LeviF

I’ve been called every name in the book by people who are probably better than you over the past couple of years. I really don’t care what you might think about me, and nothing you will do or say can make me feel shame about anything I might think, so save your screeching for someone who might listen. That out of the way, what do you think the purpose of this rhetoric is? ⬇️

Found that one back a bit. I didn't make any claims for myself. But the weaponized cynicism by libs is on full display here. There are arguments to be made as to what demography means for the identity and culture of a nation, not to mention its politics and laws.

And predictably, PPP's libs pretending that anybody who merely thinks a demographic change is undesirable is peddling a conspiracy theory.

Yeah I understand the sentiment but he’s an idiot. And the sentiment is incorrect anyway.

Obligatory reminder that there were decades when you could mail order with zero oversight US military surplus rifles and full cap mags and we didn't have the kinds of problems we do now.

Serious conservatives should not be participating in any discussion about this shooting. Why would you care? Can you name the NYC Subway shooter? How about the guy who livestreamed himself shooting at a DC school? No? Do you know why that is? You have no obligation to humor the faux outrage libs decide to blanket TV and social media with 24/7 after some kid copy/pasted edgy old 4chan content into a google doc and shot a bunch of people. The reality is that the vast majority of people in the country are gonna talk about this for 15 minutes then go fill up their Camry with $6 a gallon gas and buy $7/lb ground beef and realize they have issues that actually matter to them. Vote and apply legal pressure as needed, but the failure to recognize the "mass shooting" issue as simple friend/enemy dichotomy at play again is unconscionable.

Sometimes dudes only give you one route to the desired outcome, which in this case presumably is the return of the woman's belongings.

Are you talking about the oral contraceptive? I think they didn't come around until the 60s? But there were other methods that yes, were legal. Some places criminalized the oral contraceptive in some situations but that disappeared fairly quickly. Yeah Hoover was post-industrialization but you were saying that things are better for the elderly now than they ever have been, no? If not I read it wrong. But yeah early industrialization and urbanization was very hard on the elderly. There are some semantic differences between "life expectancy up" and "people live longer." But all of those "good things" would have happened without the mainstream conservative heel-turn.

We're running into fundamental philosophical differences now but a lot of it hinges on what we consider a "quality" life. It's ok to differ on that but my problem with Conservative, Inc. is that they have swallowed whole the underlying theoretical premises of postmodern liberal thought and just added endless war and blind shilling for megacorps.

I don't mean to sound like a douche but, define "better off." I didn't say things were bad for average Americans during many of those years but I think the precedents and the ideas put in motion in our government starting in that time period got us way off track with no course correction in the meantime.

Yes, I'm not rich by any reasonable American standard but I had several non-random advantages that much of the population could also have with certain targeted legislation. Somewhere along the way the American conservative movement got completely hijacked by corporate oligarchies and abandoned many of the principles of nation-building that made this country great. Somewhere between Hoover and Kennedy the US lost the mandate of heaven. Technocratic corporatism and managerial politics have led to this weird two-headed monster in our government that has completely lost sight of the average American citizen and worker in favor of CEOverlords and weird obsessions with narrow economic issues and principles that affect less than 10% of the population. Pile on top of that several gerontocrats refusing to give up power even as they slide into mental failure and we're left with a failed society. For those of us with some means the effects of this are felt on a much smaller scale as we can: pick up and move to an area where we can be left to our own devices (USA is big and in many places is sparsely populated), find alternative routes for our children in education and trade, arrange communities that self-govern, etc. For the average American this is impossible, which is why the "leave me alone" camp will always lose: they fail to recognize or simply don't care that the people they claim to represent do not benefit from most of their political stances.

I'm sanguine dude. I manufacture my own left-alone-ness.

Yeah I'm never gonna dunk on people who want real health care/health insurance reform in the states. Unfortunately a lot of that is downstream of lifestyle which has trended more to convenience and comfort (byproducts of urbanization of living spaces and monopolies in the food industry) over actually beneficial habits. As a result we have HUGE issues that won't even be fixed with proper single payer on one side or gutting the massive administrative burden on health care on the other. But again I'm not going to fault people who want to find some acute solutions that will make some progress.

Yeah this is about right. The only thing that's missing is the fact that people that just want to be left alone will always lose societal and political battles to those who wish to impose their will on others. It's time to re-define conservatism to something that actually has a battle plan.

You could probably get similar advice if you wanted to go to Detroit.

Yes. The weight of the mother has many effects on not only gestational health but the early health of the child as well.

It’s too bad Clay sold his soul to become another useful Conservative, Inc. idiot. Teaming up with “former” intelligence officer Sexton was the nail in the coffin.

She had dumps like a truck, truck, truck Thighs like what, what, what All night long Let me see that thong!

Figures. COs can’t shoot worth a damn.

The point is that he’s unimportant you maroon. He serves as an example.

Ha. Federal law enforcement is not here to enforce true rule of law. Leftists can and will threaten and even employ physical violence against their political opponents and face zero consequences because they own the media and the entire government apparatus. This is why I don’t debate. It’s a friend/enemy dichotomy all the way down.

I hear the strip clubs in Atlanta have pretty good wings.

This is correct, but also hilarious coming from the dude whose schtick has gone from pretending to be a communist version of a football talk show personality to just reacting thumbs down on every post they could find. And again, I'll accept the Supreme Court line once we can have a discussion about how the entire national political agenda of the LGBTQ crowd was shoved down our throats, so to speak, by the courts, and then those same courts were used to punish the perceived political enemies of the gays. This of course all coming AFTER the largest state in the union voted gay marriage down by direct vote. In summary, shut up, dork.

Are conservatives advocating for the unfettered slaughter of those children? Can you point to a link? They use it because they believe it to be dehumanizing. It betrays their line of thinking, which has no logical endpoint re: the time at which it is no longer ok to kill the child.