They don't actually give a shit about Charlie Kirk. They just want a catalyst for their enabling acts.
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Edit:Alex Jones is already basically comitting taking Kirk's "job" of going to colleges probably because he'd like a slice of those millions Kirk was paid.
These maga freaks would wear their friend's skin like a suit if it made them an extra dirty dollar.
He didn't just die. He was murdered. Just saying
I heard his neck just did that.
It's the old, "Smell my corsage." bit. Updated for a vampire inclusive society.
Oh do you mean like all the children that are dying in Gaza? No particular reason or anything, just dying. Sometimes (rarely) "killed", by whom you ask? Just killed, no need to discuss the matter any further.
What? You seem unhinged.
It is a reference to how western newspapers say there are "deaths" in Gaza without explaining who caused those deaths. In the same way CK was murdered, those people have also been murdered, but western media won't phrase it that way.
Democrat here. Didn’t want to burn it all down. Hoped there would be adults in the room to reel trump in like last time. Nope. He’s wrecking everything and I’m not sure it’s possible to put it all back together again even if it’s possible to put dems in charge.
I'm not sure it's possible to put it all back together again even if it's possible to put dems in charge.
We crossed this threshold on day 3.
I think they're mad. Charlie Kirk was their man, and he was so young, who knows what he could have been. Like, Trump is what, pushing 80? Plus he's a felon, everyone knows he's in the Epstein files... he is on his way out, in more ways than one. Kirk is a little cleaner. So all their hopes and dreams of keeping the coloured man down, keeping the "alphabet mafia" as Kirk called the LGBTQ+ community, down, were pinned on this guy, or at least a lot of those hopes, so yeah, they're pretty pissed.
Thing is, they weren't gonna let up on people of colour or people of different sexual identities/orientations anyway. And all signs show they were ramping up the violence against minorities. So yeah, they're mad, but when they say things like "now it's war" it's hard to know what they mean since they were waging war before.
It's like an abusive situation and a lot of these people are probably domestic abusers and come from that mindset. Like they were already going to do damage, but now that you've struck back? Oh, now you're really in trouble. But you were never not in trouble because the problem isn't you, it's them. They were always gonna be that way. We have to figure out how to get our country out from under this bullshit.
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I'm a conservative, and no. Charlie Kirk was awful. I'm a pacifist, so I'm not glad he's dead but I'm not surprised either. "Those who live by the sword" and all that.
"Burn it all down" flies straight in the face of conservatism anyway. It's all about tying to save the good things in society from destruction. When it feels like the government or society is all gone wrong is the time when it's most important to save what we can.
I'll be honest, it's hard to feel hopeful when our current President won reëlection on a deeply regressive platform. The man is hostile to any kind of conservatism because he hates checks on his power. His vocal wrath is directed against progressive standards because that's what riles up his base but at the same time he's doing damage to our government and social institutions that will last for generations. He's a nightmare for conservatism. But that just makes it all the more important to fight the tide. Giving up and burning it all down is not the answer.
Many years ago I got banned from r/conservative for asking where exactly conservation came into play as part of their ideology. On its face, being conservative sounds awesome. I want to conserve this planet's ecology. I want to conserve human rights. I have never seen any conservative American politician in the last thirty some-odd years try to conserve anything. It would be much more apt to call them regressionists, but they're so much worse than that.
But since you willingly identify yourself as a conservative, and you're here, what is your take?
Edit: After reading through your other responses... Never mind. I can see you are more a literalist when it comes to the definition of the word conservative, but that is not and has never been what the political ideology has been for or about. Your attempts to make it something it's not may be noble, if not misguided when you could just associate yourself with the people who believe in the same things you do.
I find it strange that anyone can look at the current US government and think it's "Conservative". The Republican Party has clearly become a radical, right wing, extremist, authoritarian, revolutionary sort of ideology. It's obvious they want to completely remake the government and all of society. They're not looking to conserve anything anymore.
There is no Republican Party any longer, they are as dead as the Whigs. They should only be referred to in an historical or scholarly context.
They are the MAGA Party now. They have nothing in common with the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc. MAGA embraces none of those foundational tenets, instead supporting and encouraging treason, racism, corruption, violence, genocide, pedophilia, misogyny, incompetence, ignorance, and more.
The Dems should hold a press conference, and unilaterally, but officially, declare the death of the Republican Party, and then never refer to them again, always calling them the MAGA Party. The MAGAs are proud of being Republicans, and they will go out of their minds over this.
They have nothing in common with the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc.
Well they are still all in on lower taxes, and traditional religious family values.
No, they aren't. Tariffs are taxes, and we are all paying much more, and it's going to get a lot worse.
And where does pedophilia and corruption fit into traditional religious family values?
Okay, you may have me there.
Increased tariffs, aren't going to compensate for the loss of the other taxes they cut. On balance it's still lower taxes, just not for the poor.
Pedophilia and corruption are unrelated to family values. I never mentioned them. Not sure what your getting at with that.
Tariffs are taxes, and tariffs have increased, therefore taxes have increased. Simple as that. No need to try to explain it away with magic math, taxes/ tariffs have increased. Period.
MAGAs are not interested in lower taxes on citizens, just for Sociopathic Oligarchs and Corporations. That does not count as "Lower Taxes" as a policy.
Pedophilia and corruption are unrelated to family values. I never mentioned them. Not sure what your getting at with that.
I mentioned them as core MAGA values in my original post. Your post made me reconsider them as MAGA RELIGIOUS family values, since pedophilia and corruption are core values of all religions.
Republicans aren’t conservatives since the tea party.
Exactly right.
I'm curious what it is about conservative ideology that appeals to you. Because I have come to the conclusion after several decades on this planet, that deep down (or I guess really not that deep at all) it is a destructive, and morally bankrupt philosophy.
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Nazis hate preachers aren't awful for conservatism, they ARE conservatism.
"But I'm just a fiscal conservative, the only REAL kind of conservative!"
You're joining forces with nazis. If you're not a nazi, you're a nazi collaberator. So please kindly go fuck yourself with your bullshit that only you believe.
Fiscal conservatism doesn't work, any economist can tell you that.
You're completely correct that conservatism destroyed its reputation when it allied with the religious right in an attempt at political power. The regressives took over the GOP, calling themself conservatives all the while. Terrible to watch from the outside, but like I said, giving up is not the answer. The only thing to do is push back, and try to save what can be saved.
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Conservatives are defined by the need to burn it all down. The point is that they see a horrible past as glorious, torture as duty, and war as peace.
It doesn't matter who dies or whatnot, everything is just a tool towards this goal, not the actual motivation behind it.
I'll worry about 50,000 other things today before the question of how conservatives are feeling crosses my mind. It's not important.
Trump & co are working towards stripping away the power of the people who already don’t have much power. I don’t think these two events are comparable.
Charlie Kirk might even have been killed by a far right Goyper. I’m not sure what conservatives can burn down apart from themselves.
" I’m not sure what conservatives can burn down apart from themselves."
Fucking everything. They want to burn it all down. Even if it doesn't affect them, they want to fuck it up.
The less you have, the more they have. They don't need more things to get comparitively richer, they just need to take things away from you. You wouldn't do that, because you're not mentally damaged, but they sure do at every opportunity.
I’m afraid that’s what they’re going to do, because they’re never rational. They will use this opportunity to accelerate their damaging politics.
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