Beryism

Beryism is the self-insert ideology of BeryAb. It is liberal, direct-democratic, economically center-right to right-wing, culturally liberal and opposed to conflict. Economically, he is inspired strongly by the, in particular Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell, though with a small amount of social aspects sprinkled in, while the social and cultural views are fully his own.

[[File:Fed.png]] Government structure
Beryism desires a democratic government structure, more so, a largely representative liberal democracy, but with tweaks to make the people have greater say in policy. Also known as semi-direct democracy, directly inspired by the  Swiss model. The system would, on one hand, be representative, as the more "objective" decisions, particularly those pertaining to fiscal and foreign policy, would be in the hands of politicans elected by representatives, whereas many social policies would be in the direct hands of the people to vote on. As this system is currently only availabe on German communal level, Beryism would want to expand it to the national/federal level. Furthermore, he supports federalism over unitarism. He thinks the states should be largely responsible for themselves, except, of course, for national security decisions and the likes, and most social policies, like drugs, should be left to the states to decide via mentioned referendums. Although he wants to largely leave it to the states up to decide, he wants to lower the voting age at state and communal levels to 16, and, despite some arguments regarding the "lack of maturity", lower the federal voting age to 16 as well. He thinks that barely any young people are voting anyways, and it's mostly the oldest people in society still voting into the other direction, so he wants to change that.

[[File:Cap.png]] Economy
Beryism strongly prefers a capitalist free-market economy. He thinks the market is the superior way of allocating goods, with no feudal lord or central planner making consequential long-term decisions that might end up firing backwards. The market will be quicker to adapt to change, as such. Fair and actual competition ensures that the populace gets the best possible prices. For the planned economy, he believes it will either find its way back to a market-based system, like in China, or collapse in itself, like many other places. He thinks autarchic economies such as those of Eritrea or North Korea are not something to strive for, as they create the most backward of pits.

[[File:Fiscon.png]] Taxation
Simply put, when it comes to taxation, Beryism believes that extraordinarily high taxes will reduce people's incentive to work, as most of their income would be taxed away regardless. With less money among the populace, that can result in a weaker economy. Some of his plans include:
 * Repeal the coffee tax, for he thinks it is a useless tax that will be made obsolete with less spending.


 * Repeal the beer tax, for similar reasons as above, as it is a niche tax on an everyday product.


 * Potentially cut even more consumption-related taxes, depending on whether the government can afford it or not.


 * Repeal the inheritance tax, because he thinks the person who gives the money probably worked hard for it, or his ancestors did, and he thinks it should be their conscious decision to let their heirs inherit it or not.


 * Flatten income tax to a mildly progressive if not flat rate, and keep it lowest for working and middle-class people.


 * Introduce a slightly heftier carbon tax for large CO2-emitting corporations, something that will be explained later on. (This would not affect corporate tax, as he does not want to drive away investment.)

[[File:Fiscon.png]] Fiscal Policy
Beryism is generally fiscally conservative, but open to pragmatism. He prefers a more balanced budget, spending less on maintaining the broken social security system, the terroristic military, biased state media, and instead using the money more efficiently on a baseline medicare programme and digitalizing/modernizing the German education system. He believes that the current welfare state, that is mostly referring to social security, is way too inflated and has too many people living off of it, even when given the opportunity to work. He wants to cut social spending, and reduce social security to its essentials. In essence, he proposes limited, curtailed social security, for those who truly need it, such as disabled people, or those that were recently fired. He believes that the German public broadcasting system (ÖRR) is obviously a mess and needs reform. First of all, he thinks the taxpayer is paying way too much money in financing this stuff. Many of these taxes, he says, are being spent on entertainment programs instead of anything meaningful. He believes this should be in the hands of private suppliers. That being said, most public broadcasters would be privatized, to curb spending, and to relieve the taxpayer's wallet. However, basic news broadcasting would remain, as everyone should be informed on what is out there. He favours a universal healthcare system. Although he recognizes that the American healthcare system is not very free market either, but rather is a consequence of crony capitalism. Under a free market healthcare system, there would be different, independent suppliers competing to find the best possible prices for their customers, so he thinks that is important to consider. Despite that, he sees it as more pragmatic to sustain a universal healthcare system, as the world's most prosperous nations all feature proper public medicare. The baseline program would be available for every citizen, but if an individual desires to opt out and access higher standards of medical care, and/or has to do so (as in, cannot afford to wait in lines, due to a very serious injury, for example) then he thinks it is their very good right to do so.

[[File:Regulationism.png]] Regulation
In the vast majority of cases, Beryism thinks price control regulations are a short-term, unsustainable solutions to deeply rooted problems. Politicians, especially populists, like making lots of promises that they're going to cap the prices of a service or a product. Rising prices are not always a sign of a corporation's "greed", but rather of changes in supply and demand. And when politicians want to lower the "costs" of certain services or programs in order to make it "more accessible", what they really mean is that they are going to lower the prices. The supplier's costs (material, workers/employees, time) remain the same, and only make it so that the overregulation effectively ends up in the employees getting underpaid. Despite all of that, he believes it is incredibly important that there are regulations to keep the competition fair, most notably in regards to worker's rights; workplace safety, a sufficient amount of annual leave/vacation for employees, and a suitable minimum wage (though one that is not too high). It must also be made sure that suppliers of goods don't just put in their products whatever they want, they ought to make sure their orange juice makes no one die of dysentery.

[[File:Ecocap.png]] Environmental Policy
Beryism recognizes man-made climate change as a real thing (dun-dun-dunnn!). However, he believes that a strong economy is not to be damaged, because giving heavy, sudden blows to the economy for "environmental purposes" will make many people's lives terrible, as they will have less to eat, earn less in general, et cetera. Nevertheless, economic crises are very much able to be reversed, this isn't necessarily the case with environmental damage. That being said, Beryism rejects a purely restriction-oriented environmental policy, he believes it's better to make use of market instruments to combat climate change, such as emissions trading and introducing aforementioned carbon taxes. He thinks the small revenue generated from those carbon taxes can also help us invest in research for technology, which can serve as a tool for combatting climate change.

[[File:Civlibert.png]] Social Policy
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[[File:Cball-EU.png]] Transnational Alliances
Beryism doesn't view the EU as a fundamentally bad idea. He is in favor of the Eurozone, the Schengen agreement as well as a common market. Nevertheless, he is a soft Eurosceptic, opposing further integration and  Eurofederalism in particular. He finds it unfeasible for similar reasons as World Federalism, he states that you can't represent the desires of all nations, let alone individuals, on such a large scale, without an ungodly amount of centralization. To him, the logical conclusion of such a thing is either a centralist bureaucracy that uses violence and coercion to stay in power, or a truly weak union that falls apart in a matter of years or even months. Ideally, Beryism wants the EU to back away from national affairs, such as immigration, healthcare, social policy and employment. In particular, he finds the idea that the EU can just redistribute immigrants among member states how they please ridiculous. Immigration should remain a national affair, though it is acceptable and good to him if the countries engage in voluntary discourse on how to handle major crises. If this decentralization is done, then, the EU can better focus on technological development and security. Beryism opposes NATO, as he thinks the alliance is far beyond its days. Now, the alliance doesn't serve much purpose besides terrorizing the Third World. So, since NATO is rotten to the core to him, he ideally wants Germany to leave it. But he would not mind a new alliance focused on true self defense, not playing the global cop.

Relations
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Based

 * [[File:TheIced.png]] Icedism - My Indian counterpart, sweet! Your ideals seem quite good to me, I'll have to watch your page development for a while though.
 * [[File:M4RKAru.png]] M4RKAruism - Good all around. Free markets and mixing patriotism with international co-operation is very nice. There is some stuff here and there that makes me think a bit, but you are deserving of being up here.
 * [[File:MattBall1.png]] Mattism - Basically as left-wing as you can get while still being tolerable. Too left economically, the welfare state shouldn't really be worshipped. But what can I say, our basic principles and goals are the same: Liberty, democracy, secularism and progress. And you're not a socialist, so that's good.
 * [[File:Capacitationism2.png]] Capacitationism - Basically if lib-unity was one person. We have many, many mutual beliefs, and the one major thing we probably disagree on is property rights. Overall, keep it up, though.
 * [[File:Aaron.png]] Aaronism - Best socialist, to be honest. Now, while I agree that the individual should be free to pursue his own destiny, separate from any sort of cultural or "moral" agenda pushed by the government, I'm not so sure on ideologizing hedonism. Enough said, we agree on most things, and that's nice.

Pretty Based

 * [[File:Tomjazz.png]] Tomjazzism - Surprisingly awesome for a socialist. Markets, environmentalism, progress, direct democracy, nicerinoes!
 * [[File:Cflski.png]] Celfloskism - Honestly, you're fine. Too far left economically, too etatist, and supports the alter-globalization sham, which is sad. But good for being a democrat and a cultural liberal, among some other things.
 * [[File:Chirotesla.png]] Chiroteslaism - Another social democrat, not the worst our world has to offer. I don't like that you're a Eurosceptic, and you have similar problems to Scarlet in regards to economics; this is what causes stagnation. But otherwise, you're fine. Also good job on being actually progressive, unlike some of your acquaintances.
 * [[File:EvolvingSoc.png]] Evolutionary Socialism - We have many common beliefs, such as cultural liberalism, a foreign policy mirroring a healthy mix of internationalism and patriotism (aka maintaining national sovereignty and respecting that of other peoples), and direct democracy, although it ends with workplace democracy for me. Your proposed form of welfare state is not something I would support either. But I can see myself not wanting to kill myself if you were to take power.
 * [[File:SomeCrusade.png]] SomeCrusaderism - You're quite alright. I agree with your fiscal policy, and your stances regarding racial issues. Now... that drug policy, nah, man. Furthermore, I think it's interesting that you want to leave weed and same-sex marriage to be left to the states to decide, that shows the lack of federalism we have here in Germany.
 * - JoeyFloppaism, but a little less scary, it seems. You're a bit too laissez-faire, there's too much Austrian economics leaking from your economic policy, and you're unnecessarily harsh on LGBT folks. However, you are an anti-communist, anti-authoritarian, against censorship, and you sometimes speak German for no particular reason, which is based.

Mixed

 * [[File:Amdist.png]] American Distributism - You have gotten culturally even farther right. What is good is that you seem to appreciate racial equality dearly. What's less good is that you are unnecessarily homophobic most of the time. You need to be more skeptical on nationalization, it rhymes with stagnation for a good reason. And "degeneracy"? Really? Don't go full rightoid.
 * [[File:Corplibswap.png]] Left Corporatocracy - Honestly, why corporatocracy? The consequences of such a system would be similar to a command economy, except you have corporations co-operating with the government to set the most exploitative prices possible. But otherwise, you seem to follow liberal principles, even if you are too lefty for my tastes.
 * [[File:Admiralism_Icon.png]] Admiralism - Very similar quirks and problems as Scarlet, I think you almost went a bit too deep into the anti-imperialist rabbit hole. Your nationalism is a bit worrisome, though nothing to scream about. Also, you focus way too much on non-issues, such as "wokes".
 * [[File:Typicalfan2.png]] TypicalFan1 Thought - Cringe Mexican AfD stan (never thought I'd ever say that) and "anti-SJW". Economics seem good, albeit ill-defined, social views could be a lot better, isolationism is not beneficial either, but at least you don't feel like bombing Iraqi orphanages. Overall a typical alt-lite; bad, but not making me want to commit alt-die.
 * - Yes, morality is subjective. No, we should not fully reject it. Good for being an anti-authoritarian individualist, but taken to a frankly horrifying extreme. Many based takes, but philosophically, we are miles apart.
 * [[File:TIMUAAAism.png]] ThisIsMyUsernameAAAism - An ancum and a socialist. But despite that, not only do we get along, you also have many cool cultural takes, you hate authoritarian socialism, you support rehabilitative justice, the main problem is the gift economy taking the place of the market economy.
 * [[File:Ultro.png]] Ultroneism - Very similar to Councilguy, with many of the same quirks, and the one who started the egoist revolts of PCB. Your criticisms of morality are interesting and might get me to read Stirner one day, I have the ability to read the original version, after all. But otherwise, yeah, many disagreements, but you are no authoritarian.
 * [[File:ChronicFemcel-newicon.png]] ChronicFemcel Thought - Ack! Another anarchist! So basically, similar to Ultroneism and Post-Councilism. You're socially progressive, which leads us to agree on many things, including that the "Old Left" is kinda stinky doe. But you dislike democracy and hate the free market, so yeah. But you are a very pleasant acquiantance.
 * [[File:JoeyFloppa_boo.png]] JoeyFloppaism - Neo-afunhumaninterism, but a bit scarier. Your economic policy is alright, though a bit too far, again, you're Austrian and not Chicagoan. Your foreign policy is a terrible mix of isolationism and imperialism. You are way too conservative, and I don't see how you are an individualist, either. But you are a fellow liberal, and perhaps worth cooperating with.

Pretty Cringe

 * [[File:Bmanthought.png]] Bman thought - Marxist-Leninist with nationalist and command economy characteristics. Big yikes from me. However, based LGBT rights, secularism and anti-imperialism. Though within a backward system.
 * [[File:R-i.png]] Neo-Bannnedism - Glad you're back, but your ideology is as horrifying as ever. You seem to have given up republicanism and replaced it with authoritarianism. But you are slightly less anti-semitic now. What's more, you aren't racist. But otherwise, your policy isn't my cup of tea, to say the least.

Cringe

 * [[File:GenShrekf.png]] General Shrekretary Thought - Basically my polar opposite on every issue, besides race. Unironically looks up to Stalin, favours a command economy (why), is populistic and disdains free trade. Goes here for obvious reasons.
 * [[File:NeoImmorx.png]] Neo-Immorxism - Overall a very unpleasant ideology, syndicalism is like putting the bus driver in charge of managing his firm. You say you are democratic, but you have a tendency towards being very undemocratic to those you oppose ideologically. But, in all fairness, I'll have to see how your page will develop for your part regarding democracy.
 * [[File:Noctua.png]] Noctuaism - A Frankenstein's monster of an ideology; claims to be an anarchist, wants to kill people he disagrees with. Your views are fueled by nothing but hatred and bloodlust.
 * [[File:Cheesenism_(PB).png]] Cheesenism - An authoritarian theocrat with no respect for the individual's dignity. Don't know, but it feels like you tried to combine almost everything wrong with this world and cram it into one. But hey... you hate commies, that's cool.