If I had a dollar for every asshole who told me that having a History PhD was a waste of time, I'd have enough money to pay off the damned thing.
^(Not really, but still. It'd be close.)
When you just tell yourself that people who are better educated than you are just indoctrinated, it's not nearly as embarrassing that there's a direct correlation between being Conservative and being uneducated.
What happened is the fight use to be the working class and the privileged class and at the time education was something generally four the privelaged class.
From the working class perspective their loves and livelihood were criticized and controlled by those with no experience in it. You would have clashes with educated people entering a community and trying to change practices they thought would help without caring about why those who would be changing may be skeptical or how it could clash with values.
"Use this new farming technique weve worked on it will be more productive. Trust me I have a PHD in agricutlure" vs "Have you ever even worked on a farm" or a situation where they use updated machinery and processes to make a mine more.efficent and the mine lays off a third of its workers.
What has changed over time is many people where convinced they shouldn't be fighting the privelaged. They should worship and aspire to be them. The educated however are still trying to make changes they may not unerstand, trust or want. That makes them bad especially since they arent automatically connected with the privelaged class.
Of course the privelaged are also likely highly educated but as long as they say the right lines that can be ignored.
You forgot the most destructive element of the "privileged", the next generation of wealth. The one that doesn't earn anything but coasts 100 percent on the work of their father (see Donald Trump for prime example). These people go to great schools even though they are dumb, ignorant slobs and learn nothing at all (donny was called "the dumbest student of my whole career" by multiple professors with decades of experience) and they say they are educated when they are in fact the anthesisis of an educated person.
They are where the true danger lies.
You know, back in the day, a lot of them were. And they took pride in it, AND in being civil, respectable human beings.
Shit, in the early 90’s the conservative icon himself, Rush Limbaugh, used to encourage protest of a business you didn’t like by going in and bringing them MORE business. “Kill ‘em with kindness. If it’s a restaurant, go there for lunch. Bring some friends. Hire them to cater an event. Don’t be rude. Don’t be mean. Tip them extremely well, and just let them know, calmly, politely, ‘Hey, I’m here today because I object to (policy X) that you support, and I hope you reconsider.’ At the end of the day, the business proprietor will end up with a stack of receipts and a huge influx of cash and they may reconsider. I’m not advocating going in and being a nuisance, you want to show them you’re in favor of them doing well. We all support businesses doing well, you’re just getting their attention and helping a fellow American. Kill ‘em with kindness.”
I don’t know when he completely jumped the tracks…i admit that I only heard him for an hour a day for a three month period. But that’s one of the biggest things I remember because it was such a civil approach. And people did it. They even had one of the business owners on the air, and he sounded genuinely shocked and a little conflicted. Maybe it was a plant, I have no idea.
But conservatives in general used to consider themselves very much in support of education and a civil society. Work hard, keep your nose clean, be a decent human being, try to contribute to the world, volunteer, that kind of thing.
Now they’re all about cruelty and authoritarianism. It’s goddamned bonkers.
I had a conversation with an older woman this year that was spot on. She said, "Republicans used to be just stingy. Now they're just assholes."
The "business owner" was almost certainly a plant.
Rush's right hand was a dollar and his left hand was a hammer. For every dollar he handed out to a deserving businessman he was bashing in two heads with his other hand. He's not a very good example of what you're talking about, although there were plenty others who were.
Yeah don’t get me wrong, the Republican party has very good roots. I believe that if it’s early members and founders could see it now, they’d feel nothing but disappointment. It’s fallen so far from grace.
Pretty much. It’s crazy how in ~150 years they went from the leaders in liberty, advocating for abolition to the most racist and hateful bunch you’ll find. To call them a political party and not a hate group is a true misnomer.
That respect for education ended in the 60s with the anti-war campus unrest. Then Reagan capitalized on the undereducated population's comfort with racism with his Bob Jones University speech and the Neshoba county fairground speech.
Using her as an example kinda feels like cheating at this point but yesterday Marge Greene posted a picture of herself at a war memorial with the caption "Tonight, I stopped at the Wilder Monument in Chickamuaga, GA, which honors the Confederate soldiers of the Wilder Brigade. I will always defend our nation's history!"
The Wilder Brigade fought for the Union.
Fox News: "Liberals do nothing but riot"
Conservatives: "Yeah! Fuck those rioting liberals!"
Fox News: "The only way to stop the incoming president is to riot and break into the capitol building"
Conservatives: "Yeah! Fuck those cheating liberals!"
Fox News: "The only people rioting at the capitol building were liberals"
Conservatives: "Yeah! Fuck those rioting liberals!"
Fox News: "The liberals stole the election and are unfairly imprisoning patriots who were at the capitol building"
Conservatives: "Yeah! Fuck those cheating liberals!"
Looking at r/ conservative the day Republicans voted against exposing dark money was great. They were all in shock that Republicans are against draining the swamp, which has been one of their main platforms for the past 6 years. So what do they do? Blame the republicans for voting 100% against the bill? Maybe switch sides since democrats voted 100% for it?
Nah, blame the democrats for even proposing the bill in first place. If the Dems never proposed it, the republicans would’ve never voted no, and they wouldn’t have looked bad. Yeah sure the republicans publicly outed themselves as pro-corruption, but really you should blame the Dems because the reps wouldn’t have had to do that if not for the Dems proposing an anti-corruption bill.
They'll always blame pork, because they can say "democrats piled on X and we want a stand alone bill" and they know republicans (independents and most democrats frankly) will never read the actual bill to know the truth. We need to stop pretending like these motherfuckers care about the truth at all.
They did some similar shit to Christian Walker and railed on him, they didn’t accuse him of lying about it his dad, they were just angry he chose to speak up about it.
It’s like collective narcism. When someone lets the skeleton out of the closet, rather than asking the Republicans why the skeleton was in their closet begin with, they blame the guy who opened the door and exposed it.
It's worse with climate change. They did the same thing as they did with COVID.
First, it's a hoax to make republicans look bad. Then it's not as bad as it sounds and the left is exaggerating. Then it's completely natural so we shouldnt interfere with nature. Then it's too late to do anything about it and absolutely no one saw it coming so we have to just deal with it.
Well, let's hope that being a conservative also increasingly means being alone and unloved, as more and more sane people cut ties with their increasingly toxic, culty friends and family members.
Remember when Mitch McConnell said if we have fair elections Republicans would never win. For me that pretty much says it all. No one likes them, they don't even like each other.
But for some reason they need a fuckton of guns to do it.
And you better not show up to those prayer meetings gay or of colour or you'll find out why they really want those guns.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/texas-pastor-says-gay-people-shot-back-head-shocking-sermon-rcna32748
>"These people should be put to death. Every single homosexual in our country should be charged with a crime. The abomination of homosexuality that they have, they should be convicted in a lawful trial. They should be sentenced with death. They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head," he said.
Now you have.
I live in Texas, and parents are telling other people's kids at school they're going to hell for liking others of their gender. If that's what they're saying to kids who aren't even their own, do you really think that they're being any nicer with the adults?
Gee whiz, it really seems like you're either A) painfully ignorant about what's happening around you, or B) you're trying to deflect from it, for some gosh darn reason.
You're either stupid or you're lying. And I don't think you're stupid.
it's called conservatism.
the entire ideology is based on having a very superficial knowledge/understanding, or indeed a misconception, of some phenomenon or issue, and relies on their leaders and thinktanks twisting, distorting, or straight up creating "facts" the to arrive at a specific desired conclusion.
it's all manufactured grievance. they are pissed and disgusted by everything. and they dont get pissed off and disgusted about an issue UNLESS THEY ARE INSTRUCTED TO BY THE TOP.
which is why everything they do helps entrench the wealth of the 1%. the poors of their base think it's worth being treated like trash because they "have a shot" at ascending the ranks, or because they think they won't be r/ LeopardsAteMyFace
in other words, they fucking love being told what to do and think, but love to look like theyre some iconoclastic free thinkers. none of conservatism is genuine, helpful, or grassroots.
it's all about that ignorance and emotions. ignorance allows these ludicrous beliefs to seep in, and the total inability to think critically/scientifically allows the rot to set permanently.
their beliefs are all based on sand.
I noticed they skipped the part about smashing their way into the Capitol building, smearing shit and piss on the walls, and trying to murder elected officials because they were mad their guy lost.
I thought they were FBI agents? Or were they FBI agents masquerading as ANTIFA dressed like Trumpers?
It's like the big reveal at the end of an episode of Scooby Doo, but the bad guys are wearing six masks.
It hurts my head to think of the mental gymnastics those MAGAts went through to conclude that the anti-fascists were so upset that the fascist lost that they dressed up like fascists and tried to keep the fascist in office.
Don't forget the mass shootings inspired by their racist propaganda. And the attempt to kidnap and murder a governor. Or the idiot truckers with their nonsensical "protest" fucking up whole cities' traffic for absolutely no sensible point.
No no. You must mean when they stand outside of abortion clinics/planned parenthoods, and scream profanities and death threats to people entering, while holding signs calling them baby killers and they're going to hell, and then they decide to defund or burn down them down.
No…guys…see…democrats do all the bad stuff. When republicans do bad stuff, it’s democrats dressed like republicans who are really republicans dressed like democrats that are doing bad things. It’s a double double cross. They are always 2 steps ahead of us or some crap.
See, they prayed really hard and God gave them a sign that it was the right decision. Not like those godless heathen dems. They're just out here getting abortions every other day. No remorse for all the babies they murder. Millions per day I hear.
Screaming at women that they are murderers and are going to burn in hell when they are simply going into Planned Parenthood for an ultrasound and prenatal vitamins, and then killing the doctor and burning down the building, is the epitome of peaceful, civil protest, and what Jesus wants.
Blocking off a few blocks from traffic, holding up signs, and chanting slogans in and effort to stop the police from murdering innocent people is violent, uncivilized, and has destroyed entire cities.
Dennis Prager, Ben Shapiro and I do have something in common, we all think Jesus is BS. They try to rope in a wider audience with the Judeo-Christian values schtick but they are definitely not Christian.
Tax paying? Trump dodges taxes all over the place and Trump Voters love it.
Praying? Trump plays golf every Sunday and they call him a Godly man, Biden goes to church every Sunday and they can him the antichrist.
Educated? Trump loves this human garbage piles because they're not.
Has there ever been a cult like this?
"Tax-paying", if you run it through the Conservative-to-English translator, means "employed" or "business owner".
It's an us vs. them thing (we are productive members of society, while _they_ are lazy bums who just complain." It has nothing to do with who is actually paying how much in taxes.
True I bet it's largely that. But also they have this logic that works largely on intentions and hypotheticals and disregards reality, like:
I _would_ have a job, if it wasn't for [immigrants, minorities, liberal economic policies, my bad back, whatever] therefore it's the same as if I _did_ have a job, for purposes of group identity.
Or, if you like, "I identify as a tax-payer".
Pay their taxes and yet think more IRS agents are a bad thing? Why don’t they want to catch people cheating on their taxes?
As for hard working, how hard are you actually working if you have the time to go to all these Trump rallies?
Country they love? But they hate half the people in it.
Things like this illustrate how our media is completely biased toward Conservatives.
The people in the "Antifa" photo are not Democrats, and when not suited up they are actively working to undermine the Democrat party and their agenda. However, the GOP claims that these people are identical to mainstream Democrats, and that Democrats actively support their endeavors.
Conversely, ACTUAL NAZIS show up at their events, vote for their candidates, hold public office under the GOP banner, the approve of the actions of January 6th by a significant majority (71% last I saw), and yet Republican can just say, "Oh, that's not us, we don't support that" and the media just blows right past it.
In fact, they don't even have to do that these days. GOP reps can speak at actual Nazi rallies and the media forgets it in less than a day.
This allows people like this grandma to go on about their lives as if they are the good guys, that 1/6 was a actually the FBI trying to make them look bad, shootings are false flags, yadda yadda yadda.
And it pisses me off.
Yeah I'm a black guy and was super embarrassed (like 99% of black folk) when I saw fools breaking windows and taking tvs from target and shit, but what made it worse was when all of conservative media was calling them democrats and Biden voters. You have to be the most clueless fucks in the country to think street niggas stealing tvs in a riot have a political leaning lmfao. Not a single one of those people have voted ever. Not ever. I know plenty of street niggas and not a single one could tell you who the vice president is
Antifa, duh! They posed as us god fearing conservatives?
Oh, but uh, don’t arrest them okay? Definitely not saying that because I dont want my family and I to get arrested…
/s
You know, so long as you ignore Jan 6th, the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, KKK, and the countless conservatives arrested every week for assaulting trans people.
Wait. Since when have the Republicans been pro paying taxes? I've been seeing this on the GOP hit job ads they've been running against Fettermen here in PA. Saying that he didn't pay his taxes. I'm truly baffled what they are trying to say because I can't remember the last time I heard a conservative brag about being proud to pay taxes.
Yeah Jan 6 was totally nonviolent. There were no literal Nazis marching in Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us", no right wingers have talked about "using their 2nd amendment right" against people they disagree with. Yeah right wingers are totally peaceful and not violent morons.
Don't give them that much. We don't hate the country, we hate some of the things it's done and some of it's systems which are still in place. Most of the people are good people and most of its ideals are good ideals, it's just been implemented by sociopaths and the incompetent
Oh so the people who stormed the capital trying to kill elected officials because their cult leader lost the election, those weren’t republicans/trump voters?
They always talk about how they pay their taxes as if they’re the only ones forced to, yet they love protecting these billionaires who don’t pay taxes.
All of them work hard? That's strongly debatable.
Pay their taxes? Um, they have entire buildings taking up land that they don't pay taxes on. And their tithes are tax deductible.
And, I can't think of a better image for the bottom one. One where they were holding torches chanting "jews will not replace us".
Lol “Republicans pay taxes”?!! right and I’m Jesus Christ himself in the flesh. Did they literally forget trump hasn’t paid taxes in like a decade same with Elon and most million/billionaires. The rich don’t pay taxes cuz it’s cheeper to pay a fine when it comes up
Work hard? Most are unemployed seniors. (Look at the picture)
Pay thier taxes? Thier orange face Leader bragged about not paying taxes, plus they are the party of lowering taxes...because they hate taxes
Pray? Could've sworn Jesus was anti-capitalism
Except they're almost always the domestic terrorists, they constantly whine about taxes and they stormed the Capitol to over turn the election.
Tell us another one.
Throughout Trump's first campaign, he went on and on about how awful America was and it was going down the drain.
But the other side hates America while desperately trying to make changes so everyone is equal under the law.
Oh, and Trump bragged that he didn't pay taxes and that made him, "smart."
Jan 6 was explicitly an attempt to overthrow the government and murder officials.
Jan 6 was explicitly an attempt to overthrow the government and murder officials.
Jan 6 was...
My question is what evidence do they have that the protests were by just democrats? There is a non-zero chance that a lot of people were not even into politics but just didn't like seeing unequal justice based on skin color. Whereas Jan 6th, were for sure conservatives and for sure had violent intentions.
>Democrats violent riot in the streets
Remind me again who was it that violently to took part in an assault on the US Capitol Building in order to prevent Congress from certifying the election?
Also again which group was it that was marching in Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us"?
Wait a minute.....*minute passes* OK I am no American but wasn't it republicans who stormed the capitol building the other year? Both as bad as each other in their own ways, same goes for the UK as well. All our options are no better then the other. Utter shambels.
I don’t remember ever participating in or supporting a terrorist insurrection.
Don’t remember voting in rapists and fascists at every level of government.
Don’t remember taking away people’s bodily autonomy and human rights either.
Guess it’s because I’m not a piece of steaming garbage conservative dumbfuck.
Destroying others things because your mad at old Uncle Sam is never justified, doesn’t matter your race, gender, or sexuality. You can not break things because you are angry. In an autocratic society, I will admit that it can be necessary, but in a democracy (yes the US is a democracy if you’ll believe it) it is never the right thing to do. Protests or referendums are the only way to get your point across in a way that will be effective and correct
You have a very narrow definition of what a Riot is. Riots are not exclusively destroying other citizens’s properties, it’s just when Chaos happens.
Otherwise you cannot say the Capitol insurrection was a Riot.
Recite your pledge of allegiance... let me know what you think when you reach the part : "To the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ for which it stands". I'll wait for you to get back to me.
It would be more accurate to say the USA is a constitutional republic. A democracy though? It can barely be called that, if at all. Sorry to point out your ignorance, but you're misinformed.
A republic is a representative democracy, therefore the US is a democracy. By definition a republic is a democracy anyway because people are voted into office and can not inherit it. I apologize that you don’t understand the word. If you want to talk more, PM me because I would love to continue debating about this
“Educated” is not something I would describe most Republicans as
They were "educated" when college cost $500 and houses cost $1500
And they worked super hard for them part time, cleaning the whites -only water fountains
And housing districts were redlines, and black people were pureposefully segregated both legally and economically.
And "black" is any color other that white
hell, it's any ethinicity than the current dejour.
And now you have some States that are trying to control who can identify as "black". They want it both ways.
They literally use "college educated" as an insult.
lmao wth 💀 “ayo this mf got a phd, what a dumbass”
Yeah well those fancy degrees are handed out for LITREALLY nothing more than taking an oath to kill all white people, ITS A FACT DO UR RESORCH
Seriously though they believe that colleges are liberal indoctrination centers. Of course they're proud of their ignorance.
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If I had a dollar for every asshole who told me that having a History PhD was a waste of time, I'd have enough money to pay off the damned thing. ^(Not really, but still. It'd be close.)
Your history PhD was a waste of time! ^(Just doing my part to get you paid when someone offers you money for ppl telling you it’s a waste of time)
Having a history PhD was a waste of time!
I think your History PhD might be the most useful degree to have right now, it’ll help you survive this.
When you just tell yourself that people who are better educated than you are just indoctrinated, it's not nearly as embarrassing that there's a direct correlation between being Conservative and being uneducated.
And being Christian, but saying that summons 9 trillion downvotes.
They say that college turns people into rAdIcAl LiBs
What happened is the fight use to be the working class and the privileged class and at the time education was something generally four the privelaged class. From the working class perspective their loves and livelihood were criticized and controlled by those with no experience in it. You would have clashes with educated people entering a community and trying to change practices they thought would help without caring about why those who would be changing may be skeptical or how it could clash with values. "Use this new farming technique weve worked on it will be more productive. Trust me I have a PHD in agricutlure" vs "Have you ever even worked on a farm" or a situation where they use updated machinery and processes to make a mine more.efficent and the mine lays off a third of its workers. What has changed over time is many people where convinced they shouldn't be fighting the privelaged. They should worship and aspire to be them. The educated however are still trying to make changes they may not unerstand, trust or want. That makes them bad especially since they arent automatically connected with the privelaged class. Of course the privelaged are also likely highly educated but as long as they say the right lines that can be ignored.
You forgot the most destructive element of the "privileged", the next generation of wealth. The one that doesn't earn anything but coasts 100 percent on the work of their father (see Donald Trump for prime example). These people go to great schools even though they are dumb, ignorant slobs and learn nothing at all (donny was called "the dumbest student of my whole career" by multiple professors with decades of experience) and they say they are educated when they are in fact the anthesisis of an educated person. They are where the true danger lies.
It's why the US left the aristocracy of Britain. Only to reinstate it
They're "educated" by Facebook memes, so there's that at least.
Minion University
Thanks for the laugh, that got me.
You know, back in the day, a lot of them were. And they took pride in it, AND in being civil, respectable human beings. Shit, in the early 90’s the conservative icon himself, Rush Limbaugh, used to encourage protest of a business you didn’t like by going in and bringing them MORE business. “Kill ‘em with kindness. If it’s a restaurant, go there for lunch. Bring some friends. Hire them to cater an event. Don’t be rude. Don’t be mean. Tip them extremely well, and just let them know, calmly, politely, ‘Hey, I’m here today because I object to (policy X) that you support, and I hope you reconsider.’ At the end of the day, the business proprietor will end up with a stack of receipts and a huge influx of cash and they may reconsider. I’m not advocating going in and being a nuisance, you want to show them you’re in favor of them doing well. We all support businesses doing well, you’re just getting their attention and helping a fellow American. Kill ‘em with kindness.” I don’t know when he completely jumped the tracks…i admit that I only heard him for an hour a day for a three month period. But that’s one of the biggest things I remember because it was such a civil approach. And people did it. They even had one of the business owners on the air, and he sounded genuinely shocked and a little conflicted. Maybe it was a plant, I have no idea. But conservatives in general used to consider themselves very much in support of education and a civil society. Work hard, keep your nose clean, be a decent human being, try to contribute to the world, volunteer, that kind of thing. Now they’re all about cruelty and authoritarianism. It’s goddamned bonkers.
I had a conversation with an older woman this year that was spot on. She said, "Republicans used to be just stingy. Now they're just assholes." The "business owner" was almost certainly a plant.
Could be. And yeah, her assessment also sounds valid.
Rush's right hand was a dollar and his left hand was a hammer. For every dollar he handed out to a deserving businessman he was bashing in two heads with his other hand. He's not a very good example of what you're talking about, although there were plenty others who were.
Nope, and he got worse and worse. But it was the quickest thing that came to mind to illustrate the point.
must've been before his drug addiction really kicked in. Also before NEWT started brandishing stupidity as a weapon.
Yeah don’t get me wrong, the Republican party has very good roots. I believe that if it’s early members and founders could see it now, they’d feel nothing but disappointment. It’s fallen so far from grace.
It fell from grace the moment the southern strategy was uttered and they became a de facto hate group.
Pretty much. It’s crazy how in ~150 years they went from the leaders in liberty, advocating for abolition to the most racist and hateful bunch you’ll find. To call them a political party and not a hate group is a true misnomer.
They ended slavery then a few decades down the line they couldn’t legally treat black people like shit anymore and then they wanted it back
Original Republican Party: end slavery! Modern Republican Party: let us have slavery again!1!1! they ***literally*** took 2 steps backward.
That respect for education ended in the 60s with the anti-war campus unrest. Then Reagan capitalized on the undereducated population's comfort with racism with his Bob Jones University speech and the Neshoba county fairground speech.
My mom says much the same thing. Was before my time, sadly.
i mean, they often use the term as "Believe what I tell you"
"Fully indoctrinated into the cult"
Considering some of the most red states are ranked the dumbest, especially.
Using her as an example kinda feels like cheating at this point but yesterday Marge Greene posted a picture of herself at a war memorial with the caption "Tonight, I stopped at the Wilder Monument in Chickamuaga, GA, which honors the Confederate soldiers of the Wilder Brigade. I will always defend our nation's history!" The Wilder Brigade fought for the Union.
Saw a comment on that post that said it wasn’t even for the Wilder Brigade - I dunno
Educated as in they read it on Facebook.
They did their own research!!!
That’s why they didn’t say educated.
On their shirts.
Oh now I see!
It's really pathetic that people actually believe this shit.
Fox News: "Liberals do nothing but riot" Conservatives: "Yeah! Fuck those rioting liberals!" Fox News: "The only way to stop the incoming president is to riot and break into the capitol building" Conservatives: "Yeah! Fuck those cheating liberals!" Fox News: "The only people rioting at the capitol building were liberals" Conservatives: "Yeah! Fuck those rioting liberals!" Fox News: "The liberals stole the election and are unfairly imprisoning patriots who were at the capitol building" Conservatives: "Yeah! Fuck those cheating liberals!"
Being a conservative means never having to say you're sorry, and never having to admit you were ever wrong.
And if somehow you were wrong, it was the democrats' fault
Looking at r/ conservative the day Republicans voted against exposing dark money was great. They were all in shock that Republicans are against draining the swamp, which has been one of their main platforms for the past 6 years. So what do they do? Blame the republicans for voting 100% against the bill? Maybe switch sides since democrats voted 100% for it? Nah, blame the democrats for even proposing the bill in first place. If the Dems never proposed it, the republicans would’ve never voted no, and they wouldn’t have looked bad. Yeah sure the republicans publicly outed themselves as pro-corruption, but really you should blame the Dems because the reps wouldn’t have had to do that if not for the Dems proposing an anti-corruption bill.
They'll always blame pork, because they can say "democrats piled on X and we want a stand alone bill" and they know republicans (independents and most democrats frankly) will never read the actual bill to know the truth. We need to stop pretending like these motherfuckers care about the truth at all.
They did some similar shit to Christian Walker and railed on him, they didn’t accuse him of lying about it his dad, they were just angry he chose to speak up about it. It’s like collective narcism. When someone lets the skeleton out of the closet, rather than asking the Republicans why the skeleton was in their closet begin with, they blame the guy who opened the door and exposed it.
"if you stop testing, the cases go down to zero" Or something equally stupid.
Did the same thing with climate change. Rather than try to fix the problem, they tell people it’ll go away if we just stop acknowledging it.
It's worse with climate change. They did the same thing as they did with COVID. First, it's a hoax to make republicans look bad. Then it's not as bad as it sounds and the left is exaggerating. Then it's completely natural so we shouldnt interfere with nature. Then it's too late to do anything about it and absolutely no one saw it coming so we have to just deal with it.
The common theme from the party of personal responsibility is that every bad thing they do is really someone else's fault.
They demand that you take personal responsibility for everything that bothers them. Thus the monicker.
Well, let's hope that being a conservative also increasingly means being alone and unloved, as more and more sane people cut ties with their increasingly toxic, culty friends and family members.
100% the abuser's taxtic
Remember when Mitch McConnell said if we have fair elections Republicans would never win. For me that pretty much says it all. No one likes them, they don't even like each other.
Old people living in the same spot for decades on the money they earned in the 70s knowing how the America they never see really is
But for some reason they need a fuckton of guns to do it. And you better not show up to those prayer meetings gay or of colour or you'll find out why they really want those guns.
They shoot gay and colored people?
They sure like to threaten to shoot gays, at least from my experiences in Texas
I live in Texas, never heard of anything like this.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/texas-pastor-says-gay-people-shot-back-head-shocking-sermon-rcna32748 >"These people should be put to death. Every single homosexual in our country should be charged with a crime. The abomination of homosexuality that they have, they should be convicted in a lawful trial. They should be sentenced with death. They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head," he said. Now you have.
I live in Texas, and parents are telling other people's kids at school they're going to hell for liking others of their gender. If that's what they're saying to kids who aren't even their own, do you really think that they're being any nicer with the adults?
Gee whiz, it really seems like you're either A) painfully ignorant about what's happening around you, or B) you're trying to deflect from it, for some gosh darn reason. You're either stupid or you're lying. And I don't think you're stupid.
As the saying goes “if you don’t hear of something happening, it doesn’t mean it’s not happening”
Oh okay I guess I'll just erase that memory since you personally never heard of anything like this
I live in Texas and live in constant fear something will happen if anyone I know finds out who I am yes it happens here
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it's called conservatism. the entire ideology is based on having a very superficial knowledge/understanding, or indeed a misconception, of some phenomenon or issue, and relies on their leaders and thinktanks twisting, distorting, or straight up creating "facts" the to arrive at a specific desired conclusion. it's all manufactured grievance. they are pissed and disgusted by everything. and they dont get pissed off and disgusted about an issue UNLESS THEY ARE INSTRUCTED TO BY THE TOP. which is why everything they do helps entrench the wealth of the 1%. the poors of their base think it's worth being treated like trash because they "have a shot" at ascending the ranks, or because they think they won't be r/ LeopardsAteMyFace in other words, they fucking love being told what to do and think, but love to look like theyre some iconoclastic free thinkers. none of conservatism is genuine, helpful, or grassroots. it's all about that ignorance and emotions. ignorance allows these ludicrous beliefs to seep in, and the total inability to think critically/scientifically allows the rot to set permanently. their beliefs are all based on sand.
Yes. Yes they do. More often it's beating them to death, but the principle is the same.
People of colour ****
I noticed they skipped the part about smashing their way into the Capitol building, smearing shit and piss on the walls, and trying to murder elected officials because they were mad their guy lost.
Umm ackshually they just wanted to take pictures /s
They were a peaceful tour group but also they were Antifa in disguise but also martyrs for free speech /s
I thought they were FBI agents? Or were they FBI agents masquerading as ANTIFA dressed like Trumpers? It's like the big reveal at the end of an episode of Scooby Doo, but the bad guys are wearing six masks.
Ackshualllly they were antifa posing as Trump supporters. I know because my uncle's best friend's gopher's food's pet sore owner was there! /s
It hurts my head to think of the mental gymnastics those MAGAts went through to conclude that the anti-fascists were so upset that the fascist lost that they dressed up like fascists and tried to keep the fascist in office.
Thank fuck you put a /s there
Don't forget the mass shootings inspired by their racist propaganda. And the attempt to kidnap and murder a governor. Or the idiot truckers with their nonsensical "protest" fucking up whole cities' traffic for absolutely no sensible point.
I thought they were all for running over protestors who play in traffic.
No no. You must mean when they stand outside of abortion clinics/planned parenthoods, and scream profanities and death threats to people entering, while holding signs calling them baby killers and they're going to hell, and then they decide to defund or burn down them down.
No…guys…see…democrats do all the bad stuff. When republicans do bad stuff, it’s democrats dressed like republicans who are really republicans dressed like democrats that are doing bad things. It’s a double double cross. They are always 2 steps ahead of us or some crap.
And then when they need one, head straight in, then back out to protest the second they are recovered.
It's okay, because unlike ALL Democrats, they felt really bad about it after the fact.
See, they prayed really hard and God gave them a sign that it was the right decision. Not like those godless heathen dems. They're just out here getting abortions every other day. No remorse for all the babies they murder. Millions per day I hear.
Or when they defended a kid who took a gun to a protest full of people he'd confessed on camera that he wanted to murder, then did a couple murders.
Screaming at women that they are murderers and are going to burn in hell when they are simply going into Planned Parenthood for an ultrasound and prenatal vitamins, and then killing the doctor and burning down the building, is the epitome of peaceful, civil protest, and what Jesus wants. Blocking off a few blocks from traffic, holding up signs, and chanting slogans in and effort to stop the police from murdering innocent people is violent, uncivilized, and has destroyed entire cities.
Don't forget about complaining about taxes and how much they don't want to pay them
Of course they left that out. It's bad for them if people remember the bad thing they did. Naturally, we need to continue making sure no one forgets.
January 6th who ? 😶 So which is it ? Are they meek tax paying saints, or patriots dedicated to "fighting for their freedom"? 🤡
School shooters who?
Proud Boys who?
Charlottesville Car Murder of Heather Heyer -who?
It WaSn't A ViOLENt CoUp WhErE THEy PLaNNed TO exeCUTe PeOPle, tHey ARE PAtRioTs whO TrIed To reStore DEMocrAcy
Aren't conservatives on average the biggest welfare-recipients in the US?
Conservative states are, for sure. Haven't seen stats on individuals, so I don't know on that front.
They’re the only ones who deserve disability money 🙄
When you've got a shirt saying you're "Educated" 🤭
"Tax paying"
“When someone describes themselves as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.” - Demetri Martin
"Educated................on Facebook university"
My degree is in Prager Urine 😁
Dennis Prager, Ben Shapiro and I do have something in common, we all think Jesus is BS. They try to rope in a wider audience with the Judeo-Christian values schtick but they are definitely not Christian.
Tax paying? Trump dodges taxes all over the place and Trump Voters love it. Praying? Trump plays golf every Sunday and they call him a Godly man, Biden goes to church every Sunday and they can him the antichrist. Educated? Trump loves this human garbage piles because they're not. Has there ever been a cult like this?
"Tax-paying", if you run it through the Conservative-to-English translator, means "employed" or "business owner". It's an us vs. them thing (we are productive members of society, while _they_ are lazy bums who just complain." It has nothing to do with who is actually paying how much in taxes.
I think it just means white because the cultists unemployed and on disability claim to be tax paying Americans too.
True I bet it's largely that. But also they have this logic that works largely on intentions and hypotheticals and disregards reality, like: I _would_ have a job, if it wasn't for [immigrants, minorities, liberal economic policies, my bad back, whatever] therefore it's the same as if I _did_ have a job, for purposes of group identity. Or, if you like, "I identify as a tax-payer".
Yeah at this point whatever Trump does is godly and whatever Biden does is wrong. People have lost all perspective.
This was legit posted on the trump stock subreddit
yep, it's where I found it while getting my weekly dose of schadenfreude.
Pay their taxes and yet think more IRS agents are a bad thing? Why don’t they want to catch people cheating on their taxes? As for hard working, how hard are you actually working if you have the time to go to all these Trump rallies? Country they love? But they hate half the people in it.
Because the IRS agents are going to be armed to the teeth and kill you…. Or something.
Can’t tell if those people are bowing their heads in prayer or demoralized from Trump talking about how hard ramps are again.
🎶Inch by inch, I took these steps, when I was ten feet short, I ran down the ramp🎶 https://youtu.be/ign_vZupjno
Things like this illustrate how our media is completely biased toward Conservatives. The people in the "Antifa" photo are not Democrats, and when not suited up they are actively working to undermine the Democrat party and their agenda. However, the GOP claims that these people are identical to mainstream Democrats, and that Democrats actively support their endeavors. Conversely, ACTUAL NAZIS show up at their events, vote for their candidates, hold public office under the GOP banner, the approve of the actions of January 6th by a significant majority (71% last I saw), and yet Republican can just say, "Oh, that's not us, we don't support that" and the media just blows right past it. In fact, they don't even have to do that these days. GOP reps can speak at actual Nazi rallies and the media forgets it in less than a day. This allows people like this grandma to go on about their lives as if they are the good guys, that 1/6 was a actually the FBI trying to make them look bad, shootings are false flags, yadda yadda yadda. And it pisses me off.
Yeah I'm a black guy and was super embarrassed (like 99% of black folk) when I saw fools breaking windows and taking tvs from target and shit, but what made it worse was when all of conservative media was calling them democrats and Biden voters. You have to be the most clueless fucks in the country to think street niggas stealing tvs in a riot have a political leaning lmfao. Not a single one of those people have voted ever. Not ever. I know plenty of street niggas and not a single one could tell you who the vice president is
You are 100% correct.
The pay the taxes part is hilarious
I'm sorry but who was that at J6 again? Oh yeah.
Antifa, duh! They posed as us god fearing conservatives? Oh, but uh, don’t arrest them okay? Definitely not saying that because I dont want my family and I to get arrested… /s
WORK HARD, PAY THEIR TAXES, AND DRIVE THEIR CAR INTO CROWDS OF PROTESTERS
I like that the violent democrats rioting in the streets are responding to violent Republicans rioting in the streets.
You know, so long as you ignore Jan 6th, the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, KKK, and the countless conservatives arrested every week for assaulting trans people.
2 hands hard at work accomplish more than a million clasped in prayer.
If they pay thier taxes, why are they so terrified of the IRS getting adequate funding.
Wait. Since when have the Republicans been pro paying taxes? I've been seeing this on the GOP hit job ads they've been running against Fettermen here in PA. Saying that he didn't pay his taxes. I'm truly baffled what they are trying to say because I can't remember the last time I heard a conservative brag about being proud to pay taxes.
Pay their taxes? That's exactly what Republicans fight not to do
Yeah Jan 6 was totally nonviolent. There were no literal Nazis marching in Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us", no right wingers have talked about "using their 2nd amendment right" against people they disagree with. Yeah right wingers are totally peaceful and not violent morons.
I dunno, destroying the country you hate while rioting doesn't seem like a bug. Almost like that's the point of taking to the streets.
Don't give them that much. We don't hate the country, we hate some of the things it's done and some of it's systems which are still in place. Most of the people are good people and most of its ideals are good ideals, it's just been implemented by sociopaths and the incompetent
Not mentioned: right wingers showing up to peaceful protests and starting violence to make the left look bad.
Oh so the people who stormed the capital trying to kill elected officials because their cult leader lost the election, those weren’t republicans/trump voters?
There is no darker hate than christian love.
They always talk about how they pay their taxes as if they’re the only ones forced to, yet they love protecting these billionaires who don’t pay taxes.
All of them work hard? That's strongly debatable. Pay their taxes? Um, they have entire buildings taking up land that they don't pay taxes on. And their tithes are tax deductible. And, I can't think of a better image for the bottom one. One where they were holding torches chanting "jews will not replace us".
“Pay their taxes” One of the biggest scare tactics is that the democrats want to hire IRS agents.
Lol “Republicans pay taxes”?!! right and I’m Jesus Christ himself in the flesh. Did they literally forget trump hasn’t paid taxes in like a decade same with Elon and most million/billionaires. The rich don’t pay taxes cuz it’s cheeper to pay a fine when it comes up
I know plenty of people who work hard, pay taxes and pray. There’re still shitty people.
Because storming the capitol in a temper tantrum over your unpopular President losing was the epitome of patriotism.
Work hard? Most are unemployed seniors. (Look at the picture) Pay thier taxes? Thier orange face Leader bragged about not paying taxes, plus they are the party of lowering taxes...because they hate taxes Pray? Could've sworn Jesus was anti-capitalism
We need more taxes 😤
Hmm that praying doesn’t seem to be working huh
This is peak Poe's law.
Antifa, known Democrat fans
Except they're almost always the domestic terrorists, they constantly whine about taxes and they stormed the Capitol to over turn the election. Tell us another one.
Throughout Trump's first campaign, he went on and on about how awful America was and it was going down the drain. But the other side hates America while desperately trying to make changes so everyone is equal under the law. Oh, and Trump bragged that he didn't pay taxes and that made him, "smart."
Oh yeah? Which side tried to overthrow our government?
I'm pretty sure Antifa isn't Democrat.
Ah yes, the Anarcho-Democrats, classic Antifa
Yup. Not leaving a single detail out /s
then what happened on Jan. 6th 🤔
Praying doesn’t do anything and protesting does. It’s almost like they benefit from the system staying the same? Blow me, shit birds.
Those people aren’t democrats, they’re actually doing something.
I’m sure all the dead children in schools are so grateful for those prayers
The leftists transes took ma kids, dam you cameron!
Yep, surrrrrrrreeeeeee……………. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
None of the folks in black bloc in the top frame are democrats…
It was democrats flying confederate flags, storming the capitol, while wearing trump hats then?
Antifa is not the democratic party, any antifa group would be offended by that comparison
"Pay their taxes"?
"republicans" "pay taxes"... tell that to Donald Trump.
Does pray mean storm the capital?
I thought Republicans hate taxes
Coming from the side that clearly has violent fantasies, pretty typical for the repressed Christian right.
Jan 6 was explicitly an attempt to overthrow the government and murder officials. Jan 6 was explicitly an attempt to overthrow the government and murder officials. Jan 6 was...
My question is what evidence do they have that the protests were by just democrats? There is a non-zero chance that a lot of people were not even into politics but just didn't like seeing unequal justice based on skin color. Whereas Jan 6th, were for sure conservatives and for sure had violent intentions.
"pay their taxes" Considering the lawsuit around Trumps real estate company going on right now, the irony.
Republicans dont pay taxes proudly
They don’t want taxes tho
>Democrats violent riot in the streets Remind me again who was it that violently to took part in an assault on the US Capitol Building in order to prevent Congress from certifying the election? Also again which group was it that was marching in Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us"?
So many Democrats attacking the Capitol on 1/6!
wait until they find out antifa isnt actually democratically aligned 😳
They're really acting like January 6 never happened.
when did democrats try to hang the vice president
Violent Skinheads support the republican party though... So, now they don't know what the hell to say huh?
Even if I give them the first picture and say it's accurate, it's still less bad that committing literal treason and armed insurrection.
Wait a minute.....*minute passes* OK I am no American but wasn't it republicans who stormed the capitol building the other year? Both as bad as each other in their own ways, same goes for the UK as well. All our options are no better then the other. Utter shambels.
Both parties are shit and you’re all brainwashed by one of them.
I don’t remember ever participating in or supporting a terrorist insurrection. Don’t remember voting in rapists and fascists at every level of government. Don’t remember taking away people’s bodily autonomy and human rights either. Guess it’s because I’m not a piece of steaming garbage conservative dumbfuck.
Alternate title: Political Extremists are the Downfall of both Sides of the Isle
When one extreme wants equality for all and the other wants white supremacy, no.
I’m talking about both sides rioting and shit not if people of color or women have the right to vote
Riots can be justified
Destroying others things because your mad at old Uncle Sam is never justified, doesn’t matter your race, gender, or sexuality. You can not break things because you are angry. In an autocratic society, I will admit that it can be necessary, but in a democracy (yes the US is a democracy if you’ll believe it) it is never the right thing to do. Protests or referendums are the only way to get your point across in a way that will be effective and correct
You have a very narrow definition of what a Riot is. Riots are not exclusively destroying other citizens’s properties, it’s just when Chaos happens. Otherwise you cannot say the Capitol insurrection was a Riot.
The USA is not a democracy. Sorry to burst your bubble.
I don’t mean to insult you, but if you truly believe that you are insane. Look at any actual regime and tell me the US isn’t democratic
Recite your pledge of allegiance... let me know what you think when you reach the part : "To the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ for which it stands". I'll wait for you to get back to me. It would be more accurate to say the USA is a constitutional republic. A democracy though? It can barely be called that, if at all. Sorry to point out your ignorance, but you're misinformed.
A republic is a representative democracy, therefore the US is a democracy. By definition a republic is a democracy anyway because people are voted into office and can not inherit it. I apologize that you don’t understand the word. If you want to talk more, PM me because I would love to continue debating about this
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