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

• 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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