You might say, "but I'm not a conservative so this doesn't apply." Except you watch them walk around in conservative skin suits and youre not screaming in horror.
The garbage in government absolutely fucking suck, but they'd NEVER get as far as they've gotten without the absolute scumbag, piece of shit, mercenary mouths at places like fox news, Newsmax, OANN, etc...
I hate Trump with every fiber of my being, but the propagandists like Sean Hannity, those fuckers I'd pay to see put to a firing squad. I fucking hate the propagandists more than ANYTHING. They turned society into what it is. They stoke and "rationalize" the hate so many express towards marginalized groups. They are the only reason we have to deal with Trump and the current GOP... They are why we can never have a government that actually tends to the needs of the people and to actually fairly tax the wealthy.
I wish hell was real so I could have some comfort in the fact that Ingram, Hannity and fucker Carlson would suffer for eternity.
interesting movie you should check out, God Bless America, directed by the inimitable Bobcat Goldthwait.
it's a sort of dirtbag dark comedy blend of Falling Down meets Joe vs The Volcano. middle aged guy gets a terminal diagnosis and goes on a cross country rampage taking out right wing pundits. there's a fair amount of poorly aged schlock and nostalgia fetishizing but the core premise is enough to make it worthwhile.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely have to check that out
I wish hell was real so I could have some comfort in the fact that Ingram, Hannity and fucker Carlson would suffer for eternity.
As a Buddhist, I wish for them to be reborn as Gazans, Blacks in America, or any other disfranchised person of color.
I have a firm secular belief that heaven could be made on earth if we all worked together.
On reflection I find we could probably also do a limited trial run of hell, for certain offenders.
It's hard to overstate how little I care about conservative values, especially as demonstrated by the actions of politicians instead of what they say and write. Really, the current regime in the US is just the logical conclusion of what conservatives have already been doing for decades.
I tried to understand them. I really tried.
I spent way too many hours asking questions in good faith of Trump Supporters only to have them either lie or try to gaslight me.
It’s absolutely insane.
There is no coming back for the GOP.
I have zero respect for them and they have zero credibility.
What if I'm not screaming in horror because that's who these people always were and I had to grow up around them?
This is where we are.
It's no longer
"I didn't speak' and there was no one left to speak for me".
It's now "I spoke' so I ended up in a concentration camp in Central America".
My parents would call me in tomorrow if the could, they already hate me because I'm the"stupid socialist"
sounds like you've either done your screaming already, or you agree with them and don't want to admit it.
In rural America, no one can hear you scream
I'm just out of breath and my throat hurts from screaming so long.
The brainwashing is working
"Conservatism" was founded by literal monarchists. Trump represents the truest form of conservatism seen in the US since its founding (exceeding even the Nazis and Confederacy, at this point).
"The Confederacy" was such a shitshow and so short-lived that it barely constitutes a "confederacy" anymore than a "no girls allowed" sign kept their moms from finding their porn stash.
What's the picture say? When I look, all I can see is the fox News logo and then my head starts to hurt.
Political identites are fundamentally about group-belonging, not ethics or consistency.
Moreover, conservativism is just the modern term for aristocratic and aristocrats have always valued complete freedom for themselves and the enslavement of everyone below.
Nah, dude has stood up strong for conservative values: patriarchy, racism, genocide, authoritarianism, fascism, etc.
"Why are you wearing that stupid man conservative suit?"
I can give you 787.5 million reasons why you can't trust fox
False. He still meets the core conservative values of being white, blonde, straight, cisgender, and male. And “Christian”. But above all else, bigoted and anti-intellectual.
They are the values of paleoconservatism and should not be misused to represent conservatism in general. Perhaps you are listening to the angry mob instead of informing yourself, which is not a clever thing to do if you want a united country.
If conservatives had actual values, they'd be screaming as loud as the left. Some do, and did,.but Liz Cheney was chased out of Congress for doing what she felt was right.
Individual exceptions do not at all argue against the sad reality that "conservatism" is just regressive bigotry, and as such lacks any collective principle worth bothering to learn or debate.
Why should anyone take claims of "conservative values" seriously when they are routinely discarded whenever they stop being convenient?
No true conservative, amirite?
What are your traditional conservative values? What are we conserving by not allowing gay people to get married? What are we conserving by denying man-made climate change and refusing to invest in green energy when it is so obviously and undeniably the future? What are we conserving by encouraging women to be thoughtless, subservient housewives? What are these core values that are so valuable?
The fuck is paleo conservative? How fucking stupid do you want to be? Are you just moving goalposts? How fucking stupid do we need to get?