Did everyone notice how this election wiped out all the previous leaders and now we’re faced with being introduced to a new crowd of political leaders.

Elizabeth May with the Green Party is the only one still standing.

  • Laser
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    543 days ago

    Conservative is just another word for fascist

      • @[email protected]
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        163 days ago

        Yes it is. Conservatives have shown time and time again that they will vote and cheer for fascism if conditions are bad enough.

        You are part of the problem. The normalization of conservative politics leads directly to fascism.

      • @[email protected]
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        113 days ago

        The founders of conservative ideology, people like Burke and DeMaistre, were literally monarchists. Conservatism has always been an attempt to whitewash and justify tyranny.

      • trakata
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        353 days ago

        Hey, don’t aggrandize Conservatism like that.

        It and facism have strong ideological ties in that they both take root in the idea of a ruling monarchy, which is how we actually got here.

        The only difference between it and the big F are how many people are in actual control, and how overt they are about removing civil rights.

        • @[email protected]
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          We’ve had Conservative governments nearly half the time. Somehow democracy and progress continued. Fascism doesn’t have ideas so much as it’s the antithesis of compromise and democracy.

          They’re both right-wing, but there’s a huge difference between going to mosque and ISIS, or trusting the police and thinking they shouldn’t have to follow any rules.

          • trakata
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            22 days ago

            …and yet there is a reason theAlt-right pipeline exists, but not an alt-left.

            Being a stepping stone ideology on the path to facism alone should give a normal person pause to critically think about their direction in the first place.

            Again, don’t aggrandize Conservatism.

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              I mean, the pipeline could only be as old as the internet, which rules out most of the history of Conservatism, and there definitely is a left-wing equivalent. It’s just proven less appealing.

              • trakata
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                22 days ago

                I see that you’re misinformed: that pipeline has tracks back to John Romulus Brinkley who inspired the likes of Rush Limbaugh, who you should recognize.

                What is your source on a left wing pipeline of the same ilk? I’d love to know your sources.

                  • trakata
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                    22 days ago

                    You mean the dirtbag left movement? Sure, that’s a good start for an entry point into the alt-left funnel, totally understandable.

                    Where’s the rest of the pipeline?

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          Conservative is what, auth-right…right?

          Which is militant and hierarchical, without rights for anyone but those at the top. With dissenters shot and killed absolutely. Fight for this ideal with any means or join the army Nazis.

          Auth-left is the exact same, but rights for everyone. With dissenters shot and killed absolutely. Fight for this ideal with any means or join the army rebellion.

          Lib-left is rights for everybody, but with chaos. Nobody gets shot. No militancy. Fight for this ideal by talking and loving and making everybody smarter and wiser and more peaceful and cooperative.

          Lib-right is no rights for anyone but those at the top, with chaos. Nobody gets shot and no militancy, they’ll just take away your rights with economic power and selectively withholding education. Fight for this ideal by taking resources from those who you believe who are at the bottom of the ranking of caste because it’s the natural order and has no consequences. May only the strongest survive. Don’t help anybody else, unless they’re a threat, then grovel, unless you can murder them and take their money.

          • trakata
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            193 days ago

            Sure that’s a useful topography if you’re an AI only familiar with a meme graph chart and think in black and white devoid of any nuance.

              • trakata
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                113 days ago

                I understand where you’re coming from, but actual meatspace reality is starkly different to hypothetically working out the end goal threat model of each quadrant and stating it aligns.

                Completely dehumanizing the conversation to prop up ridiculous arguments with false equivalence to a meme graph is not an effective argument.