• db2@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    In order to be conservative you have to be afraid, irrationally. Afraid your guns will be taken, afraid the gays are going to out-breed you (not even kidding, they really “think” that), afraid what you want won’t be what everyone does, afraid other people are smarter or more capable, afraid that when you die you won’t get magicked somewhere to live forever. Basically afraid of everything whether it makes any sense or not. And afraid someone else will find out how afraid you are all the time.

    They’re pathetic and not fit to walk a dog much less run anything.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of that specific brand of conservatism is very American. While everywhere has conservatives, and I totally agree they’re build on a foundation of personal fear, they have very different presentations in different places!

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      1 year ago

      afraid the gays are going to out-breed you (not even kidding, they really “think” that)

      Do, uh, do they understand how reproduction works, or…?

      afraid what you want won’t be what everyone does, afraid other people are smarter or more capable

      Well, yeah, that’s almost certainly true.

      afraid that when you die you won’t get magicked somewhere to live forever.

      Atheists would say that’s true too.