Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

also "let's call them all terrorists" instead of "maybe they all need mental health help"

this stuff is always on my mind but i can't say i have anything constructive to add about it any more (i used to think so). i kind of let my feelings guide my actions and try not to get too involved in making pronouncements on myself or others. if someone is being pretty obviously misogynist, i try to 'close the tab' so to speak or remove myself from the situation because it just makes me angry. also if someone seems too invested in 'being masculine' (mentions it in their grindr bio for instance), that's a turn-off. caring enough about being in some kind of role to name it says you're too neurotic about it for me and not interested in real sun energy (exploring all the roles). i am kind of fascinated whenever i see people performing masculinity: how natural does it seem, where are the cracks, when does the tension of doing it erupt into a bit of self-consciousness and what do the escape valves look like (humor? humiliation?)

lately i feel like an aspect of 'masculinity' people are needing / desiring is rootedness, which absolutely shouldn't be gendered and maybe that's part of the problem. like thinking about the texas bomber, how derelict does your soil have to be in order to do something like that.

I won't defend Samantha Bee for her comment, knowing the WHAT ABOUT debate it would inevitably have kicked off.

^^^

shudder to think what the world would be like without samantha bee's important voice

ok bad post, I'm sure people like her

I don't really care what she called Ivanka but she and Oliver strike me as standard bearers of tepid liberal "resistance." And Oliver looks radical next to her.

yeah i bet she hasn't even broken any bank windows

Iirc she mocked people who go to protests for “not voting” and her evidence of this was low turnout in an effectively uncontested Los Angeles mayoral race. Even the women’s march was too radical for her.

are you being full of shit on purpose

or is your "iirc" just malfunctioning

her beliefs don't align 100% with mine (she has had trouble letting go of the hillary clinton train or admitting that her candidate/campaign has severe flaws) but in general she highlights really important issues and is funny and gives a voice to people who normally don't get to address millions of people on tv. so i'm willing to forgive her for not being perfect

xposts

shes funny

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lip and cheek piercings are unpleasant to look at and make me worry about people who have them

agree

What are you worried about?

You shouldn't have to serve anyone at a restaurant that you don't want to.

hmm

maybe if you could serve them in another room or something

a distinct but altogether equivalent room, for the people you might not otherwise want to serve

other than the person being rejected being too inebriated/naked the only stories I've ever heard of refusing to serve someone at a restaurant have been white people refusing service to people of colour in rural areas

how naked is "too naked"

"no shirt/no shoes = no service" seems pretty common

sorry m8 youve taken off more garments thans good for you m8

has sir maybe been stripping elsewhere tonight before sir arrived here hmmm?

lmao

i refused to serve somebody the other day because he's the guy who invariably leaves a huge dump in the toilet and then hangs around outside keeping an eye on the bathroom door waiting for reactions. cut him a fuckofalot more slack than i woulda cut sarah huckabee sanders i assure you.

lol

What about a labret?

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SardonicRadiantKusimanse-max-1mb.gif

Least worrisome of this category but still a little worrisome.

i refused to serve somebody the other day because he's the guy who invariably leaves a huge dump in the toilet and then hangs around outside keeping an eye on the bathroom door waiting for reactions. cut him a fuckofalot more slack than i woulda cut sarah huckabee sanders i assure you.

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My uncool conservative belief is that this person should be caged like an ape.

Actually, that's unfair. I don't believe apes should be caged. Just that guy.

This isn't really a "belief" so much as an unresolved question or doubt, but I'm not sure whether the left has a coherent take on immigration. I don't really think open borders are feasible (I guess that part is a belief), and short of that I don't understand what the left "ask" or goal is on immigration beyond just opposing abhorrent policies like family separation.

Also, I find arguments like "no one is illegal on stolen land" to be evasive and disingenuous. That argument only has weight in the abstract. In reality no one seems to be interested in reintegrating california and texas into mexico or in ceding the United States to native american tribes to what does that actually mean?

I'm not sure whether anyone has a coherent take on immigration

I get what you're saying, man alive.

Of course you will find open borders enthusiasts here (and elsewhere on the left). But it's not like the only rhetorical spaces are "turmpian evil" and "open borders":

- expanded legal immigration
- more permissive asylum policy
- more temporary worker programs
- in the meantime, no detention of asylum seekers
- for fuck's sake, reunite the people separated so far

We also need a sane way to deal with the millions of people who are already living and working here, keeping our economy afloat with their underpaid labor.

oh yeah and

- speedier resolution of asylum claims
- expedited processes for families traveling together
- support, not demonization, of unaccompanied minors
- speedy path to citizenship for undocumented persons without criminal records

That's a bunch of things that aren't open borders or even -gasp- amnesty.

xp also Moodles otm

those all sound good

we should also do amnesty tho

Also by “open borders” most non-anarchists like myself probably mean something like “legal permanent residence on arrival for anyone who asks who isn’t a violent criminal, also amnesty”

Not like landfall citizenship.

what if that means 100 million new arrivals?

ppl say they want speedier resolution of asylum claims ime they say they want speedy approval of asylum claims

s'like death penalty appeals so tis

ime what they want is, obv

100 million more ppl sounds fine, who cares, we have lots of cities that need upzoning

oh im ok with it personally but just saying

God imagine you'm living peacefully in North America and then suddenly all these foreigners turn up uninvited

Multiculturalism gone mad... in the 17th century.