• ferne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Everybody I disagree with is a dumbass.” Thankfully, the world is more complex than that.

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    1 year ago

    This is the most progressive type article ive read in a while.

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    1 year ago

    As these comments are mostly outrage over the headline, I’d like to hear which republican policies people here are particularly happy about.

    • WiseassWolfOfYoitsu@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      So I would consider myself at least reasonably inclined to thinking and somewhat conservative. Note, however, that does NOT mean Republican. When I use conservative, it’s in a different context than the modern “conservative movement”. The modern movement seems to be more regressive than conservative. Conservative in my way of thinking is about calm, measured progress. Don’t upend everything in massive sweeping changes… but don’t reject change either, change is necessary and inevitable. The more moderate Biden-y neoliberal wing of the Democrats is probably the closest to that these days - the more progressive Democrats with wanting massive social upheaval type changes and the Republicans favoring the repeal-and-replace burn it down and maybe fix the ashes approach to undoing those changes, neither of which appeals to me.

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      Reality is definitely something the conserved brain cannot handle. Cracking open that tin can is sure to relieve some of that debilitating pressure bearing down on the logic of basically any situation. In my exerience not one conservative has a good argument about their viewpoints, as their viewpoints are grandfathered in and pasted over their ability for compassion, logic and critical thinking. If the world weren’t in the hands of people using dumb conservatives to rob and maintain wealth, it would be classified as a mental illness akin to schizophrenia.

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        Well not every intellectual was born in the past century. Virtually all of these would be conservative based on our modern values. Virtually no one 100 or 200 years ago would have been in favor of gay marriage. There were plenty intellectuals 100 and 200years ago.

        So, no.

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        1 year ago

        On the surface personal responsibility and free market, howeverz there is no thing really conservative about it it gets twisted into some perverted way to punk minorities and to obtain preferential government treatment.

        For example koch brothers and few other select clowns fundd Prager U… To shill these ideas…

        Kuck brothers are some of the largest well fare queens in the US…

        They don’t oay much taxes either due to their lobbying.

        So I guess none…

        • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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          I’m of the belief police should be disarmed and laws put in place that gun violence of any kind is a minimum 50 year sentence. Select police can be armed, but not everyday peace officers.

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          Heavy immigration hurts wage slaves… Where they are born is not relavent. Cute phrasing on this one BTW… Shows your bias nicely.

          Nobody is killing babies. Again phrasing showing bias. Also, if this your ideological position. Get a life.

          America first is not a a political idealogy, it is a brain dead position that practically means nothing aka “anything I like is america first!” “Anything you like is communism”

          2nd amendment protect rights to own guns, nothing ideological about that. Red herring to get cOseRvatives riled up.

          With that said, equal treatment under the law and socially, does indeed stand on its own but it ain’t left right thing IMHO. We can all agree that’s just the right thing to make our society function. Which it currently does not for various reasons.

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      1 year ago

      While I do agree that’s where OP article is going with this…

      American right produces fuax intellectuals that are more focused on justifying current regimes existence at any costs. it is not logically congruent or grounded in any sound philosophical underpinnings beyond I am rich, I got mine, slave for low wages BC you are poor and stupid, youare poor stupid BC your parents suck, I am good cuz I gotz money, I am better BC I crawled out of rich womans vagina, look at these tests score, they prove whyte b smart…

      American left shares much of similar clown idealogy, although there are some independent thinkers but they end shilling tankie shit which ends with some weird positions just to create opposition to the right

      Either way, you can’t have an intelectual discussion within the framework of two party political system and most Americans can’t get over this hurdle.

      People always shilling some predetermined point for “their side” this is literally definition of anti intellectualism