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Some friends I just can’t shake

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around the neck

with a firm grip

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't care what you believe or what direction you lean politically. I won't be friends with jerkoffs and assholes.

That being said, all my friends are left-leaning. 🤷‍♂️

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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't a Muslim friend be conservative?

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[-] Disinfect056@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Yyeap that is how it feels to be a conservative today..... Cant say you are a conservative cause people will call you "rasist" "bigot" "sexist" "transphobic" and so on. Just because you think a 9 month old baby should have the same rights as a newborn. Or because you think we should have rules (and we do) behind how people cross the border. Or because you think people should pay money back if they barrow money.

Just some thoughts that will get you banned from social media.

[-] Girru00@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What 9 month old baby has less rights than a newborn? Edit: or vice versa.

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

If people are calling you racist, bigoted, sexist, and transphobic simply because you identify as a conservative, you should probably reevaluate your positions and if you truly identify with conservative values.

Nobody is aborting 9 month old fetuses outside of exceptional medical emergencies, and denying women bodily autonomy is incredibly authoritarian.

Nobody thinks there shouldn't be any rules about crossing borders, even the fringe people that are for open borders. What people disagree with is intentionally drowning people via razorwire as a deterrent, and instead want an easier path to citizenship.

Everyone thinks paying debts is a good thing, but may disagree on what constitutes a faulty, predatory system of debt that ought to be abolished in the first place, like medical debt and school debt.

The thoughts you listed alone will not get you banned from social media (outside of specific communities for specific purposes), what would is how you express those views, which can in fact be sexist, bigoted, or perhaps even racist or transphobic.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Nobody is aborting 9 month old fetuses outside of exceptional medical emergencies, and denying women bodily autonomy is incredibly authoritarian.

Nobody is aborting 9-month-old fetuses at all. Unless that fetus is already dead or dying, 9 months is well past the point of viability.

24 weeks (5 months and some change) is when a fetus could viably survive outside the womb with medical intervention. 9 months is at the point of being fully developed, even if it is a couple weeks premature.

Almost all abortions happen at 10 weeks or less, well before the point of viability. Almost no abortions happen after 24 weeks. Definitely none happening at 9 months.

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[-] cygon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I would agree that some people have become hyper-sensitized towards any statement that might be interpreted as "racist", "sexist" or "transphobic", no thanks to a definite rise of those sentiments, mainly amongst conservatives. But I firmly believe this "they call anyone conservative a nazi/a racist/a transphobe/a xenophobe" claim is a persecution complex installed onto conservatives by the media to disarm the accusations and instead turn them into anger against the "other side."

If this is about the USA, abortion used to be legal up to 12 weeks after conception, 9 months would be crazy. Also, there is no open border, nor does the current government want that (they merely insist on proper procedure, aka rules, rather than letting people drown). Republicans will likely continue to reject border deals in order to keep the topic cooking until election day and to aid America's enemies in Russia.

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[-] MinusPi@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago

Define conservative. I don't count bigotry.

[-] Dra@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

Isn't Islam technically Conservative? I'm confused

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Religion should be opposed via education, culture, and general science, not via the state. Religion is conservative, but there are good religious people.

[-] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

All religions are technically conservative. Individuals have individual relationships with their religions though.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 11 points 1 year ago

Wow, sometimes I invoke Poe's law when people say no one here gets a joke, but like what the hell happens here

It's clearly just joking mirroring. Of course we don't want intolerant people in our discourse.

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I don't agree with the fascist lifestyle. I think they should keep it behind closed doors. On another planet. Not this one.

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[-] rastro@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I have conservative friends. Almost all of them oppose Trump. The point you think you’re making isn’t as clear as you think. The narrative of someone using the “I’m a conservative and I’m being silenced/discriminated” isn’t coming from actual conservatives but rather from MAGA and white nationalist clowns pushing a hateful, un-Christian, not actually classic conservative agenda.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

I think it's a joke at the expense of many who deserve it.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago
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