Some friends I just can’t shake

hard enough

around the neck

with a firm grip

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Aw come on… they’re not trying to end your existence. They just don’t want to be alive or exist.

      Okay wait actually some DO want to end your existence directly. But most wished if you just died.

    • Bipta@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      I love that they excuse their vote as anything else.

      I just want a tax cut. (and don’t care about the republic or my friends’ lives)

      • cygon@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        And said tax cut will work like this:

        Step 1: Before it happens, you’re asked to publicly dream about what an extra $4000 will do for you on social media. Step 2: Once it passes, you get a 0.1% tax cut. Enough for one extra pizza. Per year. The bill will also includes 3 tax raises only for the poor, one every 4 years that follow. Step 3: The corporation you work for, meanwhile, gets a 16% tax cut. With it, they’ll announce a $2000 one-time payment to all workers. Which will be rescinded as soon as it’s been reported about on local news. The bill also includes 3 further, even bigger tax cuts for the rich, one every 4 years.

        End result: taxes raised on the poor, taxes lowered for the rich, but lots of social media euphoria from the working class, lots of newspaper clippings of bosses giving their workers generous one-time payments (that never materialized). And next election cycle, Fox News can dig up all the happy reports and the truth of the matter has never even entered the attention span of the royally-effed-over working class voters.

    • 52fighters@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      10 months ago

      If you were to try to argue their view, I think they would say that their only problem is when you exhibit immortal behavior. Their definition of immoral behavior isn’t the only historic definition but is certainly a prominent one.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I have [a] conservative family.

    To be conservative in 2024, you have to dismiss that some people in our community are miserable and every day we leave them to their fate is heinous.

    In the US, a failure to vote [against] any given Republican (by voting [for] an opposing democrat) is another step towards autocracy and genocide. Every Republican in office is a force towards the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 project, by which they will unmake the meager democratic features and civil rights that remain in the US.

    Conservatives believe, by the natural extrapolation of their positions and behavior, I have no right to exist. (Curiously, this includes my own father, who simultaneously facilitates political efforts seeking out my extinction while expressing a dissonant interest in my well-being. He doesn’t dare connect the two in his mind.)

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    I don’t have Muslim friends who preach for all out jihad and the destruction of American democracy.

    I don’t have conservative friends who preach for all out insurrection and the destruction of American democracy.

    Some choices aren’t difficult.

  • rrastro@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    10 months ago

    I have conservative friends. Almost all of them oppose Trump. The point you think you’re making isn’t as clear as you think. The narrative of someone using the “I’m a conservative and I’m being silenced/discriminated” isn’t coming from actual conservatives but rather from MAGA and white nationalist clowns pushing a hateful, un-Christian, not actually classic conservative agenda.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    I don’t agree with the fascist lifestyle. I think they should keep it behind closed doors. On another planet. Not this one.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    There’s nothing a conservative hates more than being judged by who they are as people. They think that tolerance means being a complete moral vacuum and accepting any sort of malevolence and violence. This is because they see people being tolerant of PoC, queer people and non-Christians and they also see membership in those categories as moral failings.