rolling explaining conservatism

well yeah, i don't mean to suggest that it's either one side or the other. (the ideal of society without ANY repression probably died with the utopian communes, right? i doubt anyone seriously holds onto that hope anymore, no matter how far left you look.) just that ryan's characterization, which sounds basically correct to me, also sounds a little old-fashioned when lately the left (already the regime of stuffy political correctness) has been scrambling to compromise effectively with the trump-style populism that's in the spotlight.

The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise: This Politico story about Colorado Springs probably belongs here. An interesting read regardless.

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-trump-administration-is-planning-an-unprecedented-attack-on-voting-rights/

Skepticism/fear of democracy is def a conservative trope.

if scientists were as smart as they think they are they'd be in business, making fortunes, where the real quality is employed :)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/science-division-of-white-house-office-now-empty-as-last-staffers-depart/

Well yeah, why would you ever talk to a smart kid unless you needed their lunch money

the only reason they have time to do their homework is because they're too weak and uncoordinated to play sports and too ugly and awkward to hang out with the opposite sex. science is a consolation prize profession alphas would never consider

so much of american life is subtext. what you're avoiding thinking about speeding to work after waking up late from drinking too much the night before because you hate your life. so much of american life is totally phony. mr. trump understands this as well mr. mcmahon does. i asked to see your birth certificate because i wouldn't hire you even to hide my tax returns or build my wall. mr. trump speaks for me when mr. mcmahon's and mr. limbaugh's programs aren't on and i don't want to think about what will happen if i get in an accident speeding home, thirsty for the first drink of the night. mr. trump is who i want to be, in a helicopter

fuck a helicopter I'm holding out for a jetpack

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/

I dont think it has been mentioned yet so I wanted to say that along with the "prostestant" idea I think another related idea that comes from Weber, that of asceticism or self-control, is also really important. Conservatives tend to see liberals as hedonistic, as unable to govern their desires, etc. so for conservatives--who see themselves as disciplined, as governing themselves and their desires in a way that's not intended to optimize their gratification but to benefit society as a whole--any kind of "downward mobility" is attributable to a lack of self-discipline.

otm ime

How in god's name is a Democratic senator considered "left"? Or any of what they're talking about in that article.

... You do know where the left-right distinction comes from, right? It's who sits where in parliament.

If you want to be pedantic, we don't have a parliament, you Nordic nitwit.

Wow rude

Sorry, I couldn't resist, I watched too much Lost in Space when I was a kid.

I didn't say you did. The distinction wasn't invented in the US, you self-obsessed idiot.

'Nordic nitwit' is fairly good, though.

liberals are just jealous. rich people are always the ultimate bad guys. i know who the real bad guys are - liberals and takers!

i'm a liberal and i'm going to change my name to snoozer d. moochman.

if i invented a liberal mooching claw that could steal drug money from the pockets of Makers, would that make me a Heroic Entrepreneur?

it depends on how much money/property you've already or will inherit

i love to snooze, i love to mooch, i love to take, from those who make. i'm the moochman. check out my moves, you racist hicks.

http://www.dltk-teach.com/fables/grasshopper/grasshopper.gif

I have a theory about global warming and why people think it's real. Go back, 30, 40 years when there was much less air conditioning in the country. When you didn't have air conditioning and you left the house, it may have in fact gotten a little cooler out there because sometimes houses become hot boxes. Especially if you are on the second or third floor of a house in the summer time, and all you've got is open windows and window fan, or a servant fanning you with a piece of paper. When you walked outside no big deal still hot as hell, now 30, 40 years later all this air conditioning, and it's a huge difference when you go outside. When you go outside now, my golly is it hot, global warming. It's all about the baseline you're using for comparison.

Good Storify thread.

Aside from 'sociopathy' being misspelled in the title, very solid thread, this one.

God damn twitter threads make me so mad.

be angry at other things

i'm tellin ya, poor people have a screw loose..

Angry at plenty of things, but I don't understand trying to write an essay as a series of tweets.

Jesus once said, "Help the poor"
But he doesn't believe that any more

People -- before birth, God rates them
If they are born poor, it means God hates them

And destitute children are no longer worthy of our pity
Although grudgingly, Christ allows an orphanage in the worst part of the city

"Blessed is the richest guy in town"
He says, "For his wealth shall trickle down"

LYSOL DOUCHE

Angry at plenty of things, but I don't understand trying to write an essay as a series of tweets.

― DJI, Friday, July 7, 2017 11:42 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

twitter only lets u write 140 characters per tweets (1/)

sometimes you have more than that to say, but want people to be able to read(2/)

it inside twitter rather than click out to something else.(3/)

if ppl have to click another link, they will probably skip it.(4/)

if u dont want to read tweet threads, skip them. (5/5)

guys, conservatives just love to poop their pants. that's it. psychoanalyse them all you want, that's all there is to it.

Lol @m bison, esp the part where even one goddamn sentence doesn't fit into a tweet and has to be split into two tweets.

I think I found the image that sums it up:

https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/simgad/16612822897549419215

All I see here is a bunch of know-it-all's giving their opinion without having read a lick of Republican literature.

Go on and smash with your baseball bats the lowest hanging fruit of the conservative tree while the rest of us try to live our lives the best we can.

know-it-alls doesn't need an apostrophe

yo snipes i question your assumptions

Possibly not the best username to have whilst complaining about conservative stereotyping

just glad to see Wesley out of prison tbh

Republican literature lmao

Aka the back of a dollar bill

Banana Man, let me give you some homework and then we can talk. How about you read Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver.

Believe it or not, I was once young and went to college just like the rest of you.

But then you were done mowing the lawn and went home

In its pages, Richard M. Weaver argues that the decline of Western civilization resulted from the rising acceptance of relativism over absolute reality. In spite of increased knowledge, this retreat from the realist intellectual tradition has weakened the Western capacity to reason, with catastrophic consequences for social order and individual rights.

so Weaver's being prophetic about modern conservatism?

not to nitpick but weaver isn't really "republican literature" right? it's more like conservative literature. there's lots of great conservative literature.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/LincolnNovel.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Sister-cover.jpg