Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

when the crowdfunded liberal bubble bursts the apple podcast app will be a wasteland of abandoned podcast husks that male vitality serum companies will take over like old urls

i like christmas trees & christmas decorations

Discussion of things on the internet is a bad thing

i like christmas trees & christmas decorations

― marcos, Monday, December 11, 2017 11:32 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too. i have a gaudy decorated corner of my office cubicle and everything

markets + money are the best solution to the problem of allocating limited resources to people who don't agree on how they should be allocated

people who are critical of capitalism are often just bad at it

After discovering Lil Pump:

1) Where are this boy's parents?
2) How is everybody involved with his career not being charged with Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor?
3) Where is the system?

I guess I could have had the same thoughts re: Lil Wayne back in the '90s, but I was not-yet-old-enough then to have those type of thoughts.

Poor Lil Pump. Another aspiring young artist cut down by the scourge of fentanyl. Will his senseless death finally be what it takes to spur us to action. Thoughts and... Wait, what's that you say? Wrong guy? They made another one?

I believe Juanita Broadderick 100% and the people on the left who see complications there are fucking cowardly enablers

your mom is hot

markets + money are the best solution to the problem of allocating limited resources to people who don't agree on how they should be allocated

people who are critical of capitalism are often just bad at it

― the late great, Monday, December 11, 2017 7:54 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these i both totally agree with fwiw but i don't think they're actually conservative! lol

it's cool that the only 2 good ilx threads this year are 'Post a controvesial opinion' and this one imo

my conservative belief is that this thread is actually bad

that's a sign that it is good

your mom is hot

― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map)

the true conservative belief is "your 12 year old daughter is hot"

rolling explaining conservatism however, is bad

that's a sign that it is good

― flopson, Saturday, December 16, 2017 9:52 PM (thirty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reflexive counterintuition is the most conservative thing itt

nothing conservative about challops

Flopsotm

this thread is good but it's bad for you like eclairs

some foods are just better with butter, and attempts to equate "contemporary" culinary attempts using butter substitutes to the deliciousness of the butter-y versions feel like a misuse of affirmative action

insert "cultured" butter pun

people who are critical of capitalism are often just bad at it

― the late great, Monday, December 11, 2017 7:54 PM

bro didn't you have a trust fund

a trust fund is for sure the best way to be good at capitalism

So if I'm "bad" at "Capitalism" I'm just SOL basically?

lol i have no trust fund, not sure where you got that idea

you’re not SOL brimstead, have a growth mindset, get better at it

There's other things you can do but whinging that capitalism doesn't suit u is prob not one of the most constructive of those things

god will you stop advocating armed insurrection?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6dje_kMZZJc/Vk3v8TsBJlI/AAAAAAABBps/3X6psYJn4Uw/s400/vikingkittens.JPG

v few ppl really take part in capitalism in a way which cld be assessed, unless you count that itself as being bad at capitalism, which is imo unsound

I aM bAd at cApiTaliSM

I prefer being bad at basketball to being bad at capitalism cos then all that happens is I miss wide open jumpers instead of winding up bankrupt

b-b-b-but what about yr jump shot!?!?!

I'll just be an enforcer and foul Durant 6 times a game

cool, here's 3.7 mill per year for you

that's it? fuck it I'm going into hedge funds

into hedge funds vs into geodes

I hate the word empathy. Especially when it is used by social justice oriented k-12 educators, as in, “schools should teach kids empathy,” as if this alone would be enough to teach them moral reasoning. Empathy is a totally subjective and even narcissistic basis for morality. The idea is that you should care about someone because you also can understand and feel their pain, not because they just are a person with equal rights and dignity.

The general principle of trying to see things from other people’s perspectives is A+ classic, but the term “empathy” has taken on a weird sanctimoniousness. I also think it shouldn’t be conflated with morality because it doesn’t necedsarily lead one to make better decisions.

Also rightly or wrongly I associate the term with teachers who idly speculate that disruptive students are sociopaths.

This made me remember that I had a teacher in HS that gave us 5 extra points on any test as long as we wrong the definition of empathy at the bottom of it. He was big into the empathy.

it's weird how quickly empathy for people who annoy us evaporates

Yeah it appeals to a certain kind of soft authoritarian teacher. It’s not enough for the kids to do the right things; they have to feel the right way about it.

n.b. I couldn’t cut it as an educator in a high needs school and left the profession so my ideas on this topic shouldn’t be yaken too seriously.

xp Jeffrey

ha I would go the other way and say morality is the more troubling sanctimonious term and empathy is all you need, but I get what you're saying & writing ppl off as sociopaths is ofc not all that empathetic

imho people should be taught morality and empathy as concepts in the same way they are taught logic and the water cycle. the social contract, government and economics, and basic games stem from that, history is the evidence base, and by age 19 people should be able to explain in multiple ways why mutually assured destruction didn’t come to pass

tbf have u ever truly have an h.o.? i say this as someone who similarly never has so no judgement.

h.o.?

why is teaching morality and empathy an uncool conservative opinion?

those are good things to teach children

Toms had lots of h.oes iirv