"But he is left-leaning and the lesser of the two evils!1!!1!1!!"
"But he is left-leaning and the lesser of the two evils!1!!1!1!!"
Maybe the purpose of a system is what it does...
Maybe trying to lower the rate/efficiency of the baby-killing machine is the wrong approach...
Maybe you should be thinking about destroying it...
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I yearn for the good old days when being conservative meant not blowing up the deficit with stupid bullshit and lumping Nazis, religious extremists, and imperialist commies into a basket of 'people only useful for adding nitrogen and phosphorous to soil'. That was only 20 years ago
Edit: I mean, imagine an alternate universe without Reagan or the Moral Majority, and instead of Trump we had some candidate who wanted to raise corporate tax rates on large businesses to balance the budget and give small businesses a fighting chance, and holding the line at the Ukraine-Russia border at all costs. That's what I mean, pretty peachy huh
Idk where you were 2004, but the conservatives you speak of certainly weren't around. In fact, I'm quite sure they never existed, considering conservatism in the US has always been closely tied to white supremacy and Christian nationalism.
Yeah the more I think about it the more I think it was Reagan and Falwell that flipped everything around. Everyone got a sip of the tax cut and Christian values koolaid
More like Nixon with the "southern strategy" to lure the Dixiecrats into becoming Republicans.
The con in conservatism is that it convinced billions of people all around the world, it stands for "respectful conversation of traditionalism", rather than "conversation of power".
Besides of the abandonment of the working class, white cishet men were steadily losing their power in society. They no longer can crack jokes at the expense of minorities. They're no longer guaranteed to get a loving wife that won't abandon them even if they're abusive as hell. So the social contract that only existed in their head was broken, and want to undo it all, ASAP, no matter the cost. It's just conservatives tried to not care about women gaining rights, especially up until women didn't live with them. Same with the rights of other marginalized folks.
German conservatives formed a majority coalition with the Nazis in 1932. Conservatives have always sided with fascism over socialism and always will.
did you just blank out all the rabid mccarthyism and thatcherism
No, I'm thinking of the good old days, not the bad days. The post-McCarthy hangover where conservatives were not entirely dissimilar to Clinton, but then Reagan showed up
imperialist
commies
Well, social imperialism was a real thing. though it's in no way comparable to the atrocities of capitalist (aka. "normal") imperialism
Yeah, that's no typo. You have regular boring communist countries that just sit there being communist. In a post-McCarthy world most people realized those countries are pretty benign. You have imperialist nations that attempt to extend their territory and influence. Then you slap it all together and you get the USSR. Or Putin's Russia. Don't let them knock over their neighbors, install puppet governments, give them any aid or comfort or intel or anything
putin specifically ran on explicitly anticommunist platform (the first time he was elected anyway)
Yeah, that’s no typo
Yeah clearly, no need to double down
Sorry, I had no clue what you were even getting at when you quoted 2 words without context
communist
countries
It's a term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state
This article is about sovereign states governed by communist parties. For the hypothetical social stage proposed by Marxist theory, see Communist society.
And unironically using it shows every leftist that you have no idea about socialist politics 💀💀
I think it's just such a common term and people generally understand what it means. Surprised that some have a big issue with it tbh
It's such a common term of capitalist propaganda...
This is a leftist community just fyi
I think it has more to do with communist parties in rule than actually saying they've achieved communism. A leftist community understands the difference so doesn't seem like a big deal to me
It is semantics, I agree. But tainted semantics and objectively wrong.
You could instead say "communist-led country", "socialist country".
The mainstream usage doesn't understand the nuance you mentioned btw
Most people don't have much insight into politics in general, but for a specifically leftist sub the use of such term would seem fine imo since you could expect people to understand the difference. But a better, more precise term would be better.