Progressive Politics

Both.

Conservatives have nothing of value to contribute to discussions. I say that on the basis of having made serious attempts at engagement with them. They are very anti-intellectual and bring down the quality of discussion to quips and shouting matches. BlueMAGA types are similar, but they are at least toned down a few degrees, and importantly, they aren't openly bigoted and exclusionary. Like, you're never going to have trans people and MAGA coexisting in the same online spaces and I'd much rather have the former than the latter, as there's a much higher probability of them saying something worthwhile.

It's like, imagine two doctors trying to discuss the intricacies of their field in a room where a conspiracy theorist, like, say, Jimmy Dore for example, is listening in for some phrase they can twist around and take out of context and attack them with. That's what it's like having conservatives in an online space.

Outside of online spaces, conservatives are largely incompatible with a functioning society, they don't understand basic concepts needed for the government to function, and their heads are instead filled with a bunch of harmful and objectively wrong ideas. They will fight tooth and nail against their own interests just to stop anyone else from having good things.

On the rare occasions when they accidentally stumble into a correct take, it's because they're wrong twice, and it only muddies the waters for people who have a similar take for coherent reasons.

Name one thing that conservatives contribute to any discussion that's worth listening to.