Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption

• barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But you’re describing a standard Dem. Repubs are actively trying to drag us backwards. They are regressives.

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  • skatrek47@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is so infuriating, especially when it’s so easy to show that voting against progressive initiatives also hurts their own constituents…

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    • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is so infuriating, especially when it’s so easy to show that voting against progressive initiatives also hurts their own constituents…

      “I don’t care how much it hurts me, as long as the people I hate are also getting hurt!”

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m already depressed as it is. Why do you have to do me in like that?

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a popular misconception. The philosophy behind conservatism is to perpetuate hierarchy. The ideology was developed by literal monarchists, and when the “divine right” excuse became untenable they moved on to others like racism and capitalism, but the goal remained the same. It only seems like they want to maintain the status quo because the historical status quo was hierarchical, but rest assured: if society were magically egalitarian instead, conservatives would vigorously try to make sweeping, wholesale changes to create a hierarchy from scratch.

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  • Resonosity@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting insight. Thanks for the correction. Perhaps the choice of lexeme “conservatism” would best be swapped for a neologism like “hierarchism” or something to better describe the principles of the school of thought. Otherwise, I made the connection like OC that conservatism = no change, whether good or bad.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Otherwise, I made the connection like OC that conservatism = no change, whether good or bad.

      That’s exactly what they want you to think. It’s one of the more prominent ways in which they launder their ideology to make it seem appealing to more people than just sociopaths. (Or at least, used to, until they went full mask-off under Trump.)

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    • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes. The term has been kind of redefined in practise from massive misuse. Just like many others.

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• satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Correct.

  They are in charge and are going to do everything to keep it that way.

  As you said.

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