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    That and religion.

    Not sure you can say religion is a conservative value in itself. Some forms of religion lend themselves to conservatism, because of the values they espouse. But you’d have to look at those particular values to find the conservatism, not just a blanket “religion”. I suspect you have a particular form of religion in mind. Are Wiccans conservative? Buddhists? Satanists?

    As for the rest, it’s environmentalism, not conservatism. You’ll find fewer conservatives who want to conserve ecosystems than non-conservatives. Conservatism doesn’t mean conserving stuff in general, and in fact “keep stuff” would be either meaningless or foolish as a philosophy.

    Conservatism’s distinctive feature is that it wants to conserve entrenched privilege, wealth, and power structures. And where those are harmful, oppressive, or exploitative, it wants to conserve the harm, the oppression, and the exploitation. Conservatism towards power implies a destructive attitude to many other things.


  • Unsurprisingly, right-wing media is lying, claiming that these were lefties:

    some conservative media outlets have seized on aspects of the story to imply that the plotters were actually bad seeds of the far left. One of the alleged plotters, an article in the Federalist argued, “parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein”.

    Also, Donald Trump does protect child predators connected to sex offender and former best buddy of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.








  • He kicked all the remaining left wing out of the Labour Party at a time when left-wing policies were very popular with the members. He has overseen some pretty regressive social policy, particularly in catering to transphobes. He’s a liar and has no charisma. He put Peter Mandelson back in a powerful position though he was known to be a bad guy and an Epstein associate. He has taken Labour to the right, abandoning its base while offering nothing but more of the vaguely Thatchery stuff the UK has suffered from for decades. He committed the government to more austerity than even the Tories had dared to implement, at a time when poverty is a massive problem in the UK. He handed chunks of the NHS to Palantir. Conservatives don’t like him and left-wingers don’t like him and no one trusts him. He’s been so uninspiring that the electorate is sleepwalking towards fascism. Plus there’s the Israel thing and the crackdown on anyone who expresses sympathy with Palestinians. It’d be quicker to list what he has done right.

    Edit: This video shows why he was so unlikeable:

    https://youtu.be/9qNZyOO3ESI




















  • From the linked System76 blog:

    New York’s proposed Senate Bill S8102A requires adults to prove they’re adults to use a computer, exercise bike, smart watch, or car if the device is internet enabled with app ecosystems. The bill explicitly forbids self-reporting and leaves the allowed methods to regulations written by the Attorney General. Practical methods for a bill of such extreme breadth would require, in many instances, providing private information to a third-party just to use a computer at all. Privacy disappears.

    That’s appalling, and NY won’t be the only government trying it. This is going to be one of those battles we need to fight again and again.