Wait. Are they different people?! WTF?

Jeez. I was about to say the opposite, that he fits the conservative xtian stereotype pretty well. But both statements look correct to me.

I’m sorry about your loss of friends. Your comment about knowing exactly what your friend of 20 years would say in any situation and realizing he cannot be saved really resonates with me.

I also hope the other commenter (and Altemeyer) are right, although I have not read the book. I have a glimmer of hope for us, particularly after seeing the results of the midterms. But the fact that we’re having this conversation suggests we all know the fight is nowhere near done. Esoecially as long as billionaires exist.

Stay strong. You are not alone, as much as it may sometimes feel that way. The more people I talk openly with about these subjects, the more common experiences I find, even with people I would not have suspected felt similarly. All the advice to “find community” seems to be pretty accurate, albeit challenging.

I’ll respond to both of you here.

I have considered myself anti-authoritarian since I was a teenager in the 80’s. I was a “punk” who associated with a group of people who called ourselves SHARPS or Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice. I cringe at how silly that sounds now as I type that out, but I think it illustrates where our hearts were at the time. We absolutely did not think it was silly at the time. It was a violent response to a problem we had with racist skinheads being absolutely everywhere we wanted to be. I think this ideology saved us from a much worse fate, because we really did turn the tables over time by becoming a very violent problem for the racist skinheads.

I am from the south, just outside of a major city, but this ideology/response actually started somewhere up north and just spread overnight to us through punk shows (where racist skinheads were kicking everyone’s asses). My best friend at the time had his leg broken when he was attacked by skinheads outside of a club downtown one night, and that was the beginning for us. We were 14 when that happened, lying about our age and begging for rides from friends to get into punk shows. My group of friends would have become violent in response to the racists whether the SHARP ideology became available to us or not. Sadly, a couple of those friends grew up to become conservatives somehow. They are fucking dead to me and it hurts my soul to say that. But back then, we just absolutely overwhelmed the racists at shows and at school. We picked on them and bullied them every chance we could and when we could, we jumped them just as they jumped us before. It got to a point where they stopped showing up to punk shows entirely by the early 90’s

Anyway, that’s a lot of words to say I have always despised fascist bullies and I admit I may have a bit of a warped sense of what constitutes a “nazi”. I have given this so much thought that I may be guilty of overthinking it all. But, in 2020, watching my conservative colleagues become complete dickbags, I felt all that rage coming back. That is when I think I began to see all conservatives as nazis. It seems extremely obvious to me that nazism in the 40’s was just unchecked conservatism. Social distancing led me to retire from my career to just get away from conservatives. And things have only gotten worse with conservatism/nazism since then.

I have more to say, but this is already a really longwinded comment.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Fuck conservatives. They are all nazis in my book.

I am not implying she is a nazi. Roberts has been extra nice lately, if you haven’t noticed. Let me be more clear, the SIX nazis on the SCOTUS are panicking.

So true. We need to handle conservatives as the deadly infestation they actually are.

MAGA was just a symptom of the much larger disease of conservatism. The disease has metastasized and is long overdue for a permanent cure.

Don’t believe conservatives when they pretend they are done. They are already regrouping. They will be back, and next time it will be much worse if we don’t eliminate this disease while we have the chance.

FUN FACT: Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. They will say absolutely anything to get the result they want in the moment. A conservative will lie about what they want for lunch if they think it will benefit them in some way. Trump is just a reflection of that fact.

Conservatism should be a disqualifier for any position of authority in any developed country.

Damn right!

You’re not the boss of me.

They aren’t having an epiphany. This is just conservative nazi self-preservation. They know the next president is unlikely to be who they thought it would be.

The idea of having their own permanent conservative kingdom seems less likely to them, so that ruling could become a serious liability for them with a highly motivated progressive president in place.

I respect your kindness. I wish I could still feel that in me. I’m old, retired and angrier than I’ve ever been in my life. These nazis are an infestation at this point and it seems excruciatingly obvious to me now that my years of turning the other cheek were wasted.

I could have been pushing back against these shitbags this entire time and I truly regret being so kind to them. Conservatives see kindness as weakness. Not pushing back is how they’ve gotten this strong and overtly evil. I feel like I am partly to blame for this situation for being so nice all these years.

I have finally reached an age where I truly don’t give a single fuck about a conservative nazi life anymore and am going to make up for lost time in the very little time I have left. All that is to say I genuinely do respect your position of kindness. It just doesn’t work for me anymore because I think it will only make the conservatism even worse.

Conservatives love that chemical taste. Seriously. I was born in the rural south and if you complain about the taste of contaminated well water near processing plants, you get made fun of as a “pussy”. They intentionally won’t drink filtered water, cUz ThAt’S WoKe y’All!

Those states should send a message to conservative nazi bigots by telling Buccees they’re not welcome. Deny permits and make them as unwelcome as possible.

Guys, come on. Be nice. He can’t just do whatever his constituents want. He has a job to do for AIPAC and Palantir.

What do you mean by definition?! Sounds like you haven’t properly studied Kuwame Rosenthal’s Treatise of the Plebian in it’s original Portuguese. Try reading a book before having an opinion on words, you capitalist nazi!

As long as conservatives continue to live, they will continue to oppress and kill everyone around them.

Ohhh, so AIPAC approves of impeaching Hegseth. Got it.

And I have contempt for bigoted cockroaches. We need to finish Sherman’s work.