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[–] Dankry 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

TL;DR Modern republican campaigns are a roadside souvenir stand hawking tacky knickknacks on middle american yokels who are too dumb and disinterested to care about anything besides cringey puns printed on cheap Chinese merchandise. No ideas. No solutions. Only trinkets.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think it is wrong to say that a trait of a modern conservative is that they are very gullible and easily conned.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like what we're witnessing is Republican politicians slowly realizing they've been giving their base too much credit

[–] Eldritch 5 points 1 year ago

It's been a trait of conservatism since it's inception. Conservatism in all forms seeks to enshrine the status quo. Conserving nature is a no brainier good thing. Conserving selfish, bigoted human social structures is ALWAYS a BAD thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I find it fascinating. It's a lot like Rome or Lourdes where they sell an endless stream of tat to the faithful.

[–] PoopSpiderman 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s a sucker born every minute, and two to take him.

A fool, and his money are soon parted.

It’s easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they’ve been fooled.

Republicans are really fucking stupid. I’m tired of their incessant whining. They are the most fragile, and sensitive people on the planet. All of their “try that in a small town” shit is bluster. They are cowards.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They think everyone that lives in a city was born there when half of us were born in those small towns and left because of no jobs and ignorant assholes.

[–] Wookie_the_Ewok 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Republicans would eat Satan's shit if it meant a Democrat would have to smell their breath.

[–] RubberElectrons 2 points 1 year ago

Holy damn hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sure.

owning is just scorn and mockery. and what else do they have? nothing. no solutions to any of modern world problems. so if ones brain is incapable of finding a solution to a problem the logical behaviour for humans is to make fun of it and if thats not working to solve a problem to increase the mockery to a level of delusion.

[–] gk99 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably a reason they have to come up with names like "libtards" while we can just say "conservatives" as an insult because it's self-explanatory.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because they have no platform nor plans for any real issues.

[–] dhork 17 points 1 year ago

They literally have no platform. They passed a resolution during the last convention in 2020 saying they would not publish a new platform.

That's when I realized they were no longer a political party, and were now a lifestyle brand that sponsors politicians. Which is a genius move. You can't break political promises to your constituents if you don't make any.

[–] Candelestine 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dingding. It's hard to get elected when your platform is "Make no improvements".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And yet they scream "election fraud" when they don't get elected like... uh, you can't just be screaming "dems bad" for 4 years and offer little to no alternative but expect a majority of the votes. That's not how it works

It MAY have worked somehow in 2016 but MOST people learned. We ain't that stupid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Which is also why they use so much newspeak. A limited vocabulary serves to hinder nuanced discussion or critical thought.

[–] reddig33 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The irony being the ones doing the purchasing are being owned. The libs are laughing at you wasting your money on crap merch with cringe slogans. You’re being grifted. If anything, when someone wears this crap in public it tells the rest of us who to steer clear of/avoid in real life.

[–] shalafi 5 points 1 year ago

I've seriously played with the idea of cranking out conservative merchandise. My god, it's too easy to con these people.

In a similar vein, thought about being a cult leader.

I just don't have the mental fortitude to carry it out, keep up the lie. Hell, I can barely tell a white lie when necessary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It'd be interesting if they went back to having an actual ideology instead of just competing to see who can be the biggest spiteful asshole.

[–] MossBear 6 points 1 year ago

Terribly sorry, but I don't feel remotely owned by any of this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They love symbols like SS and confederate flags. This makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I honestly feel sorry for all these rubes, getting so wrought up, throwing their money away at shitty puns being anti-woke when they don't even know what that means. They have no idea that the people they are supporting with shitty boomer memes are also the same people that are making their lives as shitty as their memes. They don't see beyond the culture war grandstanding to see that their rights are being stolen one by one. I pity them donating their money at bible salesmen in rich suits promising them righteousness in the form of hate for the other.

[–] ProdSlash 2 points 1 year ago

Just like 2016.

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