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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

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The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
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Thanksgiving Dinner (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a pretty progressive guy and I don't think there's much in here to disagree with. The only nit I would pick is that inertia isn't a great argument to keep things the way they are. That is, "we've always done it this way" isn't a great reason to do anything.

Your framing of conservatism is in line with the Eisenhower era when we weren't linked into this existential crisis about the concept of governance. But for the last twenty years (at least) the American right has been against the very idea that the government should govern.

The left is trying to argue about who it should serve, taking its existence as a precondition, and the right is trying to dismantle it without regard for who it serves. As a result, we're pretty much irrecoverably talking past each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It’s not so much that it’s keep things the way they are because we’ve always done it this way.

It’s more, maintain order while we figure out if the system works. If it doesn’t, change it. I don’t think it’s as much inertia as it is there are a lot of things on the agenda. Let’s change what changes would be more effective first