rolling explaining conservatism

Thats right! The peasants however...

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The peasants in neither 1789 nor during the Restoration were predominantly monarchists. They mostly wanted to be left alone, aspiring to join the bourgeoisie.

My point (which obviously may be in error) is that "USA conservatism" should neither be identified with aristocracy nor with the bourgeoisie. Considerable portions of the USA Black and Latinx communities are conservative in the bourgeois sense but not the aristocratic sense. White supremacy is an expression of aristocracy by contrast.

I think I see where you are coming from now, I agree that white supremacy is an expression of aristocracy, but think that that form of Conservatism is the dominant one in the US. The US not being changed by industralization the way much of Europe was

conservatives are definitely like Aristocrats, if we're talking about the old school comedian joke

https://i.redd.it/75rvp8r93zt51.jpg

Think about it. Absolutely harrowing.

so..... close..... to getting it

Is oxygen a human right? Skin? Molecules? Think about what kind of communist dystopia that world would be.

'Everything belongs to me and maybe some of it can also belong to people who look like me if they're gross in the same way that I'm gross' in a nutshell.

^^^ missing a few American flag emojis imo.

Imagine looking at Giuliani and thinking 'the world is a meritocracy'.

i think those people expand their view of meritocracy to include "wheeling and dealing and cheating, if necessary"

'Might makes right.'

— Jesus of Nazareth

Wait, does 'meritocracy' not mean 'a system wherein individuals succeed based on how likely they are to unsolicitedly fondle themselves at the drop of a hat'? I really need a new dictionary.

Really tho, it all boils down to I Love Power.

Modern conservatism in two tweets pic.twitter.com/b2HOh8c50C

— Farmer Jones (@thefarmerjones) November 22, 2020

I think christianity or america could be replaced with other things for some other context and the conservatism would still shine through as would the general sentiment. not so sure you could do that with the phallic stuff which seems more essential to right wing thinking/feeling

so it’s a love and/or worship of power but only a specifically normative sort of power represented in specifically normative sorts of ways. the dick becomes an amazingly powerful & versatile symbol as used by the right in this context

FREE TRUMP MONEY GOOOOOOD

this is literally the funniest thing I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/CAYth9jeYb

— Vail Kohnert-Yount (@vailkoyo) January 25, 2021

White guys whose hair is swept back, white guys whose hair is parted on the left, and white guys whose hair is parted on the right, UNITE!

we got BRUCE chapmans and TIM ones

I don’t know one of the guys looks swarthy.

hey be fair, he probably caught a tan working

nothing says multi-ethnic and working class like the name oren cass

Cass received a B.A. in political economy from Williams College,[5] and was then hired as an associate consultant at Bain & Company.[1] After working at Bain for several years in the firm's offices in Boston and New Delhi,[5] Cass "took a six-month leave to work on Mitt Romney's 2008 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination".[1] Cass then enrolled in Harvard Law School "to deepen his understanding of public policy", stating of the experience that "law school is a lot of fun if you’re not there to be a lawyer".[1] Cass "caught the attention of Romney's staff while still in law school and was tapped as domestic policy adviser for the candidate's presidential campaign in 2011":[2][1][5]

He worked for the next Romney operation in 2011 between his second and third years at Harvard, and ended up with so much in his portfolio that at the end of the summer "they sort of said, well, you have to stay". He became domestic-policy director while still in law school.[1]

Following the 2012 election, Cass returned to Bain, where he became a manager, but also "started writing on environmental and labor policy for National Review.[1] Senator Marco Rubio credited Cass for the poverty-fighting plan Rubio released in 2014.[2][6] From this work, he was brought on as a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute in 2015. Also in 2015, Politico named Cass number 35 on its list of the top 50 "thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2015".[2]

Working class AF

FREE TRUMP MONEY GOOOOOOD

FREE BIDEN MONEY BAAAAAAD

First, this statement from the mayor of Colorado City, TX, pop. 4000:

https://i.imgur.com/3aQXkjH.jpg

Followed by this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tim-boyd-texas-resigns-storm-power-colorado-city-b1803462.html

And, lastly, this thread about survivalist cosplaying:

so my eldest brother, who is a moron, has been playing soldier with his moron friends in the deserts of texas for the last year preparing for the collapse of civilization if biden won (lol). they were burying food and ammo stashes out in the desert, running drills, crazy stuff

— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) February 16, 2021

That thing about not having a can opener is pretty fucking funny

It's like the Twilight Zone episode where the guy finally has time to read but breaks his glasses

a gas fire pit is so not survivalist

Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute!!

omg that is amazing

Tempted to change my dn to ‘sitting there shivering, ranting about libs while he sucks down cold beefaroni’.

"the weak will parish" - Nietzsche

Dude. I'm not to any degree a survivalist but I was a cub scout so I'm pretty sure I'm one up on these dorks. If you're a self-proclaimed survivalist and don't know how to make a goddamn fire you deserve to eat garbage, sorry that's just how I feel.

Also another facet of conservatism seen over the past several days wrt the GOP senators who voted to convict Trump: if you shift half a degree out of lockstep with your compatriots, prepare to be eaten alive by your compatriots.

(But only if they know how to make a fire, so you might not have much to worry about.)

Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute!!

― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:56 (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i used to think there was only one republican commandment: "let the big dogs eat" but i think this one must now surely qualify as the new testament

i just can't get over not having a non-electric can opener in the house

It's... it's cold outside there, right? Why is the food in his refrigerator still in his refrigerator, going bad, when he could put it in a bucket outside?

— artsyhonker/Kathryn (@artsyhonker) February 16, 2021

so a philosopher, an economist and a survivalist wash up on a desert island

I have this little credit card-sized metal multitool thing in my wallet which I just confirmed has a rudimentary can opener so I am more prepared for survival just sitting on my ass than some weekend warrior doomsday preppers are.

It's pretty wild these survivalist have nothing like that or maybe a Swiss army knife

is everybody's brain broken?

if it goes bad you cant just put it in the snow after and make it go "unbad." they would have had to have unloaded the whole fridge and dumped it outside as soon as the power went out.

— sli me :o) (@ssslimeslime) February 17, 2021

I refuse to delve into it with these people but I will note that for produce and things that don't freeze well, putting them outside may not be an option but if your house is 40 degrees you could just...leave the fridge door open?

It does get weird when your fridge is WARMER than the air outside and things in the fridge start to freeze.

I think some fridges that aren't well insulated heated up before indoor temps dropped enough.

If you are a so-called survivalist and don't carry a P38 or know where yours are located at any given time, then you are not a survivalist, but a conservative suburban asshole with too much money and too many guns.

Like, I keep one in the car, one in the bear box, and one in my hiking pack. It's truly an indispensable tool.

A pity twasnt the likes of them found pandoras box all the same