• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    It could also be seen as very literate and they are very much giving the finger to the “thin blue line.”

    However, I feel like the “God bless America” sticker on the upper left says that isn’t the case.

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    I can appreciate when people put labels on their car indicating how hazardous they are and how far to stay away. Just the other day I saw a car with similar stickers, including a “We the People…” and one endorsing the Trump / RFK Jr. ticket.

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      Same, it’s really helpful especially because I’m trans and those type of people can be anything from unpleasant to downright dangerous. I was actually assaulted by one of those right-wing assholes because a little girl bumped into me while I was walking, they then yelled “Groomer!” And ended up punching me really hard in the face and kicked me in the stomach, asshole literally broke my nose.

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      So, you believe it’s just better to stay away from people who differ in political opinion?

      Funny, that exactly lets me know you’re the type of person that I probably want to stay away from.

      Judgemental, condescending, and such. Please let’s not let stupid politics continue to divide us. It’s bad right now.

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        There’s an obvious difference between someone having a different political belief and a dangerous political belief. Being radical conservative is a dangerous political belief. Forgive me but I don’t want to hang around people who call me slurs or physically threaten me for who I am, or just try to take away my access to live-saving medical care.

        Fascism, bigotry, and authoritarianism is not an opinion, in the same way that arsenic isn’t a flavor.

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        There’s having a difference of opinion and then there’s wanting to end democracy as we know it. Trump and Trump supporters are a threat to democracy.

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          That’s utter BS

          Also there is some irony to believing that a democratically elected leader is undemocratic. If 2020 taught us anything it is that you must respect the system.

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            Trump has basically openly admitted that if he had his way, this would be our last election.

            JD Vance is a weird corpo-monarchist. He’s written about it a bit, but his corpo-daddy Peter Thiel has openly spoken about it.

            Then there’s Project 2025, a literal blueprint for Trump to follow to turn the country into a christo-fascist dictatorship. Vance wrote the forward to the book form, but the author is holding it back until after the election. Not out of shame, but because they know that being so open with their plan has hurt them in the polls.

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            How did Hitler raise to power again? Was it a violent fascist military campaign, where he clearly outlined the holocaust in explicit detail, or did a combination of propaganda, street action, democracy, and constant, daily, unending lies that they would be very humane and reasonable in their deportation of ll millions of Jews, and NOT forming a fascist dictatorship to go to war with the entire world to kill everyone not German and repopulate the world with only Germans they SWAERSIED they wouldn’t do.

            If you can’t grasp how the plan to depopulation the county of 20 MILLION Hispanic peoples no matter how legal isn’t PLAINLY obvious to you as ethnic clensing, you are the stooge. You are the fool. You are the useful idiot. You have accepted the party line uncritically. You have a crippling lack of curiosity, you can’t fathom why anyone would be offended by calling all Hispanics illegal, as you aren’t even Hispanic, so why would you care, it doesn’t hurt your feelings or threaten you.

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        It is generally wise to stay away from self declared fascists - and people declaring those things are declaring themselves to be fascists whether they know it or not

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          I stay way from people who think the world should all agree. I especially don’t like people go around expecting everyone to have the same view

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            When people tell me that their stubborn ignorance has reached levels so acute as to endanger the lives of everyone on Earth, I find it prudent to believe them.

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    Gotta love conservative double-think. A guy who lives up the street from me has a big “come and take it” sticker on the back window of his truck flanked by two thin blue line Punisher skulls.

    Like, my brother in Christ, do you not understand who they’re going to be sending to “take it?” I swear these guys think Kamala is going to personally come to their house to demand they give up their guns.

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      Pretty much. I usually assume folks aren’t aware of their motivations. This is no exception.

      Not that it is likely true - it just makes my existence a bit smoother.

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    Seems pretty consistent. The dude knows that cops are there to uphold white supremacy, he is white and therefore not in danger of being murdered by them. “Conservatism is the belief that laws are there to bind an outgroup but not protect, and protect an in group but not bind them” paraphrasing the quote.

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      Thank you for introducing me to Wilhoit’s Law:

      Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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        It is a really good quote that crystallized for me what conservatives were all about. It just didn’t make a fuck of a lot of sense to me beforehand. Why vote against your interests over and over again?

        That, and I also now understand that there is something like 30 percent of the population that doesn’t believe in positive sum games. They think that with every transaction there must be a winner and a loser. Don’t quote me on that exact amount. But it is just a startling amount of people that have some very weird beliefs that lead to fascism.

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          Fascists are strange creatures indeed.

          They claim to be all about logic and rationality, but even a little bit of either blows apart their entire worldview.

          “They’re taking all of your jobs” while “they’re lazy and stealing all of the welfare money”.

          “It’s simply the natural order” yet “we need brutal enforcement to keep it in place”.

          “It’s free speech” yet “ban the books, ban the journalism, jail the journalists”.

          “America did not do anything wrong” yet “we cannot teach portions of American history”.

          “War is terrible” yet “we’ll blow them to smithereens”.

          “College education is useless liberal indoctrination” yet “I was incredibly smart which you can tell because I went to Wharton” and “I graduated from Yale”.

          “Thoughts and prayers are all we can offer for shooting victims because bans won’t work” but “let’s ban abortion”.

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          To your first paragraph, I would say it still doesn’t make a lot of sense. I do think your average conservative benefits from conservative rulemaking/enforcement in a “sundown town,” look-the-other-way-if-you’re-one-of-us sort of microcosm, but when you look at the effects of conservative policymaking on a macro-social and -economic level, it’s clear that middle-Americans are still getting a worse deal than they would under more progressive regimes.

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            The second and arguably more important component is that conservatives strongly believe in social hierarchies (even if they are themselves near the bottom). So it doesn’t actually matter if their lives get worse, as long as the lives of people below them (i.e. minorities) are even more miserable. In addition, they believe the rich should stay rich and maintain or increase their power, because they naturally deserve it (this would have been the monarchy and the landed gentry/nobility etc in the past).

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      The dude knows that cops are there to uphold white supremacy, he is white and therefore not in danger of being murdered by them

      That may be this man’s belief, but he’s mistaken. Cops murder black/brown Americans at a disproportionate rate, but in absolute numbers, poor white folks catch the majority of State violence.

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        Oh. Did you not hear?

        The whole point of white supremacy in the US is to prevent the white working class for talking to the black working class, and organize in their favor to gain any form of fairness or access to the value of their labor. Yeah poor white people LOVE white supremacy, even thought they know they are treated nearly as bad as black folks they know deep down, they at BETTER than them. Of course they’ll fight against labor unions, universal healthcare, and social safety nets, it would make their lives FAR better, obviously, but then the black folks lives would be better too. And that’s too far. So let them live on a stagnant wage for two generations, who cares, they are WHITE! They get to take credit for all white accomplishment! The white inventions! The white laws! The white everything! How wonderful! No need for improvements. Keep those low class burger flippers hungry!

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        Your skin doesn’t have to be brown for the cops to decide they don’t like you, but it helps.

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    I always find people that think that pictures using skeletons makes them more badass really funny. It’s like the little kid version of scary. OMG it’s a hand but it’s a SKELETON HAND! VERY BIGLY STRONG.

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    Zone out at “Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses”

    Turn it up to 11 at “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me”

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        Yeah it’s absolutely absurd especially when combined with the thin blue line… Nothing like a vigilante to say “I respect the law and officers of the law.”

        Funny enough my immigrant coworker has this on his “new” truck, but only because he just bought it off some jerkwad that had it on there lol he didn’t know what it was.

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      Enough with cold fusion, more research needs to be done on harnessing the power of hypocrisy. It’s such an incredibly rich resource right now.