? No, I'll go out and vote on ballot initiatives I deem important enough to vote on and read the news, but I won't be as involved as I was previously. So yeah, that's it. It was fun looking back at everything that has happened, being here has opened my eyes to so much political view points and I feel as if I came out as a better person because of it due to the fact that I know what to avoid and how to not fall down rabbit holes that don't serve my interests.

Political Timeline
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Family

 * [[File:Liberalsoc.png]] Sister
 * [[File:Soclib.png]] Dad
 * [[File:FemConserv.png]] Mom
 * [[File:Apolit.png]] Grandmother
 * [[File:Libertarian.png]] Grandfather

Political Phases
Apolitical Period (2003 - 2012)

I know, It's crazy. My childhood had no mention of politics because I wasn't even able to grasp the idea of politics. None of us start political and I was no exception.

Apolitical Social Liberalism Period (2012 - 2016)

I still didn't hold a good idea of what our political climate was, but I voiced my support for Obama's candidacy. This was largely because my parents were solidly blue voters, which obviously influenced a lot of my opinions at the time. Although, I lost interest after the election and stop caring up until 2016, but still held vague liberal ideas throughout this period.

Apolitical Social Democracy Period (2016 - 2017)

This is were my political journey truly began. When the election came around, I was old enough to understand our political climate in some limited contexts, which allowed to form the views I held on politics on my own. So, I found myself hating both the candidates Trump and Hillary. However, I found myself discovering politicians like Bernie Sanders who I found quite likable and agreeable. So, I followed them for a little bit until the election was over, which was when I went right back to being apolitical. However, my political journey doesn't end here obviously, because it all came tumbling down when I discovered political videos.

Alt-Lite Phase (2017 - 2019)

So, as much as a cringe looking back at this now. I had an alt-lite phase, this came from watching "anti-sjw" videos on youtube. So, as you can imagine, I was hostile to things like feminism and transgender people, but still thought abortion rights were cool. Overall, it was confusing and I really dislike this bit of my political journey, I was your average counter-culture atheist at the time who just didn't like political correctness.

Moderating My Views (2019 - Mid 2021)

After the shitstorm that was my beliefs during my alt-lite phase started to settle down because of the environment and mindset I was in shifted, I started to become less hostile to things like feminism and warmed up to progressive ideals. Although, I still hated things like political correctness and identity politics, but still found myself disagreeing with the majority of conservative view points. It was also around this time I stopped being transphobic. I just became way more mature in my beliefs, it was also around this time I watched some breadtube content which also influenced my ideas.

Progressive Social Democrat Phase (Mid 2021 - Mid 2022)

After warming up to progressive ideals for a long time, I started to go down progressive rabbit holes and became more socially progressive. I held progressive ideas on things like feminism, gay rights, and started to embrace things like multiculturalism. So, I was your average progressive, a self-described progressive left-populist social democrat. Although, I started to realize that I was abandoning my original beliefs when I started to buy into socially progressive idpol, which made me realize that I had to take a step back.

Modern Period (Mid 2022+)

So, as you can imagine, this is the modern period of my beliefs. I took a complete 180 to were I was previously, although I adopted some new ideals, and it felt really good to do so. It felt as if I betrayed some of my previous values going into the phase I did and I came out better because of it. I abandoned populism sometime during November of this year and adopted Georgism. So, I'm basically your average left-liberal, and that's the end of my political journey.

Basedness Quiz
If you want to know if you're on my good side ideologically, then you can take this quiz. Here's how it works, if you agree with one of the following statements, you get full points. If you partly agree, you get half. If you disagree, you get zero points. For example: I like cats (10), "I agree with this". You get 10 points.


 * A nation is defined by a group of people that share a common heritage and language. (10)
 * I oppose the Imperial powers of the West & East, and support diplomatic neutrality. (10)
 * I support LGBT rights. (10)
 * I'm a feminist who supports gender equality. (5)
 * A women has a right to abort a fetus because it is her body. (5)
 * Decriminalize all drugs. (5)
 * I'm an environmentalist. (10)
 * I support a semi-direct democracy. (10)
 * The individual should be free to desire their own passions and hobbies, free from all unnecessary coercion. (10)
 * The government should have direct state ownership over sizable parts of the economy. (5)
 * I support the welfare state. (5)
 * I'm a political reformist. (5)
 * I support secularism. (5)
 * Worker's should have the right to democratically control the workplaces they work at. (5)

Pages I've made

 * [[File:LGBTReact.png]] LGBT Reactionarism
 * [[File:CapAnti Clerical.png]] Anti-Clericalism
 * [[File:Anti-Socdem.png]] Anti-Social Democracy
 * [[File:Anti-Globalism.png]] Anti-Globalism
 * [[File:CultLib.png]] Cultural Liberalism
 * [[File:SocialProgressive.png]] Social Progressivism
 * [[File:FemboyNationalismBall.png]] Femboy Nationalism
 * [[File:Dem-CPC.png]] Congressional Progressive Caucus
 * [[File:SecLib.png]] Secular Liberalism
 * [[File:AtheistFeminism.png]] Atheist Feminism
 * [[File:ChristSocdem.png]] Christian Social Democracy
 * [[File:CosmoSocDem.png]] Cosmopolitan Social Democracy
 * [[File:RightSocDem.png]] Right-Social Democracy
 * [[File:LeftSocdem.png]] Left-Social Democracy
 * [[File:Ecoglob.png]] Environmental Globalization
 * [[File:ProgAth.png]] Atheist Progressivism
 * [[File:ClassicalSocDem.png]] Transitional Social Democracy
 * [[File:Socfem.png]] Social Feminism
 * [[File:Hedonsocdem.png]] Hedonistic Social Democracy
 * [[File:JewishAtheism.png]] Jewish Atheism
 * [[File:LibInternat.png]] Liberal Internationalism
 * [[File:Secular.png]] Secularism
 * [[File:Civilib.png]] Civil Liberalism
 * [[File:OldLeft.png]] Old Left
 * [[File:Atlanticism.png]] Atlanticism

Pages I've edited

 * [[File:Indiv.png]] Individualism
 * [[File:Hedonism-cloud.png]] Hedonism
 * [[File:ProgressiveInternationalismIcon.png]] Progressive Internationalism
 * [[File:Internation.png]] Internationalism
 * [[File:SJW.png]] SJW
 * [[File:Rwsjw.png]] Right-Wing SJW
 * [[File:Postmodernicon.png]] Post-Modernism
 * [[File:Anti-Semetic.png]] Anti-Semitism
 * [[File:PCB-Kanye.png]] Kanye Westism
 * [[File:Sanders.png]] Sandersism
 * [[File:Jewfem.png]] Jewish Feminism
 * [[File:Neoimp.png]] Neo-Imperialism