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What’s Wrong with Conservatives?

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Warning, the quote below has bad language, the misspellings are the authors.

If you focus on them, you’re missing his point. @Aja_Cortes, a fitness bro on Twitter explained what he thinks the problem with conservatives is:

Conservatives lose because they have no sexual or creative energy
None.
Its an impotent movement
Nothing sexy, no Art because conservative “values” are whitebread LARPing & there is nothing to create artistry with
Even the name is peak Loserdom, no adventure, no badassery
The Left gets protests
they get LAID and fuck afterwards
They get hot and attractive people making statements
They actually CANCEL things and ruin people, they make things happen for what they believe in
Whats the “right” do?
“But we have principles!”
Fuckingg NOTHING.
The right had DECADES when they actually had cultural power
What did you do?
Build beautiful buildings?
Subsidize arts?
Do ANYTHING that could be considered cool?
Nope. Its a bunch of squares sucking the ghost dick of Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan
SQUARES
You seen the dudes that are Conservative “Youth” leaders?
Do any of them incline bench and look like they FUCK?
Hell no
Its a bunch of pencil necked dweebs

I know militant lesbians with more masculine energy and balls

Maybe they might finally lose badly enough that they decide to get HOT and AESTHETIC and develop a vision of the world that isnt a fantasy roleplay and worshipping pussified evanlegical Jesus and saying “patriot” 10,000 times

Until then, you get defeated. You deserve it.

I could have ripped on them for the unabashed racism that got completely ignored until literally that last 4 years , but that would be shooting a dead horse
Watch the ConservaBros cry in my mentions
Same dudes that wear cargo sho rts with 26% bodyfat and sunglasses in their profile Pic and comment “beautiful” under some political Thotianas selfies

DORKS

A list of “Conservative Values”
-Defending the military industrial prison complex
-Writing articles that only old white men read
-Evangelical grifting
-thinking anyone gives a fuck about dead economists
-Pretending racism has never existed ever
-Losing

I want to post my own comments, but the thread is simply a work of art as far as twitter threads go.

Gloria Steinem is an Idiot

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Steinem argued in the 1980s that opposing abortion is actually a secret form of Nazism, and she repeats the argument in an interview below:

Well, the new generation of reader is instructing me by saying that these essays are still relevant …. on a more serious note, to put it mildly, is why Hitler was actually elected, and he was elected and he campaigned against abortion. I mean, that was — he padlocked the family planning clinics. Okay, so that is still relevant in the terms of the right wing. So there were very few things, actually, that I had to take out.

Forget the historical improprieties. The main thing is this: Some people feel that you can argue against literally any idea by citing the Holocaust.

Here’s another example:

In a discussion of the symbols and/or actuality of transcendent being, Rebecca Goldstein says that Jordan Peterson’s use of Christian symbols and William Craig’s belief in a transcendent God make her very nervous because…the Nazis felt transcendent. As she begins to say it, she obviously feels it is nonsense but says it anyway. But the idea is basically that, “You guys are basically Nazis.”

So what’s my point: Godwin’s law is actually an iron clad counterpoint for anything. You’re against abortion: Hitler. You believe in God or symbolism: Hitler. You’re a Zionist: Hitler. You think Islam is wrong: Hitler.

This sourthpark skit is our reality now:

The Parody of Modern Conservative Ideology

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Conservatives rarely conserve anything. This is well known.

What they like to do is make conservative cases for making society worse. For instance:

henever you find an article that begins with the title, “The Conservative Case” for or against something, lock your door, check your wallet, and grab your gun. You know what’s coming is an unadulterated sell-out of everything “conservatism” purports to hold dear.

The words directly following the ellipses usually denote some obviously non-conservative thing, like “a $5 trillion budget” or “transgender bathrooms” or “4-foot-11, 80-pound female Navy SEALS.” Do any liberals ever write “a liberal case” for something obviously conservative, such as the traditional two-parent family or constitutional originalism?

No, this self-sabotaging practice is unique to the American Right, which perhaps helps explain why it’s in such disarray.

Publius Decius Mus

Here are some examples:


Now, an even better one:


What does this mean? It means that the same neo-cons (I’m not including Trump, who likely doesn’t care about homosexual marriage one way or another) who opposed gay marriage in the United States just a few years ago, used their influence in American foreign policy formulation to use gay-rights in Iran and elsewhere as a pretext for more infinite foreign wars. The conservative case for sending your sons to die for the right to engage in a practice condemned by conservatives in a country hostile to your way a life. The conservative case for more government spending to support rights abroad we oppose in our land. The conservative case for making your grandchildren live in a world unrecognizable to you. The conservative case for being a loser.

Laugh Tracks

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I don’t watch the Big Bang Theory and I intentionally don’t watch shows with laugh tracks. BBT has a laugh track and I just decided to watch a bit of it without the laugh track:

Very little to none of that is funny. But why are there laugh tracks? Well, they work. People laugh out loud more, even when they rate material just as funny as the group that has no laugh track and does not laugh out loud. But I think more work needs to be done on longer exposure to laugh tracks. Even brief interventions can change views, which is upstream from behavior. Also, parody works wonders at promoting negative viewpoints about the target of the parody, which can ultimately change behavior.

In a post on beauty and wisdom, I quoted Dallas Willard’s concern that endless, pointless sitcoms made the cute and mildly funny the standard of truth and beauty. Who and or what is the subject of the parody that constantly comes before us on television?

The Romney

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I cannot tell if this is the most powerful piece of journalism ever written or a recently discovered H.P. Lovecraft fragment, but here is a “twittor thred” by one Bronze Aged Mantis:


As promised I release a dark secret on New Year’s Eve…the most grotesque plans in motion revealed to me by mole inside Karl Rove office, regarding what he, Huber, the Utah deep state, and establishment GOP is planning …what Romney thinks he has masterminded

strap in…Romney isn’t who he seems…he isn’t WHAT he seems. His plans in 2012 were grotesque beyond imagining and didn’t stop at the White House; this is why he makes bid again. The GOPe and Fed plan to crash economy to let him primary Trump; but he knows this won’t work…Romney became Utah senator and together with Utah mafia, Harry Reid and Amazon plans to take over the NSA facility in that state…he has arranged with Huber to release fake info on Trump that can be used by factions in military to declare state of emergency and coup in 2019After military and intel-agency coup in 2019 (much of internet will be shut down) Romney will be chosen as a “compromise” replacement. Much of what Louise Mensch says is true, or rather what they’re planning to do…

What they don’t realize is WHO Romney is, what he plans….After taking over in state of emergency Romney will be given 3-6 months by a compliant congress/Supreme Court to rule with near dictatorial powers. This is when he intends to put his grotesque plan, his Great Work in motion…By the use of cybernetic replaceable body parts and advanced nanotechnology that has been kept secret, as well as the latest advances in bio-engineering Romney plans to achieve eternal life …he plans to use a section of the White House to host what he already calls “The Body”..Romney’s body will become an indefinitely-expanding mass, formed by replaceable parts. He means by this not only to be worshiped as a god, but understands it as the true “End of History” scenario…he sees himself as ultimate Synthesis of Christian theology and modern TechnologyRomney sees this version of himself as “Technology become Flesh” (he reads Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger obsessively) and very literally as the Incarnation at the end of times. His body, self-replicating, expanding mass will be worshiped by throngs of crazed followers who come….He understands himself furthermore as the pinnacle of all thought and all life, synthesis of Greek philosophy and Biblical religion. Certain emissions of this cyborg-body will be given to followers as “Flesh” to replace communion…he will be called The Romney. Total powerThe Romney will become a faceless, expanding mass of both human flesh and cybernetic electroid material …he say “I am the Spirit become Flesh at the end of time”…I heard him say this myself, he had very casual voice

The Romney will rule with severe and absolute authority…The imaginings and ambitions of this man are boundless and without any limits…he has designed furthermore convoluted justifications of himself as the pinnacle not only of Christian prophecy but of many other religions. He has referred to himself as The Romney, The TotalityHe wants for there to be yearly pilgrimages for the adoration of his “Eternal Body,” which as The Romney he means to have a quite literal existence

May the New Year save us from these demonic and grotesque designs.

/end thred