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who said u had to be liberal or conservative? Just be u and let the crumbs land where they fall.
I believe in trans rights but I just want to be a housewife. I don't think that a house caretaker is what every woman should be nor do I think that every man has to be rich and working. That's just what I want for myself. And I let everyone else worry about what they want. #actually happy with my life and proud
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
Happy Birthday, William E. Gladstone (1809-1898)
Absolute control and submission.
it's so funny to me that conservatives think the reason university students become more liberal is because of the actual course material and not like. the fact that universities in the US introduce are oftentimes the first place Americans are introduced to a walkable environment with affordable health care, with community spaces for any affiliation under the sun where they give you free resources and cheap food. with included public transit and opportunities for training in your field of choice. and you realize that for how much you're spending on tuition/taxes, yeah, you do deserve these things, it would be insane not to have those. and then you graduate and go back to having to buy a car to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store.
sorry but i want to hit every american talking about not wanting to vote democrat anymore with hammers. lol
Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Woke College Student (They have gay sex)
Republicans intent to repeat history. Banning books will only be the beginning if they win in 2024.
I don’t know about y’all but I’m looking forward to the Mommy Milker mac n cheese.
In an ideological economy of power, using someone's terminology is an act of submission towards that person.
One thing I see between American conservatives and leftists is that the leftists are operating in an economy of power and they view conservatives in that light, while conservatives don't seem to feel that's what is going on.
Naturally I cringe when I hear conservatives comfortably using terminology that originated with leftists. I seem to see them weighed down by the massive chain of implications hanging off that terminology.
Here’s a reminder for anyone who thinks that conservatives accept aces: they think we need to be fixed. They think women and feminine people are inherently asexual but they mean it in a way that agency is removed, not as an orientation.
It’s also not a sudden switch. The churches I grew up in preached that sexuality was reserved for your husband, and that if you had boobs (they didn’t recognize anything but cis existed) that your body was inherently tempting, and men’s attraction to you was your responsibility.
Also — while I went to church camp every summer and did Bible Quizzing (I was really good at that actually) and was in the church pageant and youth groups and all of that — I know many people raised in much stricter churches, and that includes stricter purity culture beliefs.
The idea that men and masculine people wouldn’t want sex? Utterly unthinkable. I even remember having conversations in my Christian college with women who wanted to get married who said that part of their marriage was the duty to be sexually available to their husbands.
The body I was raised with was meant for the service of a future husband, not me. And that bled into secular culture (still does). Claiming my aceness was a huge part of claiming agency over my body and healing from the idea that it could only exist for others.
Here’s the thing: in a nutshell, women and feminine people are seen as not wanting sex, but having bodies inherently sexually tempting to men and masculine people. When the two marry, she must give her body to her husband in every way. And yeah, it’s as gross as it sounds.
Just because conservatives didn’t say “asexual” before doesn’t make this rhetoric new. Purity culture has been against anything not based in some 1950s idealized sexuality in marriage for a very long time. Very cis heteronormative— two things aces are not. The only difference is that conservatives are including the word “asexual” in their sexual ethics now.
Wrote an essay about it here.
But yeah it’s not new. They’re just learning how to use more vocabulary to say what they were already saying.
I don't think enough people are paying attention to project 2025. I know it's a big document and I don't really expect the average person to read it all or anything like that but being aware of it and knowing some of the key plans/goals it describes is probably pretty useful.
Like you know how in movies the evil villain goes on a monologue describing their whole evil plan and you think "they just revealed everything, If that were me I would know exactly how to stop them now"
This is that. Conservatives just outlined their whole evil plan in detail down to the who, what, when, where, how, and why's of the things they intend to do if they take the presidency again, the thing is 900 pages long and basically anything you might want to know or plan countermeasures for is in there.
I have no words
It has been said that showing anger is sometimes important in Anglo-Saxon culture, especially for men. Breaking things, throwing a coffee cup. I understand the behavior is necessary to show who they are and what they think. American culture is like “a salad bowl”, Anglo-Saxon culture is a part of it, but big influence. The difference between American Anglo-Saxon culture and English culture will be that Americans tend to exaggerate including emotions.
Once Japanese male students in the U.S. told me they were not attractive to American ladies because they are not used to show their emotions. They said it's not charming to Americans.
The article argues that the way to show anger now takes certain forms with bad consequences.
Last year summer, I had watched Fox news in order to be fair. The day, BLM protesters clashed with police. The scene was shown on Fox News. The host said the protesters are "disgusting". The host was Tucker Carlson if my memory is correct. Rather he tried to tell audiences what happened on the street or what protesters thought, he tried to direct the audience's aggression toward them. I stopped watching it.
［edited］The difference between the UK and the U.S. is added for clarity.
Americans sure are angry these days. Everyone says so, so it must be true.
But who or what are we angry at? Pandemic stresses aside, I’d bet you’re not especially angry at your family. Or your friends. Or your priest or your plumber or your postal carrier. Or even your boss.
Unless, of course, the conversation turns to politics. That’s when we start shouting at each other. We are way, way angrier about politics than we used to be, something confirmed by both common experience and formal research.
Women who support T**** attack the libs so they can avoid being attacked.
The U.S. right wing has long cultivated ties with Russia. Some of these are self-evident quid-pro-quo affairs: The “sweeping and systematic” campaigns of election interference authorized by Putin in support of a Trump victory in 2016 and 2020; Trump’s attempt to leverage Congressionally allocated aid to Ukraine for political dirt on the Biden family; the confessed Russian agent who infiltrated the National Rifle Association and the National Prayer Breakfast in a bid to develop informal channels of influence on the Republican Party.
More broadly, however, U.S. conservative evangelicals have developed strong symbolic and institutional ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. In recent years, these have dovetailed with white racist fantasies of Russia as an ethnically pure land of traditional religion and gender roles, symbolized by the bare-chested kleptocrat on horseback, Vladimir Putin.
I don't think there is such a thing as religious freedom.
There is only religious tolerance.
And it may be time to stop tolerating certain things.
pREACH BILL PREACH
Safety glasses off, motherfuckers*.
*HE REALLY SAID THAT HE REALLY DID I WAS LOSING MY DAMN MIND
if i were a feminazi i’d be genociding the men by the millions and putting them in thousands of different concentration camps but i’m literally asking for gender equality it’s super simple
conservatives always talk about “waking up in a free country” and “getting the right to choose” when it comes to masks but go apeshit when someone’s pro-choice
“omg it’s murder they have a heartbeat and everything!“
yeah well you not wearing a mask could murder someone you walnut so stfu and put on your goddamn homemade floral maga mask debra