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[Moldy Monday] I Have Friends Rule (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Maxxus to c/[email protected]

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Some friends I just can’t shake

hard enough

around the neck

with a firm grip

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

shifts uncomfortably

Nope! I know what conservatives want and what they stand for, when I tell them to fuck off it's with pride and volume. Conservative isn't a race, a color, a religion or a sexuality. It's not beyond your control. It's a series of moral decisions made by a fully competent adult who can absolutely be held responsible for what they believe and what they try to do with their power in the world.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Wouldn't a Muslim friend be conservative?

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[–] rastro 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months 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.

[+] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (25 children)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (33 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Define conservative. I don't count bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Isn't Islam technically Conservative? I'm confused

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

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

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[–] Outtatime 8 points 10 months ago

If you have Muslim friends you have extreme conservative friends

[–] mindbleach 7 points 10 months ago

If you want to be friends then why aren't you friendly?

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