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  • I disagree with the conservative talking point that people become more conservative as they age. I have observed that only conservatives become more conservative as they age.

    My comment that normal people will abandon conservatism as they age refers to young people abandoning conservatism in their 20’s because their empathy is completely incompatible with conservatism.

    A young normal person who can experience empathy may be raised in a conservative household and may be trained to be conservative as a child. But as they grow up and are able to form their own views of the world, they will find their empathy to be completely incompatible with conservatism. It is not possible to experience empathy and hold conservative views simultaneously. Conservatism is not compatible with empathy. A young adult who can experience empathy will naturally move away from conservatism as they recognize how incompatible it is with being a normal, empathetic human.

    Conservatives are biologically unable to experience empathy. A child who is biologically unable to experience empathy and is raised in a conservative home is likely to become more conservative as they age because they have not been taught to value empathy.

    Further, conservatives often train their children to avoid and dislike empathy. They often call empathy “woke” and teach their children to use that word as a pejorative for any empathetic act.

    A person who cannot experience empathy may grow up with these lessons as their core values, becoming more bold about them as they age. However, a person who can experience empathy is likely to discard these lessons as they age because they are incongruent with the empathy they can personally experience and observe in others.


  • I disagree. While it is possible for a young person to learn to be conservative in their youth, a normal person will necessarily abandon conservatism as they get older. This is because a normal person will have the ability to experience empathy. It is not possible to experience empathy and hold conservative views simultaneously. Conservatism defies empathy. A person who feels empathy for others cannot also hold conservative views. They are simply incompatible with empathy in every respect.

    Not only are conservatives biologically unable to experience empathy, but they also choose malice and greed in service to their narcissism. Conservatives are unable to be taught to be normal, just as a normal person cannot be taught to be conservative in any real, lasting way. We are fundamentally, biologically different from one another.


  • This is an apt analogy. Conservatism IS cancer. It spreads and brings with it only sickness and death. There is no way to change cancer. Letting it live will kill the patient. The only cure causes pain and suffering for the survivor. Treatment is painful, messy and dangerous, but is absolutely required for survival.

    No one wants to talk about the cure for conservatism. Even the topic is uncomfortable.


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    This is exactly how I feel every time I suggest the correct way to deal with conservative fascism is with violence. Some commenter will always come along with, “that makes you just as bad as them” and “you’re part of the problem”.

    Part of the problem? Bitch, resisting force with force isn’t the fucking problem. It’s the solution.





  • This isn’t “far” right. This is how conservatism has always been. Conservatives are genuinely evil.

    Remember how they celebrated the deaths of gay people by AIDS and by gay-bashing from the 80’s through the 90’s. They fucking CELEBRATED the deaths.

    Conservatives also did everything in their power to defund and delete any AIDS research and prevent any police agencies from committing any resources to stop the violence against queer folk. Oppression has ALWAYS been part of their political platform.

    This isn’t the far right. It’s just plain old conservatism, just as it’s always been throughout all human history. Conservatives are truly, deeply evil. It is immoral to keep a relationship with any of them. Disown them all.








  • It is not easy to be accepted into a foreign legion. Most who are accepted have military experience, a high level of physical fitness and limited family ties in their country of origin.

    Ukraine’s foreign legion is an exception in that they currently accept people willing/able to help build drones. If going the foreign legion route, I strongly recommend considering Ukraine first, as they currently have the widest availability of job categories.

    I’ve seen a lot of suggestions to join NGO’s. Ukraine also has a lot of NGO options, but those jobs can be significantly more dangerous than building drones. NGO’s are frequently targeted by invaders as NGO’s often operate in active areas to serve locals where the help is most needed.


  • I’m not downvoting you. You are engaging in good faith, and I appreciate your instinct toward kindness to them.

    When conservatives are shown definitive proof that their thugs are harming innocent people, they do not change their position. They simply say, “well, I don’t know about that”. But that is a lie. They DO know about that. They do know what is happening right now and they are absolutely not interested in changing or stopping it. Their representatives hold both chambers of congress. Conservatives can stop this anytime they like and they are actively choosing not to. They completely understand the situation at this point and are choosing evil.

    I agree that they are trained to see empathy as weakness. Growing up in south Texas, living there my whole life and then retiring there, I was told empathy was a grotesque weakness my entire life. Every person who told me that was a conservative who could not experience empathy. Because I am able to experience empathy, their lies could not work on me. But the lies worked very well on my friends, neighbors and colleagues who could not experience empathy.

    I have been nothing but kind and supportive of them my entire life, mostly because I didn’t want to blame them for their biological shortcomings. It’s not their fault they can’t experience empathy. But it is their fault that they choose to harm others and celebrate that harm. Their inability to feel guilt or empathy does not absolve them. They choose to be the very definition of evil.

    I have never talked down to them. I have always been supportive and have used the Socratic method and genuine, patient curiosity to try to reach them. I mourn the loss of my friends anf family that I have disowned. No amount of patience and kindness has been effective in changing them from being a deadly threat to the vulnerable around them. Their choices result in concentration camps and the loss of human rights. And they still celebrate it.

    Conservatives will never stop harming others on their own. No amount of patience or love can make them stop. This is the sad reality of conservatism. It is cancer. There is only one way to stop cancer.


  • I agree with everything you’ve said. To answer your question about what individuals can do to fight a war with no boundaries or front lines, I look at “the troubles” in Ireland.

    While conservatives would call stochastic attacks “terrorism” (only when they are the targets of course), I don’t think the term terrorism is accurate in acts of war. These types of attacks would be targeting enemies to eliminate them, not to terrorize anyone or convince anyone to do anything differently.

    In a stochastic civil war, we would be focused on eliminating the threat, not scaring or influencing them. A conservative does not change, so attempting to frighten them or influence them is not an effective way to eliminate that threat. Negotiating with pathological liars and narcissists is also not going to work, which brings us back to the need to eliminate the threat without any other agenda.



  • I have answered this question many times and each variation of it gets removed for inciting violence. So, I will leave it to your imagination. Imagine what General Sherman would advise us to do. Imagine what John Brown would advise us to do.

    Doing the right thing is often messy and difficult. Please understand that as polite as they are to your face, your conservative neighbors do not value your life the way you value theirs. This is because conservatives do not experience empathy. They call empathy “woke”. They truly hate empathy and empathetic people. Your empathy makes them see you as their enemy. They are not kidding about that. They really do hate “woke” people. Listen to them when they tell you who they hate.

    Violence comes much more easily to a conservative than to a normal person. When conservatives see you as their enemy, they will act appropriately. If you don’t act first, you are likely to become their victim. Understand that no other country is coming to save us. Resist with force or flee. There is no third option.