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Some friends I just can’t shake

hard enough

around the neck

with a firm grip

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[–] rastro@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

I think it's a joke at the expense of many who deserve it.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 15 points 1 year ago

Wow, sometimes I invoke Poe's law when people say no one here gets a joke, but like what the hell happens here

It's clearly just joking mirroring. Of course we don't want intolerant people in our discourse.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't a Muslim friend be conservative?

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[–] Disinfect056@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Yyeap that is how it feels to be a conservative today..... Cant say you are a conservative cause people will call you "rasist" "bigot" "sexist" "transphobic" and so on. Just because you think a 9 month old baby should have the same rights as a newborn. Or because you think we should have rules (and we do) behind how people cross the border. Or because you think people should pay money back if they barrow money.

Just some thoughts that will get you banned from social media.

[–] Girru00@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (33 children)

What 9 month old baby has less rights than a newborn? Edit: or vice versa.

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[–] cygon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I would agree that some people have become hyper-sensitized towards any statement that might be interpreted as "racist", "sexist" or "transphobic", no thanks to a definite rise of those sentiments, mainly amongst conservatives. But I firmly believe this "they call anyone conservative a nazi/a racist/a transphobe/a xenophobe" claim is a persecution complex installed onto conservatives by the media to disarm the accusations and instead turn them into anger against the "other side."

If this is about the USA, abortion used to be legal up to 12 weeks after conception, 9 months would be crazy. Also, there is no open border, nor does the current government want that (they merely insist on proper procedure, aka rules, rather than letting people drown). Republicans will likely continue to reject border deals in order to keep the topic cooking until election day and to aid America's enemies in Russia.

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[–] MinusPi@yiffit.net 12 points 1 year ago

Define conservative. I don't count bigotry.

[–] Dra@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't Islam technically Conservative? I'm confused

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Religion should be opposed via education, culture, and general science, not via the state. Religion is conservative, but there are good religious people.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago
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