MemesIf they censor your opponents, then they censor you next.
Or if you are AdmiralPatrick you censor the word censor
Or if you're old enough just think back to the mid-90s Internet, when conservatives still had 12:00 blinking on their VCRs.
That's not entirely fair. I know a dude who was a tech for the US army and is conservative. Dipshit told me he voted for Trump 4 times in 2016, which is the last time we spoke. It was an, uh, interesting conversation
Imagine a world where the people were smart enough to not put conservative content out into the world
How would I know who I'm supposed to hate?
You would think
On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, this is exactly what AdmiralPatrick had in his mind.
No, AdmiralPatrick imagined a world where no one hears anyone say genocide is bad or trans people exist.
Like all centrists.
Then lets just censor thought terminating cliche, which makes up most of the conservative thought, and also stop billionaires funding chuds.
“We aren’t really being persecuted, but imagine we were? Wow, that feels bad. That bad feeling justifies anything we want to do.”
The conservative thought process in a nutshell.
"I hate the smell of coffee. Let's go to a coffee shop and demand it smell good TO ME" is the one I grew up with
So... Espresso is pretty great
it'd be bad, really bad.
Online Censorship is always really bad and this'll just lead to more issues and echo chambers
Except they're he censorship party, not their opponents, so the only way this could be true is if they stop posting content. Utopia
Legitimately the Internet was a better place before conservatives figured out how to use it.
so...never?
just because they weren't old boomers doesn't mean the nazi 14 yr olds were somehow not conservatives. If you could find any of the old longbeards from early unix forums and asked them their opinions on minorities I'm sure you'd get fun responses. They were always here, the difference is that they didn't feel legitimized.
They got in early. I remember researching the Holocaust for a school assignment in the late nineties/early aughts and the top result was a conspiracy theorist/Holocaust denial screed. An openly racist one with slurs and epithets throughout, no less. The early internet was wild.
There was also Stormfront, a white supremacist forum with hundreds of thousands of accounts. Members openly detailed their plans to infiltrate police precincts and federal agencies by having fellow Stormfronters already employed there vouch for them, with the goal of creating a network of supporters throughout the entire law enforcement apparatus to advance their supremacist agenda and sabotage any investigations into them. Looking at the news, it's not hard to imagine they succeeded.
Ummm.... isn't that called a dictatorship?
fascist*
conservative are christian democrats (in the US a close equivalent would be Rockefeller Reps, à la Charlie Baker. Those are the real Reps.
a conservative is interested in keeping things as is, stable, favouring democracy (even if imperfect). They prefer to avoid a perceived 'haste' in change, but do not outright oppose it.
a fascist opposes both; they above all break down labour rights and align with the reactionary, irresponsible bourgeoise, rather than the proletariat whose labour they employ. Fascism favours the radical change into militarism to enforce its will, rather than building bridges through dialogue.
Yeah, people always confuse reactionaries with conservatives. They are different philosophies entirely.
The dems in America are a lot closer to what conservatism classically is than republicans have been in over 50 years.
ike was the last of his kind. the civil rights acts of the 1960s broke the republican party... voter rights, desegregation... they could not (and still cannot) handle those people being equal. the 'modern' republican party is defined by their hatred.
a conservative is interested in keeping things as is, stable, favouring democracy (even if imperfect).
This has never been the case. People calling themselves conservatives have always been all about tearing down existing systems in order to magically replace them with a fever dream about how it was "in the good old days". Conservatism has always been a destructive and dangerous ideology.
Nah, man. Conservatives are the basic irritation of an old man like myself not wanting to change, because it's fine. I finally understand the world and then these transes come along and want me to change the way I talk? Can't they just pick a lane? Booo!
(I try not to listen to that urge in me, btw, and as a result I have accepted my bisexual self, got a cool trans-masc boyfriend at age 46 after a 20 year drought, had some seriously good sex, and gained a lot of fun new ideas. I understand conservatism, and I can respect it in some contexts, but I prefer progress.)
Reactionaries, though, they are spoiled brats. Instead of just refusing to change, they actively try to destroy what they fear. They try to control other people because they cannot accept that anyone else has rights. They are sociopaths, and they control the USA.
They call themselves conservatives, and they hide amomgst conservatives, but they are different.
Regressive militaristic enforcement of hierarchy and in/out groups is absolutely “conservatism” at its core.
Some “conservatives” may not agree with every single point but the ideology remains the same.
I love how billionaires act like they’re arguing on behalf of the people they fleece, like they’re all in it together. It’s like a game of Lemmings. The ruling class leads them with rage bait and lies, and then walks them off a cliff when they’re done with them.
Working class people that think they’re in the big money club is as sad as it gets.
Also most of them defend billionaires fiercely. Its scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed with propaganda.
Just fork tesseract and replace the blocklist /s
Why the "\s"? That sounds like a most optimal solution!
Just remove half the blocklist, and instead of having a pure bland expetience, you'll instead get extremism pure.
What's there not to like?
Hmmm, reminds me of something... oh, yeah!
Imagine all the people living life in peace
The internet has become so much less angry in the last few days since I rigorously block everyone arguing in bad faith, reich-wingers and lemmy.ml
https://www.xkcd.com/2112/ ?
I mean I read a technical manual last night to fall asleep
Or that Garfield comic where on one side you got the grey Garfield toxically arguing a lot with people on Shitter, versus Garfield simply blocking.
Imagine US Education where the lunatic writings of Dennis Prager isn't part of the curriculum.
Or where it's held up as an example of "what not to do"
I think you are misinterpreting the post above. This is not a user with a "stop censoring me" avatar making a post about censoring others.
"Prager U" is a very conservative organization, they are not advocating for censoring conservatives.
The Simpsons image was not part of the original post, and is a reference to a scene where a lawyer said "imagine a world without lawyers" while shuddering in disgust and horror at the utopia he imagines.
The Simpsons image was not part of the original post
I see. Thanks for making things clear. I will delete my comment
Just stay completely in the walls of any Lemmy or piefed instance.
That is exactly why im here. You dont need to sell me twice.
