• @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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    162 days ago

    As intellectually consistent as some of these people think they are I’m sure they’ll bend over backwards to defend benefits for the military and veterans. I mean if anyone knows how to pull up on bootstraps it’s the military yeah?

    • socsa
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      I mean the US deep south has been voting for conservative policies for decades and those places just keep getting shittier, which just makes them vote for that shit even harder. The entire political framework is built on abstractions which demonize empiricism as a concept. They are trained from birth specifically not to connect cause and effect, but to wage emotional aggrievement warfare.

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        72 days ago

        On the Professional Left Podcast, I’ve heard driftglass talk about conservatives and he compares them to USSR-era capital-C Communists - basically, Republicanism/conservatism can never fail. It’s because we didn’t do it HARD enough. Republicanism/conservatism can never fail people; it’s people that fail Republicanism/conservatism.

        It’s a cult. A fucking cult.

        • @[email protected]
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          Totalitarians all resort to the same shit. “You just didn’t believe hard enough! It’s all your fault!”

          • @CharlesDarwin
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            11 day ago

            Exactly.

            The beatings strict adherence to The Doctrine will continue until morale improves we have created the utopia The Doctrine has foretold.

    • @APassenger
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      32 days ago

      The bigger the sacrifice, the more there is to honor.