I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.
I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.
“conservative”
Today people who self-identify as conservative are basically all assholes with a deep hatret towards dignity, humanity, society and nature. They’re proud to be assholes, they’re vice-signalling.
But the actual word - “conservative” - it has lost all meaning. What are they “conserving”? They’re against environmentalism. I’d like to “conserve” nature so that future generations may still live on it. Am I now conservative? They want to burn everything down even the things they claim to uphold. They yell about freedom of speech and ban books at the same time. They shit on rules and all long-standing conventions, norms and just basic human tactfulness. What things are they “conserving”? The word has lost all meaning and means just bigoted loud asshole today.
Conservatives “conserve” social hierarchy.
yeah I feel like the meaning has stayed pretty accurate
The word “conservative” has always meant the same precise thing: narcissism. It is the personal ideology of whatever is good for the conservative, dressed in a stoic preservation of an ideal that is poorly defined The conservative feigns resistance to change “for chage’s sake” but will instantly abandon any position the very instant that it affects them directly. There are no philosophical positions, no economic policies, no political ideologies that are inherently “conservative.” Rather, the conservative determines what is worthy of being “conserved” and what needs to be changed. There has never been universal agreement about what positions a conservative must adhere to, and the most successful conservative parties rally around the identity of the core leadership.
Trump is not an aberration of conservativism. He is the quintessence of conservativism, the inevitable avatar of pure conservative faith in the idea that being part of the in group is more important than whatever the in group stands for.
But there has never been any point in history where those who identify as “conservative” have been anything else.