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    2 months ago

    To be fair, it’s an unsourced quote from The Daily Hatemail, so odds are that she never said it.

    To be even more fair, though, it’s probably accurate whether or not that bigot ever said it out loud.

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      She did say it and its on video. Vivek himself posted the clip on his twitter saying “I disagree with her but respect that she had the guts to speak her mind” How embarassing.

      twitter post

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      I’m slightly ashamed to admit it but I actually went fishing for the most clickbaity headline on this story to post to this community. It’s not just a right wing rag talking about it, they just had the most oniony headline

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          My profile says I’ve made 2.2k posts and I’m pretty sure this is the first Daily Mail link lol. Why can’t normal people write terrible headlines??

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    2 months ago

    The US Republican Party went so far to the political right, they’re in all seriousness neo-nazis now, not conservatives.

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      2 months ago

      You say that as if this sort of shit hasn’t been what conservatism was always really about.

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        Conservatives were the people who defended King George. They have no business waving an American flag. Benedict Arnold was a conservative.

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          “Conservatives” is a misnomer here. “Conservative” isn’t right and “Progressive” isn’t left.

          Conservatives are those who want as little change as possible so as to “not rock the boat” and “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Progressives are those who want to try out new policies.

          From what I gather, a large portion of today’s Republicans aren’t actually conservatives rather regressive. That’s almost literally what “make America great again” means. That’s also the meaning of, for example, the Roe v. Wade overruling - going back to an earlier state.

          Also, in the long run the human condition generally changes for the better (Or at least that’s what we perceive as our values and habits are usually aligned with what we have now and not what we had before). As the status quo changes, the things conservatives (and progressives) value change accordingly.

          Saying “Conservatives were the people who defended King George.” as if that has anything to do with conservative today is like someone saying “Progressives on the 18th century were for women’s suffrage, they have no business talking about equality”.

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    So nice that, now that I no longer use Twitter, I don’t generally have to hear Ann Coulter’s bullshit.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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      Probably going easy on her since Daily Mail is a right wing rag but she does write ig.

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    Yep, that was hard to watch. Then Ramaswamy just being like “Oh, I respect that you can say that” or some shit