I think a lot about a woman I used to know who adamantly refused to look up words she didn’t know. If she couldn’t figure it out from context, that’s just what it was.
She had some weird beliefs. Also the worst DND player I’ve ever had, I think.
Some people are just… not okay. Something in them in broken. Perhaps it could be fixed, but we live in the bad place.
This is how conservatives operate. The wealthy want more wealth and don’t care who gets hurt. Their bootlickers are drunk on authoritarianism, and get off on bowing to their superiors and kicking the people under them. There’s something wrong with the bootlickers brains. You’d probably be an asshole, too, if you came every time you bowed down to a rich man or hurt someone poorer than you.
I thought the CEO was shot in the back. If we want to be scientific about it, we’d need data about them being shot in the face, too.
They won’t learn. They can’t learn. Their ego is too fragile and too wrapped up in disinformation and nonsense. Accepting that conservative policies are bad actually would break their shitty little minds.
Conservatives are incapable of good government. They don’t believe in it. They don’t understand it. They’re shitty people.
Climate criminal. Sentence him to a decade of litter removal, and bar him from holding office or working in any advisory or leadership roles.
If it’s like before, eventually it’ll be just a vague “things were bad” like the gilded age or great depression. Humans aren’t great at learning big picture things.
I used to care more about work. But this job pays garbage and is frothing over AI, so fuck them.
Well that’s consistent, if you accept their belief as true. Who cares about the mortal body when it’s a blink of an eye before eternal heaven?
Unfortunately, they are almost certainly mistaken. This is probably all they get.
Rich people don’t want to give anything up.
Assholes don’t want their out-group to have anything nice. Even if it means they suffer.
Many people don’t know shit about fuck, and they’re just trying to get through the week.
My dad used to rant about how government should be run like a business,
Anyone who sincerely believes that is too fucking ignorant and or stupid to be taken seriously. They’re a hazard to themselves and their polity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_3%3A16
In the King James Version, this is translated as:
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Honestly, many conservatives have such bad empathy this might move the needle. If it’s not happening to them, they don’t understand
Right. Conservatism is about hierarchy. Hierarchy is good and natural. You get shit on by your betters, and you get to shit on your lessers. Trying to change that is horrifying. It’s going to mess up the world! And if hierarchy isn’t good and natural, then all the suffering I experienced was unjust, and all the cruelty I inflicted was mere cruelty. Can’t have that. I’m a good person who deserves my lot in life. Even if it’s not royalty. There have to be royals.
It’s a shit world view built on cruelty and cowardice.
I’m pretty sure fraud is already illegal and most people don’t consider those laws a dangerous stifling of free speech.
Well, yeah. Conservatives will say anything to advance their goals. Doesn’t need to be true or consistent with previous statements. They’re bad people.
I read a blog post once about that. If I recall, it made the argument that conservatism is fundamentally about hierarchy and abuse. Child abuse is about hierarchy and abuse. It’s thus not surprising they go together.
The blog was more sophisticated than my memory of it, of course.
Seems like another example where the people making decisions are not qualified to make those decisions.
Once again, conservatives believe in hierarchy. Separate rules for separate people. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
They don’t see “the congress guy gets paid leave and the bartender does not” as contradictory. They see that as the rule of hierarchy being applied consistently and fairly.
Like, imagine if someone told you your alphabetically sorted bookcase was wrong because you had the colors all mixed up. The worldview they’re applying doesn’t even intersect with more typical ideas about fairness.