I appreciate your peaceful motivations. I am not interested in offending you and I recognize we have very different life experiences and perspectives on this.

We disagree on some points regarding fault or whether being “brainwashed” is a factor in how culpable a sadistic, narcissistic, blood-thirsty bigot should be held. But, at the end of the day, the enemy we are discussing very much wants both of us to die. No amount of patience or Socratic method or kindness can change that (in my opinion).

I think our main disagreement comes down to how to handle being the targets of a violent enemy that can’t or won’t stop hating us. After a lifetime of pacifism, I have come to my own realization that peace simply cannot solve this problem. I see the danger increasing daily and my alarms are just getting louder and louder. I view my own inaction as a dereliction of responsibility. But, that doesn’t mean I expect you or any other victims of conservatism to be required to engage in violence.

I genuinely respect your preference for peace. I’ve held a similar position for the majority of my life. I really do wish I could still see things that way. And who knows? Maybe some poetic Deus ex Machina will descend from the heavens and make it all OK.

One thing I am confident about is that a conservative will never humanize us and will despise us until the day we (or they) die. Maybe you are right and brainwashing is to blame. Maybe the most culpable party is the media or the billionaires or Russia or all of them. In my opinion, the threat is still the conservative bigot, no matter who is to blame for creating that threat. I understand we disagree on this, and I respect your position.

Conservatives did this to us. We’re gonna need some more “cheer up” tiddies.

Conservatives did this to you. I’m sending you some “cheer up” tiddies.

The only reason conservatives are pouting is because of gas prices. They support absolutely every other thing Trump has done. Every. Single. Thing.

Wow! A silent shitpost.

What really sucks is when the people who claim to be unhappy with conservatism defend conservatives as if they are the victims of their own evil nature or idiocy.

Conservatives are not the victims of conservatism. They are the perpetrators of conservatism and should be treated as such.

I was born, raised, lived and retired in the deep south. I spent over 50 years being a good friend, neighbor, relative and colleague to conservatives. I’ve spent endless hours in friendly debates and trying to reason with them. Your presumption that I just haven’t given conservatives a chance leads me to understand that it is you who has not spent much time around conservatives.

I remember my genuine confusion and horror at how conservatives across the nation publicly celebrated the deaths of gay men dying of AIDS throughout the 80’s and 90’s. They actively opposed efforts by universities and researchers to find any treatment or cure because they openly wanted gay people to die. They admitted it openly and as a matter of policy for nearly 20 years. That alone should tell you who they are.

That’s just a single tiny example of the evil you are defending. It wasn’t just the rich or the media who celebrated the nonstop suffering and death. It was ALL conservatives. Every. Single. One.

Stop defending evil. Start defending their victims instead.

Attempting to fight fascism in proportion is a deadly mistake.

Conservatives are not victims of their own conservatism. They are consistently dishonest, opposed to education, enemies of science and do not see nonconservatives as humans.

A conservative will never humanize you. This is because they are biologically unable to experience empathy. In fact, they despise empathy. They call it “woke” and insist it is fake, evil or a weakness.

This lack of empathy affects how they view other humans. Notice that a conservative thinks of his family as his property. He loves his wife the same way a teenager “loves” a sportscar. It’s a strong emotion, but not a deep emotional bond. This is because the ability to experience empathy is a component of a deep emotional bond. Conservatives do not humanize others because they simply cannot humanize others.

When conservatives have the option to incarcerate or kill you, they will do so immediately and without any sadness because you are not one of them. You are their enemy. Hear them when they say you are their enemy. You will be treated as such regardless of your kindness toward them. Hoping they will suddenly find compassion is an error that has preceded many genocides throughout history.

I have spent over 50 years being kind and turning the other cheek with conservatives. I was raised in the deep south, lived there my whole life and retired there from a 98% conservative career. I was a good relative, friend, neighbor and colleague to conservatives the entire time.

I have tried the Socratic method, leading by example, tireless friendly debates and every other peaceful method I could over the years to reach them. My successes were always limited and short-lived.

I do not believe conservatives can be talked out of their conservatism. And now there is simply no more time for talk. Conservatism has matured into fascism. The normal people must aggressively act now or lose permanently.

I respectfully disagree. Fascism is just a flavor of conservatism. If left unchecked, a conservative will always drift toward fascism. It is their natural inclination. Without early resistance, unchecked conservatism will always naturally develop into fascism. Always.

The Democratic Party, our only real opposition to the fascist party, has been infested by conservatives known as neo-liberals. These conservatives pretend to be progressive (the opposite of conservative) by promising progressive policies, but their actions are consistently in support of conservatism. This is the mechanism by which conservatism has remained unchecked in the U.S. for so long.

We are now suffering the effects of unchecked conservatism, which is fascism. We have moved past the early stages. We cannot wait until the late stages to forcibly resist or we will lose.

The time to defend against fascism is not after they are putting us in the camps. It’s not after soldiers are enforcing conservative policies on our streets. The time to act is now, before the later stages of conservatism have been enacted.

I am unaware of any effective opposition to fascism that is peaceful that can be apllied to our current situation. Even if we have a blue wave in November and again in 2028, conservatives will learn and return with a new way to overwhelm the normal people with fascism. And that’s assuming they are effectively stopped from advancing their fascism after midterms. We may already be too far along for courts or legislators to stop them.

This is a fight against cancer. As long as it continues to exist, it will never stop trying to kill us. Never. It needs to be completely erased.

😆 Thank you. I walk a tightrope in advocating for the only thing that can cure the cancer of conservatism. I don’t blame the mods. They are protecting the community from what conservatives with power can do to Lemmy if they find certain language in my comments.

Unchecked capitalism is the direct result of unchecked conservatism. If not for conservatives, the normal people would be permitted to regulate capitalists and determin how much capitalism is acceptable in our modern culture.

Under conservatism, the normal people are not even permitted to charge capitalists with crimes, force them to pay fair taxes or force them to pay fair wages. Is it only conservatives who protect capitalists from the regulating hand of the normal people.

Conservatives are the ones who do the dirty work of union busting and passing laws that protect capitalists, even when it directly harms the public.

If not for conservatives, the normal people would be permitted to regulate or abolish capitalism as we choose. Conservatives have always opposed regulations for capitalists. They will resort to violence in their protection of the wealthy.

We cannot defeat the boss until his foot-soldiers are dead.

Violent opposition to fascism is not fascism. Intolerance of intolerance is not intolerance. It is the cure.

As long as conservatives continue to exist, the horrors of conservative greed will continue to exist.

Basic conservatism.

“Incompetence” implies it was unintentional. This was completely intentional.

“Disregard of the law” implies there is some law against this. Any law that will not punish the offender is not a law. So there was no “disregard” of any law in this case.

Sundar Pichai is a conservative. His company leadership reflects conservative values, such as destruction of the environment, supporting genocide, supporting war and supporting fascism.

Conservatism is cancer. The disease has metastasized and has infected most major corporations in the U.S., including Google. I’m not sure a cure is possible, but the treatment for it is not peaceful or pretty. We would need thousands more people named Luigi to be willing to perform heroic, selfless acts.

Conservatism cannot be effectively cured by peaceful means. Fascism cannot be reasoned with. Only the erasure of conservatism can cure it.

Your approach of calling my suggestions of forceful resistance “conservative” is inaccurate and does not support any effective countermeasure to fascism. Being peaceful and equitable toward conservatism is how we get more fascism.

I admit that violence is very rarely the right answer to any problem. In the case of fascism, however, it truly is the only effective answer.

No. Israeli interrogators, like any other conservative, delight in the misery of others. I don’t want my enemies to suffer. I simply want them to stop existing.

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Damn. It’s all the same shit.

Um, the Office of Religious Affairs would like a word with you. Please stand on the plastic.