AZcoigreach<p>Conservatism is no longer conservative <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/duet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duet</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrisy</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/facism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facism</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4-fSAtfVRc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=m4-fSAtfVRc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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Rev.Hans :mstdnca:<p>In the “old days,” when many of our fathers and uncles worked in the woods, we needed what Smokey said: Only you can prevent forest fires. We didn’t blame government because we were so stupid as to test fate (& our fathers’ and families’ livelihoods) by flaunting “common sense” prohibitions on staying out of the woods, not smoking near the woods, only chewing snuff (not smoking) if we worked in the woods, resisting the call to fight forest fires if called/ordered to do so. I can’t think of anyone who thought protecting the forest from fire was govt overreach, as impinging on “freedom.” And to think that the once proud Progressive Conservatives of Canada (Diefenbaker, Stanfield, Clark) are now held hostage by self-centred neoliberals… Ugh. Oh Canada… <br>I seriously hope the imposter from Ottawa is rejected by Alberta voters today. He is heir of Reform/Harper, for sure. But he is unworthy of the Canadian Tory tradition. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> v <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/canada" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>canada</span></a></span></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>In the last resort, the conservative position rests on the belief that in any society there are recognizably superior persons whose inherited standards and values and position ought to be protected and who should have a greater influence on public affairs than others.<br> -- Friedrich Hayek (Why I Am Not a Conservative)</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FriedrichHayek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FriedrichHayek</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sunrise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunrise</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LakeSantaFe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LakeSantaFe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a></p>
Aubreader Masto<p>Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage (13 Aug 2025)</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/the</span><span class="invisible">n-they-came-for-me/</span></a></p><p>Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
Jeff Horton :canada:<p>I was reminded of this WaPo story today and it is a great note when politicians clamor for the _good old days_. Mostly they want to be 8-21 again.</p><p>"One simple variable, more than anything, determines when you think the nation peaked."</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/IIqyp" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/IIqyp</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chris</span></a></span> I never get tired of bringing up <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wilhoitslaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wilhoitslaw</span></a></p><p>“<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a> consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”</p><p>It’s a political philosophy that starts from the WHO should be in power, not WHAT. And rule of law is never compatible with it.</p>
Wisdom in Space<p>Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. [Anti-conservatism counters that:] The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.<br> -- Frank Wilhoit</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FrankWilhoit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrankWilhoit</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GreatSandDunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSandDunes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colorado</span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p>When in doubt, MAGA just goes back to jewish conspiracies..</p><p>I don’t doubt Mossad could have somehow been involved with Epstein, but this is just the same old same old.</p><p>They just circled back to :”it’s the jews, bcoz great leader can’t possibly be deceiving them, and is being blackmailed by Mossad.”</p><p>This is even more predictable than I thought! They just start from what they want and make up the world as a justification. 🤦♂️</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=iAwvi2tVvek" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=iAwvi2tVvek</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epstein</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a></p>
Conflicts<p>South Korea’s military says North Korea is removing speakers from their tense border</p><p>SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military said Saturday it detected North Korea removing some of its loudspeakers…<br><a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Conflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conflict</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Conflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conflicts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> #124504873 <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>article</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/generalnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generalnews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/militaryanddefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>militaryanddefense</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/northkorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>northkorea</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldNews</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2314845/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2314845/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dangillmor</span></a></span> ”There must be in-groups who the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups who the law binds but does not not protect.”<br>-Frank Wilhoit</p><p>This is the only true rule of conservatism.</p><p>And it was made in the context of pointing out that we have no other politics than <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> left.</p><p>All parties today protect the wealthy at the price of hurting the non-wealthy. Only different flavours of implementing <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wilhoitslaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wilhoitslaw</span></a> remain in power.</p><p>This needs to change.</p>
MegatronicThronBanks<p>Is Britain going back to the Roundheads?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillancecapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/puritans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puritans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/03/uk-pornography-taskforce-to-propose-banning-barely-legal-content-after-channel-4-documentary-airs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">ug/03/uk-pornography-taskforce-to-propose-banning-barely-legal-content-after-channel-4-documentary-airs</span></a></p>
Teacher/Coder Jason<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ouij" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ouij</span></a></span> I cringe when I hear the word <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/obedience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obedience</span></a>, but I get what you are trying to say and agree with the sentiment. I would rephrase it, though. We need to be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civil</span></a> and follow <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rules</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a> that are just. We can't have a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> without. But <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawandorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawandorder</span></a> has been twisted into a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politicalweapon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalweapon</span></a>, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fightingword" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fightingword</span></a> lacking all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/honesty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>honesty</span></a>. The political factions using that phrase are the same that support folks claiming there is no such thing as a society. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a> is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nihalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nihalism</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>This thoughtful discussion from the left of conservative Christopher Caldwell's "The Age of Entitlement" made me think about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, white racial resentment and the roots of Trumpism, and how best to challenge Caldwell's claims.<br> <br><a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-christopher-caldwells-case-against-civil-rights/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-</span><span class="invisible">your-enemy-christopher-caldwells-case-against-civil-rights/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/1964CivilRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1964CivilRightsAct</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AdministrativeState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdministrativeState</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BabyBoomers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BabyBoomers</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChristopherCaldwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherCaldwell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheAgeOfEntitlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheAgeOfEntitlement</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a></p>
Weltschmerz à Gogo<p>Something to throw at the next person who tries to argue "but the Nazis were socialists!"</p><p>===</p><p>Whenever fascist parties acquired power, however, they did nothing to carry out these anticapitalist threats. By contrast, they enforced with the utmost violence and thoroughness their threats against socialism. Street fights over turf with young communists were among their most powerful propaganda images. Once in power, fascist regimes banned strikes, dissolved independent labor unions, lowered wage earners' purchasing power, and showered money on armaments industries, to the immense satisfaction of employers. Faced with these conflicts between words and actions concerning capitalism, scholars have drawn opposite conclusions. Some, taking the words literally, consider fascism a form of radical anticapitalism. Others, and not only Marxists, take the diametrically opposite position that fascists came to the aid of capitalism in trouble, and propped up by emergency means the existing system of property distribution and social hierarchy.</p><p>... Even at its most radical, however, fascists' anticapitalist rhetoric was selective. While they denounced speculative international finance (along with all other forms of internationalism, cosmopolitanism, or globalization -- capitalist as well as socialist), they respected the property of national producers, who were to form the social base of the reinvigorated nation. When they denounced the bourgeoisie, it was for being too flabby and individualistic to make a nation strong, not for robbing workers of the value they added. What they criticized in capitalism was not its exploitation but its materialism, its indifference to the nation, its inability to stir souls. More deeply, fascists rejected the notion that economic forces are the prime movers of history. For fascists, the dysfunctional capitalism of the interwar period did not need fundamental reordering; its ills could be cured simply by applying sufficient political will to the creation of full employment and productivity. Once in power, fascist regimes confiscated property only from political opponents, foreigners, or Jews. None altered the social hierarchy, except to catapult a few adventurers into high places. At most, they replaced market forces with state economic management, but, in the trough of the Great Depression, most businessmen initially approved of that. If fascism was "revolutionary," it was so in a special sense, far removed from the word's meaning as usually understood from 1789 to 1917, as a profound overturning of the social order and the redistribution of social, political, and economic power.</p><p>- Robert O. Paxton, 'The Anatomy of Fascism,' Vintage Books, 2004, 10-11.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://twoot.site/@TicklishHoneyBee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TicklishHoneyBee</span></a></span> Indeed. Watching women’s skateboarding progress into what it is today has been phenomenal.</p><p>But there’s a nagging feeling in the back of my head, that there might not be a new generation of women skaters to push to the next level if <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> in the USA manages to subjugate women again.</p><p>Will there be any girls who want to skate? If their everyday worlds are full of Andrew Tate -watching boys telling it will make them ”undesirable as mates”? 🤔</p>
Baloo Uriza<p>Starving kids are what the fascists want.<br> <a href="https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/07/24/did-oklahoma-turn-down-federal-money-to-feed-low-income-kids-two-summers-in-a-row/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oklahomawatch.org/2025/07/24/d</span><span class="invisible">id-oklahoma-turn-down-federal-money-to-feed-low-income-kids-two-summers-in-a-row/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.tulsa.ok.us/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.tulsa.ok.us/tags/Oklahoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oklahoma</span></a> <a href="https://social.tulsa.ok.us/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a></p>
GM7077<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a></p>
RDN<p>A survey of over 9,000 U.S. residents who completed a survey on political attitudes and personality traits found that political conservatives generally scored higher on measures of authoritarianism, social dominance, and Dark Triad (i.e., malevolent) personality traits.</p><p>Summary: <a href="https://www.psypost.org/trump-supporters-report-higher-levels-of-psychopathy-manipulativeness-callousness-and-narcissism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/trump-supporters-r</span><span class="invisible">eport-higher-levels-of-psychopathy-manipulativeness-callousness-and-narcissism/</span></a></p><p>Original paper (not open access): <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656625000704" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/abs/pii/S0092656625000704</span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/DarkTriad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkTriad</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Personality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Personality</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"If you reject the very idea that problems are systemic, then you have no use for institutions, and institutions are the only effective response to systemic problems. That primes you to reject the unsatisfying answers of science ("If you don't want to get cancer, regulate corporations and cars that dump carcinogens into the environment") in favor of individual solutions, which are, inevitably, products that someone can sell you, from alkaline water to electrosmog-shielding hats.</p><p>Rejecting systemic explanations also primes you to believe in conspiracy theories. This is why antisemitism is called "the socialism of fools": rather than fighting against the system of primacy of extractive finance capital over the productive economy, you spend all your time locked in a one-sided battle with an imaginary cabal of evil Jewish bankers.</p><p>Conspiratorial beliefs make you especially vulnerable to a grifter's sales pitch that goes like this: "Of course they don't want you to drink raw milk, otherwise you'd be as powerful as they are." Variations on this theme include "buy the miracle anti-aging cure that only billionaires are privy to" and "buy a bump stock before the conspiracy to take away your right to self-defense makes them illegal."<br>(...)<br>Many people have observed that one of the reasons conservatives govern so badly is that they campaign on the idea that "governments are wasteful and inefficient," which means that if they run the government in a wasteful and inefficient fashion, they only prove their point. In the same fashion: right-wing grifters who pitch you on the idea an evil cabal has rigged the game, and then take your money and rip you off, are demonstrating the correctness of their pitch."</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all</span><span class="invisible">-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PonziSchemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PonziSchemes</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PyramidSchemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PyramidSchemes</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MultiLevelMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MultiLevelMarketing</span></a></p>
Moriel :transgender_flag:<p>Oklahoma has announced that it will start administering political purity tests to prospective teachers to ensure that only conservatives can become teachers.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Oklahoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oklahoma</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teachers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/maga-education-head-to-introduce-ideological-purity-test-to-out-woke-teachers/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/maga-e</span><span class="invisible">ducation-head-to-introduce-ideological-purity-test-to-out-woke-teachers/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub</span></a></p>
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