Maybe the purpose of a system is what it does…
Maybe trying to lower the rate/efficiency of the baby-killing machine is the wrong approach…
Maybe you should be thinking about destroying it…

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3611·
    8 hours ago

    I yearn for the good old days when being conservative meant not blowing up the deficit with stupid bullshit and lumping Nazis, religious extremists, and imperialist commies into a basket of ‘people only useful for adding nitrogen and phosphorous to soil’. That was only 20 years ago

    Edit: I mean, imagine an alternate universe without Reagan or the Moral Majority, and instead of Trump we had some candidate who wanted to raise corporate tax rates on large businesses to balance the budget and give small businesses a fighting chance, and holding the line at the Ukraine-Russia border at all costs. That’s what I mean, pretty peachy huh

    • SauerkrautEnglish
      8·
      6 hours ago

      German conservatives formed a majority coalition with the Nazis in 1932. Conservatives have always sided with fascism over socialism and always will.

    • Letstakealook@lemm.eeEnglish
      28·
      9 hours ago

      Idk where you were 2004, but the conservatives you speak of certainly weren’t around. In fact, I’m quite sure they never existed, considering conservatism in the US has always been closely tied to white supremacy and Christian nationalism.

      • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        Yeah the more I think about it the more I think it was Reagan and Falwell that flipped everything around. Everyone got a sip of the tax cut and Christian values koolaid

        • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          8 hours ago

          More like Nixon with the “southern strategy” to lure the Dixiecrats into becoming Republicans.

    • skillissuerEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      did you just blank out all the rabid mccarthyism and thatcherism

      • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        No, I’m thinking of the good old days, not the bad days. The post-McCarthy hangover where conservatives were not entirely dissimilar to Clinton, but then Reagan showed up

      • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        56·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah, that’s no typo. You have regular boring communist countries that just sit there being communist. In a post-McCarthy world most people realized those countries are pretty benign. You have imperialist nations that attempt to extend their territory and influence. Then you slap it all together and you get the USSR. Or Putin’s Russia. Don’t let them knock over their neighbors, install puppet governments, give them any aid or comfort or intel or anything