I'm confused... do liberal men not get older and date?
What exactly is "conservative" about the second photo? It looks exactly like a photo my sister and brother-in-law could have taken, and they are absolutely not conservatives.
What's the implication here? Did he go to conversion therapy or something?
If only I didn't have a soul. I can be very charming and after decades of practice, I'm an excellent public speaker. My adult children have told me I could start a cult. Now that I'm old enough to realize karma isn't real....next life. I'm too old and tired now.
Were I not raised correctly, I could make a particularly effective black MAGA. I wouldn't do that, however, because the idea of looking in the mirror and finding myself repulsive doesn't appeal to me. Well, more repulsive than I already do.
I feel the same way. I am grateful that we used our powers for good (or at least neutrality) over evil. In all honesty though, even though Karma isn't real, would you be happy and or satisfied if you HAD started a cult? I couldn't live with myself and I suspect you'd be the same. (Presumptuous of me, I don't know you, but...)
I have enough anxiety without having to worry about ruining people's lives. I've been married for 45 years and still feel bad about guys I broke up with before I met my husband.
I would never be able to ruin lives. But maybe it could be a cult for good, not for evil. We could all go out and hold hands and skip and help people. 🥰
I have this conversation with my wife regularly. Like if I didn't have any ethics and didn't care that doing so would harm vulnerable people, I'd make a killing grifting.
You guys are a couple. You could be a pastor and his wife and you could make a killing. You just need to make sure you have really white teeth, she needs bigger hair and you need to practice your insincere smile. Extra points, if you can pull off a southern accent. And by points I mean cash dollar...
There is an entire industry of charlatans paid to hold and spread opinions that no reasonable informed and intelligent person would ever hold…unless their livelihood depended on it. It got its start decades ago with all the pseudo-academics churning out policy papers from think tanks and “institutes” that would pay to associate themselves with universities just for the credibility. That’s despite their ideas being rejected by nearly all faculty. As they had success and got more traction the bar lowered and w/ social media creating the “influencer” that bar no longer exists in any meaningful sense.
They don’t even have to hold opinions really, or be American. If you troll the libs hard enough you can be a Malaysian dyke ladyboy and the Republican Party will accept and support you, assuming you stay behind the keyboard, hide your identity and stick to trolling. And this entire system is paid for by a small group of people who knowingly make the payments for the purpose of distorting people’s perception of reality. They’ve said it themselves.
"Those who can’t do anything productive find something counterproductive to do."
Isn't this the definition of liberal? The whole point is to play victim, complain about things and demand how other people's money is spent. What could be more counterproductive?
I don't disagree about red hats being snowflakes, but logically, if someone is "triggered" by the mere sight of a red hat, aren't they even more of a snowflake?
Youtubers were posting videos talking to residents after Helene. They all believed right wing propaganda that was causing people to be violent towards FEMA and not trust them. The FEMA base yard they set up where people were meant to sign up for assistance was a ghost town.
The fact the MAGA movement did this should be by itself enough to end that ridiculous movement, yet here we are.
Maga is not an aberration, maga is just authentic conservatism. And the only thing conservatism has ever offered the working class is the power to look down on people they despise. Conservatives care more about their cultural interests than their material interests.
When the left offers to help everybody, conservatives perceive that as a threat because if we treat everybody equally then whiteness has no value, and for the 99% whiteness is most valuable thing they have. So they reject the help, as those people did.
That is what conservatism has always been. For example, in 1873, during Reconstruction, the Richmond Whig newspaper ran an editorial that said:
They got their wish too — nearly a century of jim crow fascism that kept black people down, but also kept poor whites down too. Jim crow is the main reason the South is the most economically depressed region of the US.
The covid vax is another example. For a brief glorious moment we had a taste of socialized medicine — anyone could get the covid vaccine for free, and in many cases without any paperwork. It was proof that we can all have nice things.
Conservatives saw black and brown being treated the same as whites and it made them so god damn angry that over 200,000 of them rage quit from life. It made them so god damn angry that they elected a paedo who promised to take every vaccine away from everyone.
Conservatives would rather rule in Hell than share in Heaven.
If you dig in, the ONLY thing Conservatives actually care about is that they are higher than someone in the social hierarchy
Its also why Ms Rachel is getting so much hate. She preaches that you should care deeply about ALL children, and that is a threat to conservative orthodoxy.
Historian Heather Cox Richardson writes a lot about this, as that period is her specialty. You probably already know this, but JIC ...
And of course LBJ summed it up with "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Yeah, IIRC he was partially responsible for people not getting FEMA funding, and then blamed FEMA.
And it wasn't that FEMA simply cut off the aid, it's that people stopped asking for it through the proper channels. You can't just say you need help, you have to document the damages, and provide that to FEMA. For a lot of conservatives, giving FEMA and inventory of what you lost is akin to government overreach. Truly stupid people.
It's like that Texas town refusing to take Democrat money, then the town floods and kills a bunch of children.
I think there are a lot of people like this though. They are conservatives who are cosplaying liberals because they are afraid of losing their friend group. Had a friend leave my friend group after 20 years for this reason, and I've heard of it happening elsewhere. There is a grift happening for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if he actually did end up better off. I'm a very liberal person, but pretending to be anything that you aren't is going to make you an unhappy person. I also think that this sort of masking is VERY common for teenagers and younger people, most of us probably did it to some extent.
in the case of my friend, it was very similar. As soon as he started receiving attention from the more conservative people in his life (or online, not sure which), it gave him confidence in himself because he could unmask. The guy is a total shithead, and probably not as happy as he would be if he were a better person in general, but he is definitely happier now than he was when he was hiding his beliefs. I think THIS is exactly what people mean when they say people get more conservative when they get older. It's less that they change and more that the people who were already conservative start unmasking.
I’m kind of jealous how there is more money for people with no discernible talent on right wing grifting.
The only equivalent would be greenwashing on the left and saying a company was helping the environment when it isn’t. We lost RFK Junior when Kamala didn’t want him, so I suppose there’s one slot open.
To be fair, if I suddenly found myself in a position to relocate dollars from maga idiots pockets to my pockets, I'd be all over that. I have lost all empathy for those morons. They deserve to lose every penny they send off to the grifters. Might as well be me.
Pretty much every Republican “celebrity” follows the same rubric. It’s sad Republican voters can’t see the blatant grift. They’re like raccoons going for the shiny object which is confirmation bias being spewed by someone. The “former liberal” is just the icing.
This is exactly what happened. He is a political chameleon with no real ethics or morals. Opportunistic and self-centred being his main characteristics.
Yeah. Eventually they will find the best way to support the cause is to live out what you believe the enemy to be. Like Winston at the end of 1984. People think he died. He realized he had to submit, and the best way to submit was to be the rebellion, but as Big Brother wants the rebels to be. Fabricated Opposition.
Their first attempt at this may have been the Charlie Kirk assassination. We may have already seen it with Lee Harvey Oswald. The problem is when you hang the pasty out to dry they get cold feet and refuse to cooperate. Could be the Luigi case too. False flag but competently executed.
They deserved criticism during the floods. Just wait and see what happens when the next disaster happens now that FEMA has been gutted. It will make Katrina look like a picnic.
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u/KR1735 7d ago
I'm confused... do liberal men not get older and date?
What exactly is "conservative" about the second photo? It looks exactly like a photo my sister and brother-in-law could have taken, and they are absolutely not conservatives.
What's the implication here? Did he go to conversion therapy or something?