• ThePowerOfGeek
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    59 months ago

    …Says the guy who appears on TV wearing makeup, with sculpted hair, and with manicured nails. Whatever dude.

    To be clear: I don’t think there’s anything wrong with guys having any of the things I just mentioned. Not my personal thing, but if you are a guy who likes them then more power to you. But according to Fox News, none of those things are ‘manly’. So the hypocrisy of this clown is palpable.

  • @Zink@programming.dev
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    119 months ago

    It seems like a stupid statement that deserves to be made fun of, which it is, but it’s also indicative of one of the dark parts of the conservative mindset. There’s the bigotry of course, but there’s another layer on top of that. It’s like, since you are obviously one of the good true Americans (a straight white male, naturally), it is beneath you to submit to being ruled by one of those “others.”

    Submission to a weak inferior sub-human leader is a weak and cowardly act. It is also an insult to your fellow nobles, so you are betraying yourself and “your people” by voting for somebody who is clearly not the right type of person.

    Repeat and reinforce this shit over years and decades, make it part of your group identity, and you get things like “better a Russian/felon than a Democrat” (because democrats love being cucks for “diverse” people obviously) and a deep-seated visceral reaction to somebody who is an other in so many ways. A woman AND multiple nonwhite races, oh my!

    Source: am straight white male who grew up in religious conservative area and had to work to shed all the tribalism and anger and negativity. (It’s part of the wider problem of so many conservatives defining their identity by the things they hate)

  • palordrolap
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    79 months ago

    Dude needs to look into who Margaret Thatcher was and her politics. See how much that gums up his brain gears, because, even outside the fact she was a woman, she was a conservative’s ultimate fantasy.

    • @Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      To give three things off the top of my head that might make modern Cons sour on her: She accepted the science on climate change, wanted the UK in the EU, and ceased arms sales to Israel in 1982 due to the invasion of Lebanon.

      She’s not culture wars enough for them, even if she was economically ruinous, just as they desire.

      What they really want is a Thatcher Mechagodzilla who spouts all the culture wars lines they want, has huge stomping feet that kill poor people, and fires detransitioning lasers from its eyes. It can also be AI powered and take away the need for any thinking or education at all.

      • palordrolap
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        19 months ago

        Not all con states want to secede from the union, but then again they’re not islands, so that one’s hard to gauge.

        Also, most con politicians here were very invested in remaining in Europe right up until we weren’t. The promise of a referendum was a hail Mary to try to win the votes of a particular contingent of voters. They got the votes, but never expected the referendum to go the way it did. Leopard, meet face.

        Now they’re having to pretend it was the intention all along. Make the best of it, etc.

        There’s also an argument to be made that her stance on climate change was entirely because of the desire to hurt the workers of the fossil fuel industry, especially one in particular, which outweighed all other priorities.

        The Israel thing I don’t know too much about, but I can be virtually certain it wasn’t about protecting the people of Lebanon from a bully.

  • Lemminary
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    129 months ago

    And women who vote for men grow beards overnight. End women’s suffrage; save on razor blades and shaving cream!

  • mozz
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    89 months ago

    When you are too nuts for Jeanine Pirro you are too nuts

    • MudMan
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      39 months ago

      Oh, it depends who you’re nuts against. I bet it’s much easier to piss her off with rhetoric that targets what she considers to be her achievements specifically.

  • Flying Squid
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    179 months ago

    Ok. So don’t vote for Majorie Tyalor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Joni Earnst, Marcia Blackburn, Kay Ivey, Kristi Noem… I can literally keep going for a very long time.

  • katy ✨
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    269 months ago

    transphobes: men can’t become women

    cis man: votes for a woman

    transphobes: omg you became a woman!