• wer2@lemmy.zip
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    I’m selfish. I want people educated, housed, and cared for so they don’t rob me.

    I don’t want to dump sewage in the river, so I can drink the water when I visit down stream.

    😋

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      These leftists are so anti-Christian for wanting to… checks notes… “love your neighbor as yourself.” Never heard such anti-Jesus teachings in my life.

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      Seems to me we’re past that. The problem with the “fuck you, I’ve got mine” principle was the “I’ve got mine” bit, which requires holding something back from the ultra wealthy. If you can distill it down to a simple “fuck you”, you’ve got yourself a much more low-maintenance philosophy. By turning human suffering into a desired commodity, you can appease your voter base without giving them anything of value.

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    The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    Stfu you socialist pig. I’m a conservative, I believe in the teaching of Jesus and it says somewhere “Thou shall own liberals”

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    If you really want to piss people off, try adding “…and animals” to the list of things you care about.

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    Do you have any idea how bad caring for people and the planet is for the economy? China will destroy us if we don’t focus on profits!!

    /s

  • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.world
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    It really is alarming how quickly some have shifted to the hard right. Even previous lefty friends have drifted. Sometimes I feel like I’m going insane.