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Ironically I think the latest decade has brought conservatives up to speed on some topics. Not from the US, but could you have imagined a US conservative argui
by raxxorrax 5y ago
Ironically I think the latest decade has brought conservatives up to speed on some topics.
Not from the US, but could you have imagined a US conservative arguing for free speech and against censorship in 2010? They were always big on the constitution, but very selectively for this topic and there was some kind of flip.
- zionic 5y agoDecentralization as well. 10 years ago your average conservative didn't even know that word, and now the big tech monoculture has taught huge portions of them why using distributed, decentralized systems is important.
- angst_ridden 5y agoThere's nothing new here. The "conservatives" in the US are arguing for free speech and against censorship while passing laws banning the mention of concepts in the classroom.
- pessimizer 5y agoIt's been a tactic since the days of "Jewish Questions." Why are you angry, we're just asking questions, what are you trying to hide? But even a disingenuous introduction to matters of digital privacy and mass censorship is an education. 1/20 of them may enter into a relationship with the subject separate from the people clumsily manipulating them. Part of the right-wing revival (really a Eustace Mullins revival) amongst average people is a sense that they are being deceived and a consequent lust for secret, forbidden knowledge. Real conspiracies are going to be more interesting to the smarter ones than the ancient, fake conspiracies that are constantly being pumped by people asking for money.