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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

lol nobody cares about n'taxpayer money' and conservatives haven't been a real thing in decades. stop pretending to be in honest dialogue with them; they font exist, you just see Nazis wearing their skin

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah you have a point I struggle whenever I want to describe my political opposition. Sometimes I want to write Republicans but then there are people who claim to be independent or libertarian so then I write conservatives but in reality the Republicans don't uphold any conservative values such as small government, fiscal responsibility, etc. So I think I've settled on the term regressive. You're either progressive or regressive and regressives are holding us back from moving forward. I think fascists could work too but so many Trump supporters just don't understand that they're being fascists.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yeah the people who are just, like, 'leave me the fuck alone as much as possible, I'll leave you alone as much as possible, and if we have to get together, we do it as close to equals as possible' are all a particular narrowish band (in the signal sense) of anarchists.

radical lefties who the republican party does nooooot like. who nobody in power likes.

that same sensibility that was honestly about 'balanced budgets' in the 50s is now, like, solarpunk (because it doesn't take two eyes these days to see money is totally disconnected from reality, but sustainability and stability are still nice) and necessarily anti authoritarian. they just abandoned all their virtues, and somebody had to pick them up, so...

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

conservatives haven’t been a real thing in decades.

Sure they have. We call them Democrats.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'd argue they're still pretty faschy. or at least pre-faschy, like paint primer.