• DragonAce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why are these assholes so against helping people? These fuckers are nothing but greedy sociopaths.

    • bauhaus@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      conservatives view social hierarchy as a necessity which must be enforced. if you’re at the bottom, you deserve to be there, and if you’re there, you suffer because you deserve it, and because you’re at the bottom, you deserve to suffer. cruelty is the point, and without it, there can’t be the joy of their success.

      anything else, to them, is profane and must be fought/destroyed. anyone who tries to climb above their position must be punished.

      relevant videos:

      The Alt-Right Playbook: Always a Bigger Fish

      Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wilholt’s law, “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.”

      Aka, “you’re not hurting the right people”

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        “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

        ― John Kenneth Galbraith