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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
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Comment on The first time I have seen a locked post on tildes and frankly Im scared it's the start of the 'reddit-fication' of Tildes in ~tildes
PraiseBeToScience Link ParentIn my many years on the planet I see absolutely no evidence that there's a huge range of thought among Conservatives. From Buckly to Trump I see see the same racial animus, the same elitism. The...In my many years on the planet I see absolutely no evidence that there's a huge range of thought among Conservatives. From Buckly to Trump I see see the same racial animus, the same elitism. The only thing I see evidence for is a wide range of various arguments and buzzwords to describe essentially the same thing. It's not like leftist thought that has profound differences how the economy should be organized (market, socialist, mixed to varying degrees) of even if the state should exist or not including everything in between. Conservative thought all boils down to dogmatic faith in the market and protecting the current social hierarchies. Even anarcho_capitalism fits this mold.
It's why I'm not shocked at all to see conservatives in huge percentages back Trump and welcome the current decent into fascism. Because it's all the same.
Actual real diversity of thought is why it's near impossible to get those on the left to fall in line the way you see everyone on the right. Lack of true diversity is why seemingly diverse groups like "wall street", Evangelicals, Neo-Confederates, etc manage to form anything resembling a coherant party. In the end they all want the exact same thing, they just have different methods and messages to get there.
Much like Fascists, modern US Conservatives have excelled really at one thing: constantly inventing new terms to sell the same thing when everyone picks up that the current terms are just the same shit different day.
So no. Conservatives shouldn't get to walk away from Trump the same way they've walked away from Nixon, Ford, Bush Jr, or like they would with Reagan if this country ever stopped idiolizing a very flawed presidency.
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Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - our first ban in ~tildes.official
PraiseBeToScience Link ParentI read the thread in question, and I don't appreciate the rude and baseless accusation that I didn't. If only you treated the vile racist enlightened centrism Mumberthrax was spewing, and many...I read the thread in question, and I don't appreciate the rude and baseless accusation that I didn't. If only you treated the vile racist enlightened centrism Mumberthrax was spewing, and many members here were happy to engage in the way you're treating me. I guess my frank and direct language make it easier for you to confront, which is supporting my point.
The thread in question contained a lot of hot takes like it's not the blatant bigotry flying out of Trump's mouth and every corner of the GOP these days causing division and hostility with an increasing browning US population (and the half for the population that are women), but muh media and people who enjoy being uncivil. Maybe, just maybe there's an entire group of people that dont' like being uncivil, but are fucking tired of being force to be civil while people like Mumberthrax can euphemize away his bigotry away as simply "differing opinions". I'm really sure his gardening buddy enjoys having to discuss the finer points of MAGA and not simply humoring Mumberthrax because they have to live near that guy.
If this site is going to roll out the red carpet for MAGA, an "ideology" based completely on white supremacy, so long as they "sound nice" like Mumberthrax, then you're not really any better than reddit, nor are you in any way "civil".
I think I'll just head back to reddit, at least I can call out MAGAs for what they are, and not be forced to deal with them seriously under some forced nonsense you call civility.
Maybe it's best I leave this to someone that has said it better than I have:
This extends not just from my early days as a journalist, but if I’m being honest here, from my early days at The Atlantic. You can go into The Atlantic archives right now, and you can see me arguing with Andrew Sullivan about whether black people are genetically disposed to be dumber than white people. I actually had to take this seriously, you understand? I couldn’t speak in a certain way to Andrew. I couldn’t speak to Andrew on the blog the way I would speak to my wife about what Andrew said on the blog in the morning when it was just us.
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Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - our first ban in ~tildes.official
PraiseBeToScience (edited )LinkI'll be honest, if this place is going to force me to "be nice" to vile assholes who sound civil, then this place is not for me. I do not care to debate whether or not black people are human,...I'll be honest, if this place is going to force me to "be nice" to vile assholes who sound civil, then this place is not for me. I do not care to debate whether or not black people are human, women are as capable as men, immigrants shouldn't be slaughtered or their children separated from their family, or if LGBT should be allowed to marry and commerce without discrimination. No matter how innocuous or polite someone may sound, these are vile positions to hold, and 1000x more vile than calling that person a MAGA wearing asshat who is ruining our country. I personally think people who think politeness is a substitute for decency or civility are either lazy, cowards, or both, and it just oozes white male privilege. You're forcing women, minorities, and LGBT to not only defend their own basic humanity, but they must "be nice" about it. Let me put this frankly, fuck that.
Please don't reconsider. Goldfish has proven time and again he's a zealot, hypocrit, and a child. The most damning thing regarding goldfish was his massive freakout when r/FatPeopleHate was banned, which was literally the most censored sub on Reddit. He spammed these crazy comments Mandarin everywhere.
Conservativee subs have always been the most censorship happy, far more than any left leaning sub, yet he never rides them for it. He proven time and again he only cares about censorship when it's not rightwingers doing it.