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Conservatives: "We want small government." Also conservatives: "Government should ban gays and abortion and prostitution and drugs and Cardi B and..."

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M Best Comment
Better yet. Lets have a war on them all, hire thousands of people to fight it with no real success and thousands more people to overseee their perfomance at massive expense.

Thank you for the Best Comment.. I should have random outbursts of frustration more often. The American way of dealing with issues is SO counterproductive.

SW-User
Conservatives have absolutely zero self awareness.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@SW-User I've met paleoconservatives who are generally reasonable, but neocons have no idea what they fuck they're doing.
dale74 · M
First of all you're totally wrong you feeling for the media spin conservatives don't care one bit about who's gay and who's not they believe that everybody should be treated equal and there shouldn't be special caveats because you're gay black brown Asian female male everybody should be treated equal. Abortion should be left up between a woman and her doctor but it should not be used as a form of birth control. Prostitution I don't care what a woman does with her body there have been prostitutes in the world since the dawn of time but then are you wanting prostitution to where it's legal and regulated and taxed by the politicians or just a way for women to make free money without having to pay taxes that's just different question sorry to get off subject. Drugs as long as the drug does not cause problems to the point of interfering with other people's lives such as like acid or psychedelic drugs that make people go out and kill people yes those should be getting rid of so we must smoke pot go for it I don't care didn't care when those deputy sheriff either never even wrote a ticket for it it wasn't legal where we lived I just made him dump it out. so you generalize conservatives would that actually knowing what conservative stand for. If you're listening to MSNBC CBS NBC ABC CNN you're never going to find out what a conservative actually thinks. I watch MSNBC I watch CBS I watch CNN because if you watch the channels that put up a different view than what you normally would agree with then you can understand the other side and you can be sympathetic. But the first one that you mentioned I think is the most important everyone needs to be treated equal doesn't matter the color of your skin or your gender and I really don't care who you want to go to bed with at night. Everybody just needs to be treated as equals.
Londonn · 36-40, M
@dale74 "Abortion should be left up between a woman and her doctor but it should not be used as a form of birth control"... sorry mate this sentence alone is a total hypocrisy 🤣😂
dale74 · M
@Londonn no it doesn't there are so many forms of birth control out there there's no reason to use abortion as a form of birth control. In the cases of rape incest or be it some kind of a medical decision or mental capacity.
dale74 · M
@Londonn out of the many women I know that have had an abortion not a single one of them had it as a form of birth control.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
What's also funny is what is considered conservative today wasn't consider conservative 30 years ago. Not that either of them are right. Just that a conservative from 30 years ago would not agree with a conservative of today. They would consider what Trump did blastphamous to the extreme.
boudinMan · 61-69, M
@Graylight you need to take a look at your own party... they used to be for the little guy, the worker. they also used to be anti-socialist. not any more.
Graylight · 51-55, F
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@boudinMan this is one thing that McCarthyism has shown to be consistent throughout the Republican parties history.

And that's the false accusation that the democratic party has ties to the communism/socialism.

That's about the only thing that has remained the same in the Republican party.

Please read up on Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism and the thousands that they falsely accused before you say that.

[quote] "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana [/quote]
Londonn · 36-40, M
I happened to find a pysciological paper about the differences between liberals and conservatives.. it was a huge statictical research.. believe it or not (or a totally obvious) turns out conservatives had less empathy ability. and when you think about it, empathy is something you learn, it is not given. it's like when you jump and down on an ant nest just for fun when you were 4 and your mom says no don't do it.. or she doesn't say anything at all.. it is not in our genes, it is how we are wired from childhood, how we learn to look at life.. unfortunately changing is so hard after a while and almost can't understand each other anymore.. or maaaybe we can, but I don't think anybody remembers anybody from the other side in the vote cabin.. in the vote cabin we are who we are
boudinMan · 61-69, M
@Londonn studies also show that conservatives give more money to charitable causes. how do you reconcile the two?
Londonn · 36-40, M
@boudinMan it is just because the bible said so?? 😂
boudinMan · 61-69, M
@Londonn i would say it's because conservatives are more empathetic and that the research paper you referenced is a bunch of horse shit.
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BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@boudinMan Anyone who favors censorship isn't a leftist. One of the most fundamental components of leftism is a rejection of corporate establishment. Meaning leftists hate the established powers censoring adversarial voices.

The people you're probably talking about are the bullshit ass center-left people, like Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi. The left HATES them. Take it from an actual lefty.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@BlueMetalChick calling Biden and Pelosi center-left is generous. There's nothing left wing about them. The closest thing to the center-left is Bernie and AOC.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@basilfawlty89 I guess I mean center-left when counting cultural and social stuff.

But Biden is an old time drug warrior so that's dicey...
Graylight · 51-55, F
Yup. Screaming for small government the relying on big government isn't much different than the teen who wants all the luxuries in his life doesn't want to follow curfew. Life, unfortunately, doesn't work like that.
Straylight · 31-35, F
So they want the government smaller but with more power?
Straylight · 31-35, F
@SW-User Because their idea of small government is cutting any politicians who don’t agree with them.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Straylight Small government basically means keep all the overseas wars and corporate welfare and bank bailouts and shit like that but cut any spending for stuff that helps anyone that isn't already rich, e.g. public education or infrastructure maintenance or medicare.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Straylight :) Other terms for small government are bottom-up government, and government for and by the people.

There's a far better chance that your city commission can respect and serve the best interest of the community than a bunch of billionaires in Washington DC.
gol979 · 41-45, M
It's all an illusion and the same mode of thought can be applied to mainstream "leftists".

"We embrace all diversity aesthetically but you all have to think and speak exactly alike otherwise you are cancelled"
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@CountScrofula The worst thing about cancel culture is that it created the anti cancel culture movement.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@BlueMetalChick Yeah. The whole thing is just culture war bullshit and best ignored and it's also remarkably ineffective. Basically just serves as a way for the left and liberals to get into slap fights while conservatives use it as a rallying cry.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@gol979 Bingo!
boudinMan · 61-69, M
you misspelled ben gay.
SW-User
@boudinMan You are arguing against something that no one is suggesting then.
boudinMan · 61-69, M
@SW-User go away, you're not making sense.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@boudinMan She has a point. You were trying to pretend like I was in favor of conservative people being censored earlier even though I don't believe that.
SW-User
There's an adage "everyone wants small government...until they don't." More and more I'm finding that to be true. Neither side can claim to stand for "small government" (though should note that only the right makes it part of their identity). Both the left and the right want government intrusion for different reasons; the left tends to favor more economic regulations, the right tends to think social norms and morality should be enforced through law. I may not agree with libertarians, but at least they are honest in not wanting the government to regulate [i]anything[/i] (for better or for worse).
Heartlander · 80-89, M
Haaaaa ... liberals favor small government when big government rebukes them.
OfflineFriend · 22-25
Regulate is much better than ban most of the time
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@OfflineFriend Regulations are one of those things that people seem to think are inherently bad while also encouraging them lol
OfflineFriend · 22-25
@BlueMetalChick well regulating sugar is a evil
smiler2012 · 56-60
{@bluemetalchick ] yes nothing like them showing the true right win g bigoted opinions is there 🤷‍♂️
OfflineFriend · 22-25
Cardi B should go to jail tough
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@OfflineFriend Yes, but for committing crimes, not because she writes dirty lyrics.
OfflineFriend · 22-25
@BlueMetalChick should all thots be banned ?
SW-User
ban gays and drugs that is going to make a very unhappy BlueMetalChick


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Graylight · 51-55, F
@BlueMetalChick Yeah, I'm part of that crowd, lived all over the country and have never really known that to be true. Stereotypes, I understand, but they're trash.
Most lesbians I know wouldn't stand out in a baby shower.
@BlueMetalChick Like a mullet and a monocle
SW-User
@BlueMetalChick Sorry, I did think you liked girls

 
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