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2026-07-14 12:47 UTC

@RickiTarr@beige.party To frame it in a way even a conservative can understand: Would you rather they were here out bidding your child on buying their first home? Buying up all the healthcare to make themselves liver forever so you get none? Do you really want to live next to a 800 pound economic gorilla that can come round and take whatever they want, whenever they want it? Or can we tell them to fuck off?

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@jzb@hachyderm.io 2026-07-14 14:07

@doctormo@floss.social @RickiTarr@beige.party Conservatives, IME, tend to think they won't personally be affected by things until they are personally affected by things. It doesn't matter to them if my child or your child is impacted; only if their child is impacted, and maybe not even then. ("Well, they just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like I did.") There's a huge lack of empathy and logic when it comes to policy for conservatives. A short-term win of punishing the "weak" or the other is worth the (not so) long-term risk that they'll be harmed. There's plenty of interviews now with FAFO'ed conservatives who are being bitten by Trump's policies, and it's amazing how few are introspective enough to see that they did it to themselves. They really thought they'd be exempted from consequences.

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