Do you have examples?

Medicalized secular acceptance/resistance toward vaccination has been picked up by religious organizations and turned into a sectarian belief.

The NIH even had a study illustrating how outreach to religious leadership heavily impacted how communities adopted vaccination.

I mean, a lot of religions don’t particularly denounce cannibalism

Virtually every modern world religion has a stated position on murder generally speaking, human sacrifice specifically, and dietary taboos around cannibalism.

Unironically what conservatives actually believed

you’re sick, buy some medicine

Absolutely how that works

“My cardiologist smokes a pack a day”

No one is going to try and primary him.

He’s survived two primaries already, in large part thanks to Pelosi bailing him out.

I can understand something like cannibalism and incest resulting in some diseases, which is fair, although they’re not exclusive to religion.

They don’t need to be. Religious and secular moral codes regularly inform one another.

Cocaine, famously great for your mental health

stupid people vote Republican

That’s not true, though. Partisanship is far more tied up with local industry than individual intelligence or educational attainment.

People who earn money in Republican friendly industries vote Republican. What the GOP has done to capture the nation is to seed big swing states with a petrochemical industry and tell people “if you vote Democrat, they’re going to Green the economy and you’ll lose your cushy jobs”

I’ve heard this argument before. It seems to neglect how much modern libertarian ideology is packed into the modern school curriculum.

Conservatives scream about education being Marxist and Woke. Thousands of teachers are purged. Curriculum gets ratcheted further to the right. And by the time your own kids are going to school, they’re asking why history textbooks are venerating Newt Gingrich, bio textbooks include disclaimers decrying evolution and germ theory, and math class is just 8 hours a week of long division exercises the whole semester.

But you can’t just pretend we’re living in a Shepard Tone of a society, because we’re here now in spite of “superior” education we received a generation or two ago.

We can’t just blame this on “schools make you smart/dumb” because so much of your modem understanding of the world is formed after you’ve graduated.

“They’re not going to bail me out,” Nelson said. “I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No.”

If only there was some way to change that

Sorry, but Bari Weiss is running a story on 60 minutes about a rich black woman using food stamps to buy a fancy car. So now we’re cutting the Give Surplus Food to Starving People program in half and giving twice it’s value to a company run out of Hondorus by Peter Thiel’s Ket dealer called QueefCoin.

Mamdani promised to execute the bourgeois class and redistribute housing to the proletariat and he’s already breaking promises

it’s tankie to deny legitimate criticism

All this time, I thought “Tankies” supported military intervention by Communist states.

Turns out any disagreement with a capitalist criticism qualifies.

No wonder there are so many Tankies in here.

Harm inflicted across the general public, either to particular individual victims or as a negative externality experienced universally.

Taboos aren’t just intended to uphold individual moral integrity. They exist to prohibit social harm.

You can’t say those words. Those are Tankie words

Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.

No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.

Maduro’s grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation.

All the “Maduro cheated to win the election” stuff comes from the same people insisting Biden cheated to win in 2020 and Obama cheated in 2008.

Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched “Operation Tun Tun” (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as “state terrorism”.

Were these experts affiliated with Elliot Abrams?

Conservatives do love self-owning with the anti-Castro rhetoric