• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Conservativism isn’t a set of policies or ideologies, it’s the notion that you are good so therefore whatever you want is also good. It is narcissism wraped in a flimsy coat of stoic resistance to change. The facade falls away the very moment any conservative is affected personally by any particular issue.

    Pick any ostensibly conservative issue, and you’ll find conservatives flipping on that issue whenever it is convenient. And that’s not because all conservatives are hypocrites, it’s because all conservatives believe that they, as individuals, are the final arbiters of right and wrong. They believe that they can determine what is good and what is evil with absolute certainty at any level of nuance.

    That’s why they will oppose abortion rights, and then have their own abortions without a hint of self-awareness. That’s how they can spin yarns of their hardworking immigrant parents or surviving with the help of social safety nets, and then pull up the ladder behind them for the next generation. It’s how fiscal conservatives increase spending and raise taxes for most people while decrying spending on critical infrastructure and foreign aid.

    That’s why a nutjob like RFK Jr. sounds like a conservative, even though he wouldn’t use the term to describe himself. The man doesn’t have principles, he has a list of conspiracy theories that he uses to drum up attention.

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      Conservativism isn’t a set of policies or ideologies, it’s the notion that you are good so therefore whatever you want is also good.

      Glad to know I can just dismiss you as intentionally ignorant from the start

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          Cutting taxes, removing regulation and oversight of the private sector, revoking civil rights for “others”, disenfranchisement, white ethnonationalism mixed with Christofascism, enforcement of social hierarchies with white rich men at the top, suicide via global climate change…

          So you see, you’re wrong. Conservatives have plenty of policy they’re consistent about.

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          I’m trying to not get on either side because I felt meatbridge made some well reasoned points. I do tend to lean with no1riven on the hypocrisy of suggesting conservatives think the are good therefore they are right. I’ve observed people on the left with the same hyper charged conviction so I don’t see how it’s a strong point.

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          Lmao why would I bother answering a Democrat troll like you? You’ll just dismiss anything offhand with flimsy excuses like you always do.

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            1 year ago

            Wow, I just upvoted you and your vote went down, could be a lag in votes while I typed but concerning

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              As if I care about votes lmao. This platform is dominated by an echo chamber, one I don’t support, so downvotes are common, as are retarded trolls pretending like I’m the issue for not agreeing with them unquestioningly.

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                How about you come up with an actual rebuttal to what was asked of you?

                Why don’t you tell us which policies you believe the republican party has to offer that are in any way helpful to the majority?

                Maybe then we can treat you like an adult capable of conversation, instead of just seeing you pouting and playing a professional perpetual victim.