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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (9 children)

it's crazy how conservatives are just an opposition party. Are the dems for something? Then conservatives must be against it!

they're all just children with severe behavioral disorders

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I always say conservatives have oppositional defiant disorder. How else could you constantly oppose things that everyone else thinks are a better way to live?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives often answer polls in favor of positive things, but publicly state their opposition to Democrats trying to do those things and elect Republicans who actively tear down anything that works. It is madness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives often answer polls in favor of positive things

Because they see themselves as good, reasonable people. They don't act like it, but they believe they do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That and they want things as long as the Dems aren't the ones who get credit for doing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have real issues with whether ODD is real, but I thought the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Conservatives don’t have ODD. They’ve just taken individualism to its logical conclusion and declared anything that remotely inconveniences or challenges them - whether real or perceived - is absolutely unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think you’re giving them too much credit. It’s not a philosophy that they’ve just taken too far. They’re just fed a constant stream of hate and propaganda that even if they think they like an idea, republicans just give it a name with the word “democrat” or “socialism” attached and start talking about how “THE LEFT WANTS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM TO LET LITTLE KIDS STARVE” and then suddenly they’re pro little kids starving.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think you’re over interpreting the “just” here. This behavior is horrible and destructive for society. Let me be crystal clear there.

The point is that the US puts this heavy emphasis on “rugged individualism“ that a lot of other countries do not. This leads to an inherently selfish outlook that over-prioritizes my convenience/comfort.

We have a cultural problem, not an epidemic of some psychological classification/disorder/etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The way that people react to safety guidelines like rebellious teenagers would be almost hilarious if it didn’t get them killed.

I see so many “rebel canners” that are proud that they do shit like dry canning, because the FDA tells them not to. It’s so cool to get botulism because you don’t like daddy government telling you what to do.

The mask bans seem to be that same kind of childish reaction - “you made us wear masks! We’re going to make you not wear masks!”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Well before covid, I knew Republicans would politicize almost anything. Covid made me realize I was wrong, because they will politicize literally anything, even a fucking virus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're an opposition party that's prevented the people of the United States from passing any significant legislation since 2010. We don't have a country anymore.

Americans are a stateless people thanks to dark money. Buckle up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Since we're stateless I guess I'll go get an abortion and stop paying rent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That government doesn't really serve the people. Does it serve us to stop women from having abortions? Does it serve us to allow housing to be an investment vehicle?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

(This is a question about your perspective and not a gotcha)

When has a state served the people? Is it no longer a state if it's like most of them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Last time approximately 2010, when the Obama administration got some kind of health care bill through Congress and Mitch McConnell decided to respond by completely destroying the representative democracy I was just talking about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is what being a reactionary actually is. It's not saying "completely tearing down the status quo will hurt a lot of people we wish to protect." It's saying"I have no ideology besides opposing you."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The GOP's entire idiology is "trigger the libs" and "enrich the wealthy even more"

Ironically, people in the GOP cult are very easy to trigger, but they will never admit it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

they're all just children with severe behavioral disorders

I understand the intent of what you are saying, but please don't call them all children. They aren't. They are adults who should know better and should think critically and are fully responsible for their actions. I think it's important to call them out and describe them exactly as they are.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Have you heard of the Abraham Accords?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago

This is true both ways.