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  • You don't seem to actually understand conservatism.

    I'll give you a little primer. Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre created the philosophy of Conservatism as a response to the French Revolution. They were searching for a way to maintain the power of the Nobility in a world that was chopping off the heads of the worst offenders.

    Make no mistake, the power of the nobility meant white supremacy as well, because that's how the nobility always functioned.

    But anyway, Conservatism says that the rich are deserving of their riches because they're just better than you and I. Often invoking God or some bullshit argument that doesn't boil down to the truth of "my ancestors were fucking monsters who stole a bunch of shit and would literally kill anyone who didn't obey."

    Anyway, Conservatism has always relied on their being an in class, and then everyone else, but separating that "everyone else" into classes and then sparking resentment among those lower classes.

    That's how it works. Apartheid is when Conservatism is winning, you have your rich elite, and then two out groups, the poor whites and then the bulk of your disfavored minority group (who might very well be the actual majority).

    This gives the rich assholes the opportunity to exploit two different groups against each other, lowering the pay of both. And that's good for the bottom line.

    Actually having to pay real wages to the minorities, to treat them as equal to the poor whites who are also being exploited, well that raises everyone's wages and is seen as the greatest evil that conservatism knows.

  • The thing is, DEI was always going to become political. Evey single conservative is some level of white supremacist.

    You cannot hold conservative beliefs and also be a fan of diversity, equity, or inclusion.

    The conservative mind sees people as all innately fitting into social hierarchies. And brown people are always at the bottom.

    Trying anything that changes that hierarchy is seen as a direct attack on conservativism. Because in a very real way, it is. Which is the fucking point. DEI policies were a subtle attack on white supremacy via capitalism.

    The argument was that companies that practiced DEI made more money.

    It worked for a time, but the jackasses would rather throw money away than abandon their social hierarchies.

    They're kind of mask off about it all now.

  • Yes and no. The monsters are using migrants as a scapegoat to distract from the outright theft that's about to ramp up.

    But the thing about a scapegoat, they're still killed.

    When a monster tells you what they want to do, believe them.

  • The main part of the tax is that rich assholes would not longer be able to use those unrealized gains as collateral for loans. Because as soon as those gains are realized, they're taxed.

    This alone would massively limit the power of rich assholes.

  • oh man

    Jump
  • Luigi was never the prototypical right-winger.

    He was more of a tech bro libertarian.and even that seems to have been blunted by his pain and experience with US health insurance.

  • Kraft singles are still cheese. They've just been pasteurized and adulterated with sodium citrate.

    That actually makes them super useful in making a cheese sauce.

    Add a few slices to a queso and it will not break.

    You fat. Smooth cheesey sauce that comes out perfect every time.

    You can make sodium citrate with lemon juice and baking soda. Lime juice also works. Really any citric acid.

    Anyway, you don't need much to make cheese melt smoothly.

  • Yeah, we're coming into a pretty horrible timeline. I'd have preferred the one where the Brooks Brothers Riot failed. But that ship has long sailed.

    This timeline is going to be an authoritarian nightmare with random high points where some rich asshole is murked by an Adjustor copycat.

  • Part of the problem is that you literally cannot build up a third party under First Past the Post voting.

    The thing is, the current most popular alternative voting system, RCV is just as bad for third parties.

    RCV was first invented in the 1780s by the Marquis de Condorcet, under the name Instant Runoff. He wrote about it, mostly to highlight it's problems.

    Like the fact that under IRV the majority preferred candidate can easily lose the election.

    And that's the tip of the iceberg when it comes to flaws in IRV.

    Thankfully it's been over 200 years since then, and better voting systems have been designed.

    STAR is as close to the magical best system designed to date.

    If we had STAR for all elections, plus voting day as a national holiday, we'd be in a vastly better place.

  • The thing is, Left vs Right is already a measure of authoritarian vs Democratic.

    The original use of the terms comes from the French Revolution. There was a vote on if the King should have an absolute veto over laws passed by the assembly. Those who said no sat to the left of the Speakers podium. Those who said yes sat on the right.

    The reason why left and right were applied to economic policy was because Marx described Communism as a form of extreme Democracy. Whereas Capitalism concentrates power into the hands of a select few.

    It's still a measure of where the power rests. In the hands of the people or the hands of the state/leader.

    You can break it down to dozens of categories, but it's all authoritarian vs Democratic in the end.

    As a note, Lenin style single party "communism" is about as far from Marx's ideal as you can get.

    Dictators and Kings are all the enemies of the people.