Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity.

novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the parentheticals are being lost on some.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Normally I’d take this chance to complain about liberals not being able to define liberal, but it’s more than a fair point these days that “conservatives” aren’t liberals anymore. They should be, to be “conservative” about the society they grew up in.

    The modern American conservative now:

    Hates liberals

    Especially hates socialists

    Rejects the idea of human rights

    Rejects democracy

    Wants to reestablish colonialism/strong imperialism

    Wants an ethno state or theocracy

    Is wildly nationalist and xenophobic

    Anyone want to pipe in with what that actually makes them?

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      fascism is just neoliberalism on steroids.

      conservatives put the neoliberal work ethic and hieratchical logic on a pedestal. its probably part of the reason tgey want dictators.

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  • novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think so… people just don’t understand what I mean by liberal I guess. Not their fault, politics is totally fucked in the US.

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    • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah I understand what classically liberal means, it’s the rest of your comment that was nonsense.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree to the point where I literally emigrated

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