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I wouldn’t call it “thinking”. Conservatives react more than anything. They react to progress (–> hate), change (–> hate) and things they’re not familiar with (–> hate). They don’t pro-actively think per se.
There used to be a difference between conservative and reactionary
(Citation needed)
They were wrong, of course, but it wasn’t that long ago that economic conservatives were a thing - the majority, even. Now the culture war brain rot they had to deploy to deflect from how ineffective things like trickle-down economics are have consumed them completely.
How far back do I have to go to find non bigoted Conservatives? Iike to watch old cspan debates as far back as the 90s with Gingrich it was already hate, fear and culture war. I’m trying to find these mythical Conservatives that want to balance the budget without discriminating or putting some minority group down…
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Yes, self deception
Yeah that was it! Where’d that go?
I knew a hardcore Maga conservative once, this is very accurate to how they behaved, they really hate everyone, they just pretend to care about certain people so they can put down others.
And that includes children.
I’ve heard that a lot of them tend to me very harmful to children, and not just the old fashioned conservative authoritarian families or mistreatment of trans kids, like a lot of them exploit children into being intimate with them 🤮. The irony is they try to say that queer and trans people are groomers but the real groomers are them. They are hardcore projecting.
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My mom fell hard into Qanon in 2019, and it was crazy how she just flat-out stopped having any opinions of her own. We were never close, but we were at least able to have the occasional conversation before that, but now any attempt to talk to her immediately turns into her reciting something she saw on youtube. I can’t remember the last time she said anything to anyone that didn’t start with “So my videos said…”
Conservatives: get a job you homeless, like all the hard working people. Workers: so you care about workers rights and a fair living wage? Conservatives: get out of here with your socialism… And the list continues
You can go further.
So you care about your kids? Spare the rod spool the child
So you care about yourself? Health food/healthy living is gay
And MAGA didn’t do it to them they’ve always been like this. Trump just talks exactly like they do on Facebook. Verbatim. Theyre worshipping themselves when they worship Trump.
That last sentence is illuminating. I hadn’t thought about it that way before.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
So you care about Trump? HE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE THIS COUNTRY!
So you care about the country?
Of course I care about the country,so long as I can strip anyone of their rights, keep as many people as possible away from healthcare, and make sure as many people as possible are working grueling hours for as little pay as possible.
spool the child? turbocharge the children??
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Representatives gonna represent.
MAGoos will spend hours lauding veterans, then spend twice as much time lauding the guy who says he ‘likes soldiers who don’t get captured.’
And also vote for those who want to purge their VA benefits.
That’s one more thing to hate about the GOP. Almost any list of lies and backstabbing of their own base is going to feel underdone.
I wish that was only the MAGA cultists.
It’s almost as if it’s not about the actual problems
Make America Gay Again
Gaslight. Obstruct. Project. Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, this is what GOP truly means.
a- and ppl who aren’t on the binary spectrum?🥺🥺
(i feel the need to point out that non-binary does not necessairily mean “in between”. i appreciate that u tried tho <3)
I see what you mean, though I would probably make the same mistake myself without thinking it through.
What would be a better way to address “everyone”?
this is a little difficult, as social awareness for nonbinary ppl is still developing and we especially dont have a lot of established formal or fancy ways to address/include them.
a few small things i have learned/picked up over time:
- don’t try to define all nonbinary identities in relation to the mainstream genders.
example: ladies, gentlemen and everyone inbetween
- –> ladies, gentlemen and people of all other identities
- –> ladies, gentlemen and everyone else
explanation: some nonbinary identities (genders or not) can be defined in relation to men and women but this is not true for all of them. something like “and inbetween” or “all around them” is therefore not fully inclusive and might even imply an underlying ignorance, which could make ppl feel unseen and misunderstood.
- try not to seperate into genders at all
example: ladies, gentlemen and people of all other identities
- –> everyone
- –> people of all identities
explanation: something like “ladies, gentlemen and everyone else” ends up reducing all nonbinary genders into one “everyone else” while the two mainstream genders get named directly. this implies that nonbinary identities are less important to the speaker. it’s ofc impossible to name all identities individually, so when trying to address everyone, i would try to not seperate into genders at all.
- dont think of nonbinary identities as necessairily genders
example: ladies, gentlemen and people of all other genders
- –> ladies, gentlemen and people of all other identities
- –> ladies, gentlement and non-binary folk
explanation: the nonbinary umbrella does, next to nonbinary genders, also include people without a gender (agender). so if we try to address everyone by simply including all genders, we might still forget agender people.
sowy for the wall of text. i went all out with formatting in the hope that that might make it more readable.
this is all just my personal perspective and i pwobably didnt get everything right myself. i hope it can still help other ppl be more inclusive :3
This is really great, I appreciate this a lot!
All of this is one reason why I find myself using ‘fellow humans’ as a form of address. Yeah, it sounds like you’re an alien overlord in a skin suit, but it’s 100% inclusive.
That and (to get all hippy about it) it’s a consciousness shifting exercise - refuse divisions when they’re not necessary for a specific discussion, think at the level of shared humanity as the default.
Or you could just do, “hey everyone” and sidestep the whole problem.
basically point 2 in my powerpoint presentation x3
You are safer in a toilet with a trans person than a conservative politician
Imagine having no intelligence
That’s what a conservative has.
My friend is a journalist who covers right wing extremism and talks to these people all the time. He says the thing they all have in common is they’re all dumb as a bag of hammers.
Fake conversations are just a straw man to avoid serious engagement.
They outsource their conscience with predicable results.
You people are so mean and violent! You should have more understanding and give them more free speech rights and just win them over to better ideas in the free market space of debate. You should reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisan aloha and undertand that the world doesn’t just fit your narrow view. You are no different then trump and you just want authoritarianism because you just can’t tolerate a difference of opinion. You’re all tankies.
The sarcasm adds such a rich flavor to that, I don’t know how to describe it other than delicious. Perhaps coffee flavored
Is it?
The con sun on Reddit seems to agree with muslims a lot, they are even aware of “the good” the terrorists do.
They just don’t want to see or interact with them
I don’t understand what you mean by “con sun.” I also don’t quite know what you mean by, “‘the good,’ the terrorists do.” Terrorists can do good, but usually don’t. The groups that spawn the terrorists usually have genuine grievances, but the organizations aren’t always interested in addressing those grievances as much as they want to be the rulers. That’s the case with Hamas, an organization that’s been supported by genocidal zionists since its inception. Hamas is almost controlled opposition.
Con subreddit but autocorrect
The good as in harming the people they don’t like
