• @stoly
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    6119 days ago

    Conservatives live on symbols. The Bible, the Constitution, the flag. They don’t even understand them and don’t need to because it’s really all about their emotions. They are in it to win and to feel confident, not to rule.

    • @Yawweee877h444
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      4619 days ago

      Team sports.

      “My team win, your team lose.”

      The extent of their thought process.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 days ago

        this is why high school pep rallies were invented-- it takes a special kind of stupid to bleat about “individual liberty” while pledging your soul to a party of collectivist ultranationalism which “others” everyone who doesn’t toe the line

        • finley
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          1219 days ago

          you are free to do as we say, or else

            • partial_accumen
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              419 days ago

              “Freedom to do what we want! Freedom for you to do what we want.”

        • partial_accumen
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          719 days ago

          For them thats not a bug, thats a feature. “Zero sum” is baked into the foundation of conservative ideology and policy. For them to win, you have to lose. If you we are winning somehow, that must mean they are losing somehow and to them that is not acceptable even if they have no way of quantifying or qualify how they would be losing.