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It might be because what being a "conservative" in America means has been grotesquely distorted into what it is today.

by squigz 2y ago

WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
> being a "conservative" in America means has been grotesquely distorted into what it is today. I am a recovering conservative and agree with this. Today's right wing occupies a space that I find to be distressing and deeply concerning. From my perspective, conservatism has become thin-skinned, extremely malleable and hair-trigger reactive - the same complaints we lobbed at the left, 20y ago. From my perspective, the right is dominated by the same boogeymen we once visualized and railed against.
- anglosaxony 2y ago
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  - squigz 2y ago
    The fact that you think we can just engineer our way out of climate change is half of the problem - to say nothing of the fact that, as far as I'm aware, the Republican party does not really accept the threat of climate change.
    - dang 2y ago
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  - dang 2y ago
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It might be because what being a "conservative" in America means has been grotesquely distorted into what it is today.

by squigz 2y ago

It might be because what being a "conservative" in America means has been grotesquely distorted into what it is today.

> being a "conservative" in America means has been grotesquely distorted into what it is today. I am a recovering conservative and agree with this. Today's right wing occupies a space that I find to be distressing and deeply concerning. From my perspective, conservatism has become thin-skinned, extremely malleable and hair-trigger reactive - the same complaints we lobbed at the left, 20y ago. From my perspective, the right is dominated by the same boogeymen we once visualized and railed against.

anglosaxony 2y ago
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- squigz 2y ago
  The fact that you think we can just engineer our way out of climate change is half of the problem - to say nothing of the fact that, as far as I'm aware, the Republican party does not really accept the threat of climate change.
  - dang 2y ago
    Please don't post political battle comments to HN, and also please remember this site guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (I'm not banning your account the way I banned the other account, because it doesn't look like you're using HN primarily for this purpose. Your account is still unfortunately on the wrong side of that line a lot of the time, though, so it would be good to correct this.)
- dang 2y ago
  We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political battle. That's not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for, regardless of which side of whatever battle you're on. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html