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They do a fine job of it on their own. Modern-day US conservatism is a suicide cult. Climate change? Nah, it ain't real, nevermind the fires and floods. Covid?
by us_vs_them 5y ago
They do a fine job of it on their own. Modern-day US conservatism is a suicide cult. Climate change? Nah, it ain't real, nevermind the fires and floods. Covid? Nah, it ain't real, those hundreds of thousands dead are just faking it. Vaccines? Nah, they ain't real, nevermind all the lives they've saved since, oh, the dark ages. Healthcare? Who needs that, people should just be free enough to die young and die poor. Crime and guns? As long as it's white people and cops killing everyone else, it doesn't really count. Foreign policy? Let's just bomb all the darkies, half-assedly run what's left of their countries, and blame the Democrats when their children become new enemies. The kids? Ah, don't educate them, don't feed them; their poor, sick parents will take care of them, or if they're not wanted, use a coathanger. What's the problem there?
You have a half-dozen fascists in a courtroom, a couple hundred idiots in suits dancing around the capitol, surrounded by a murderous death cult that uses violence over ethics at every opportunity. Power over policy, party over country, violence over law, selfishness above all, all under the guise of freedom. These few people, constituting maybe 2% of the world population at most, are killing the entire rest of the world every single day.
But yeah, let's just pretend that's not happening, and it's really the scientists and the leftists threatening the future of humanity.
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