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What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?

🧵 I periodically repost this link to a mind-blowing, powerful explanation, a must read. “Q: What is conservatism? A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.” /1

pages.gseis.ucla.edu

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If you (the oligarchs) can keep folks outraged over the perceived “sins” of the culture, give them American football games to watch, and make any sort of cooperation among workers seem a grave threat to society, you can stay in minority power, drain everybody’s wallets, and make them like it.

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(“Servants, obey your masters,” the Bible says) — the modern ruling class has it figured the same way. Convince your political base to be separate from “the others,” tell them unions are bad, & it’s an evil government which spends money for the benefit of everyone. Downplay corporate welfare. /5

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. . . that “conservative” means being Christian, having family values, a work ethic, morals, law and order, nationalism, toughness, “the cowboy way,” and superiority to those who aren’t like you. Just as emperor Constantine saw that promoting Christianity would make it easy to control people — /4

Now you can understand how the Republican base has been fooled. The real Conservatives are the billionaire oligarchs, who exploit the working class (& more minor capitalists) to funnel wealth to the top. Understand that the ruling class has brainwashed their political base into believing . . . 3/

“Q: What is wrong with conservatism? A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world.” /2

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What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?

🧵 I periodically repost this link to a mind-blowing, powerful explanation, a must read. “Q: What is conservatism? A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.” /1

pages.gseis.ucla.edu

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I have no illusion that this will happen — but it *should* happen.

thehill.com

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This article is for thise who appreciate word-smithery. ‘In Esquire, Mark Warren plumbed the cruelties of our digital age: “The story of the internet is of tribes hurling rocks over the horizon at targets they cannot see, doing damage that they do not care to measure.”’

nytimes.com

Opinion | The Best Sentences of 2024 (Gift Article)

An ugly year in politics was a gorgeous one for words.

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy holidays, if you celebrate or take festive time off, enjoy and be well

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

In He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named’s first term, Dems resisted right away. This time, many have a wait-and-see attitude. That will not work. Fight!! www.politicsnc.com/p/dont-give-...

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

There’s nothing like stepping outside of your own little world to give you a fresh perspective on your own little world. Go to Portugal and talk to an Uber driver from Bangladesh about what happens when a government turns anti-immigrant. That will get you started.

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Remember how Republicans for years have tried to block the agendas of Democratic administrations? Now it’s our turn. Don’t help them do anything.

Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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If Elon and Vivek are looking for cuts, they can start with Trump's 3-day weekend trips to Mar-a-Lago, which cost taxpayers $1.3 million (almost every week) from 2017-2020. Today's cost will be closer to $2 million per weekend.... that's a lot of bread.

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This should have started the day after the election, and the machines should have been impounded in place.

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🌸 Lovin' Eleven 🌸 @lovineleven.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Yesterday I saw two trolls (or bots) arguing with each other. They carried their argument into comment threads on other people’s posts. Lots of ad hominem attacks, name calling on both sides of the argument. It was so weird it might have been AI generated. Blocked both.

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There are some big accounts I just *have to* follow. But when I see someone has 350k followers & they follow only 12, that doesn’t sit well with me. It’s not egalitarian. So listen, big shots, follow everyone who follows you. You can Mute them if you don’t want them in your feeds, but follow back

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Block, don’t engage. Send them back to Xitter

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I think that is exactly what happened. The day after the election all voting machines should have been impounded in place until a forensic audit was done. Better still, they all should have been vetted before the election. And what happened when polling places were evacuated d/t bomb threats?

You are all welcome, but the last time I reposted something like this I got a bunch of followers who only post gay porn. I’m sorry that’s the way it is. Love you all.

45 will have to deliver *something* for Putin. It’s not optional imo.

I don’t have hard evidence either. Russian interference in our recent election was not as obvious as in 2016 or 2020, but it was there, and 45 owes big favors for it. He’s already said he can end the Ukraine war “in one day”—Europe won’t play though. They will keep helping. . . .

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These sanctions are in large part why Putin’s minister, the day after our election, said 45 won with help, and owes favors to those who helped him. This is also why Putin last week casually mentioned that 45 is “not safe from assassination in the US.”

That would be the just and patriotic thing to do

I feel you. I got tired of spending time blocking people for DMs—some of them wanting money for crypto, weed, starving Africans. I don’t need DMs for anything and it’s easy to disable the feature.

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That explains it then. 45 needed Musk for the money, but he still owes Putin favors

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That would be good and just

Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

45 is going to France? Isn’t that bail jumping?

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Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Putin is richer than Musk, but can’t give rubles to 45 so easily

Mr_Kim_B @mrkimb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Sorry your dad is suffering, and you too. There is just beginning to be evidence that long covid patients have live viruses hiding somewhere, maybe in the gut, suggesting antiviral drugs may be a cure. Ask the doctors about it