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Conservatism is Brain Damage
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it never ceases to amaze me how capable conservatives are at recognizing how bad conservatism is, as long as you dont tell them its conservatism they are recognizing and criticizing.
once you do, suddenly the brain shuts off and all that bad shit transmogrifies into sunshine and lollypops
“Conservitism” to them is synonymous with capitalism first and foremost. In their dichotomy, everything that isn’t that is communism and therefore (since big communist regimes are fascist) fascist.
When I grow up, I want to be a tiger. A very small one though.
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It’s almost as if he’s doing mental gymnastics to avoid coming to the obvious conclusion… who’d ever do that about their political beliefs?!
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When I was growing up, the difference between the American left and right was understood like this (at least by me):
- Left: We’re all in this together, and we should work together to make sure everyone is okay
- Right: Rugged individualism and healthy competition
- And the push-pull between those two made for a good balance
In my adult life, I am aware that that was never really true. The American Right has always wanted to restrict individual liberties, and implement a caste system, going all the way back to 1776.
The rational definition of conservatism is the maintaining of the status quo. No radical change. Don’t rock the boat.
As a political philosophy, it’s boring. It’s safe. Just keep things the way they are.
If the way things are is cruel and unjust, then what is it to fight to maintain that state of things?
Outside of a utopia, “keep things as they are” is unlikely to be the highest of moral grounds.
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fascism is a reactionary position against radical change and conservativism is a strain of that
Conservativism predates fascism by 100-200 years, does it not?
yes, and?
And so they are implying the hierarchy of your categories is reversed.
If it looks like shit, and smells like shit, how do you know it’s shit and not mainstream conservatism?
Consider their law strategy: instead of targeting bad behavior, they target people they don’t like.
He might not be able to understand a word being bad because of the actions ascribed to it. “So if Bernie did those things you’d call him a fascist?” “Uh yes, that’s not a gotcha.”
He’s more likely to think something like “fascism isn’t actually a bad word because it just means conservatives and that’s my team”
I used to follow a subreddit called SelfAwareWolves that was dedicated to this. It was pretty amazing.
There’s one on Lenny.ml that could use some love
Or a new home. Just sayjn’.
Definitely yes
Thanks, I’ll take a look.
Why can’t I find papers that don’t list the symptoms of my side being the bad guys so succinctly?
-This guy
Fascism is a very hard to define term, just look at what a mess the definitions on the Wikipedia page for “definitions of fascism” are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism?wprov=sfla1
I really like the way Tommy douglas put it
LOL’d at the edits of someone linking a neonazi and using that to say “Fascism is actually Marxism!”. It was technically in the right section I guess?
Whoopsie
