• duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 years ago

    Yesterday I was listening to the Know Your Enemy podcast episode on Blue Collar Conservatives which features an interview with two former blue collar conservatives. So much of what they said about their youths (particularly an emphasis on self-help books) reminded me of my own youth, even though I grew up in a lib house. It can sometimes be difficult to disentangle liberalism from conservatism.

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      3 years ago

      difficult to disentangle liberalism from conservatism.

      Oh, why would that be, huh?

      Like really, the only clear differences are their treatment of brown, LGBT and non-christian people. All the rest is basically “murican civil religion” and McCarthyism with slightly different levels of zealotry but the lines are very blurred.

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        3 years ago

        It’s slow polite fascism versus fast impolite fascism.

        Libs however think that communists and fascists are the same.

        Fascists think that libs and communists are also the same.