Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

you hardly knew 'er!

(Real talk: I almost posted "cumpernickel" but stopped myself. Unnecessarily, as it turns out. Y'all went there.)

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LADS

I very often don't reveal my conservative beliefs here mainly because they're p cool imo

-teens are bad
-justin trudeau is pretty good

I would say both are good, but bad

ie overall their usefulness to our worldview is positive despite the occasional and high profile drawbacks

trudeau should visit that japanese suicide forest wearing ritual seppuku attire next

-teens are bad

disagree!

the kids are alright

I also disagree

teens are, in fact, the worst

but they keep being just a little better than the last set of teens, and/or that is an important story we have to tell ourselves to imagine any hope for our species

I thought "Trudeau is good" was just a liberal as opposed to left view, not a conservative view.

Two sides of the same coin (a loony)

bc liberal party (i think flopson is referring to bc libs specifically) have quite a few former conservatives, so they're a coalition of sorts

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/b-c-liberals-hire-12-ousted-federal-and-alberta-conservatives-which-could-give-province-a-harper-tone

they're technically centre -- to the right of ndp and left of conservatives

lib is the new conservative

lib is the new conservative

― flopson, Sunday, February 25, 2018 10:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's true!

https://cdni.rt.com/files/2018.02/article/5a8ed9e0dda4c8045a8b457b.jpg

love that image, going to sending it to friends for the next 6 months at least

well you and the rest of the world according to ctv last night

Is he up for reelection at some point? Because if he were an American candidate, he'd lose the next election based on that picture alone.

Unrelated, I've started to develop some conservative-ish views of the effects of the sexual revolution. Basically I think birth control and delayed (or deliberately avoided altogether) reproduction has contributed to society becoming more sexualized and more obsessed with sex, porn, kink, etc. I think our bodies/hormones are still telling us to impregnate and to be impregnated and the fact that it's not happening as much as it "should" is confusing us and causing stronger sexual impulses to kick in. I guess what makes me not a true conservative on this is that it's just a theory for me and not something I think we should enact any changes based on. Overall I think the positives of the sexual revolution vastly outweigh this.

oct 2019

he was already very unpopular before this incident

but he is likely going to win

i am wasteful with paper towels. i often use them instead of cloth napkins and rags. i think maybe it doesn't matter.

(i know it matters overall, not everyone should be wasteful with paper towels, but does it matter if i, me, individually use them maaaan?

I despise select a size and will select more than one sheet even when one will suffice.

I will admit I'm a bad green liberal but not because I believe it's ok, but because it's just a failing of mine

yeah individual-consumption scolding is a bad joke at this stage, and always was a kind of trick

(as sanpaku was posting yesterday tho it'll be a realer thing later)

As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional "unconscious identity" with natural phenomena. These have slowly lost their symbolic implications. Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree is the life principle of a man, no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to a man from stones, plants, and animals, nor does he speak to them believing they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

I sort of believe that, but I think our sense of isolation grows more out of capitalist alienation than out of science per se.

would argue the two go hand in hand

There's this thing called communism

go on

I don't see how communism can reconnect humans with nature.

I'm not that familiar with Jung, but I wouldn't have thought he'd be considered uncool and conservative (despite recent Jordan Peterson associations).

I don't see how communism can reconnect humans with nature.

― had (crüt), Thursday, March 15, 2018 3:50 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

five year plan to sit under a tree maaaaaan

dig it

I'm not that familiar with Jung, but I wouldn't have thought he'd be considered uncool and conservative (despite recent Jordan Peterson associations).

― rob, Thursday, 15 March 2018 20:55 (six minutes ago)

Aryan mystical woo racism is kind of conservative

I don't see how communism can reconnect humans with nature.

It made the Zhivagos move to a farm, iirc

xp
yeah I could be way wrong on this, but I would have thought the "mystical woo" aspects would make him unappealing to conservatives, but I guess it depends on how narrowly you want to define "conservative." I mean, marcos's quote is basically an argument in favor of paganism.

Appealing to fascists then, how's that?

identity politics is fucking exhausting

Go on

ya, sucking cock is exhausting

apt

The phrase “toxic masculinity” is badly conceived and the fact that it sounds like it means masculinity is toxic makes it counterproductive. The fact that you have to explain it every time you use it makes it worthless

The things that are bad about “toxic masculinity” are just the things that are bad about masculinity, the extra adjective essentially signifies “#notallmen”

iirc a non-negligable number of ppl who use the idiom believe that all "masculinity" is toxic

you said iirc when you meant ime