“i vote MAGA, but im too much of a wuss to admit it out loud.”
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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I don't want to be included with the rest of the domestic terrorists in my political party.
I think they're a goddamn idiot. I like it more when people tell me that they don't have enough time to think about this shit and so they don't have an opinion.
Someone who is a conservative who has a gay friend or a gay kid that they love and accept.
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"I don't understand what those words mean and I'm taking the coward's way out of this conversation."
Every discussion I've had with someone who said this has led me to expect ignorance. I think its something people who don't know much like to say because they think it sounds good.
I used to think this, because I was against government waste. But I also supported welfare programs, so I was just using the wrong terms for my ideas.
"I'm a dumb cunt"
I assume they vote liberal or are uncomfortable being seen as the hateful sack of shit they are.
If we're talking America the parties align like this:
- Democrat: Socially moderate, fiscally conservative
- Republican: Socially regressive, fiscally liberal
Republican: Socially regressive, fiscally liberal
Are massive tax cuts really considered fiscally liberal? The vast majority of the deficits that Republicans cause are due to tax cuts choking government funding.
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"You've been duped". Because people like this never acknowledge the amount of corporate welfare going on in America, if you want to be fiscally conservative, stop paying for profit companies from government coffers. Don't go after food stamps, that is just veiled prejudice
“I like to have my cake and eat it too”.
I would think, "the accuracy of that statement depends on your voting record".
"I smoke weed but think you're lazy if you make less money than me"
Probably racist but hides it
"Socially liberal" right up until the point that we start talking about worker's rights, the dignity of poor people, and the exploitation of cheap slave labor on the other side of the world
"I'm discriminating towards poor people".
“Fuck the poor but I do like to smoke weed”
"Liar."
Libertarians don't actually care about social progress if it affects a business's bottom line negatively.
Assuming they're American: they're an idiot. Sorry. They don't understand how things are intertwined, and you can't have social justice for free. If you let laissez-faire policies be, you don't get socially liberal outcomes. You get capitalist dystopia.
My first thought is to wonder what they mean, as opposed to deciding it must be the worst thing I can think of.
Greedy cunt
Screaming from the far left, there are a lot of people in scarcity or precairity in our society, a society that would collapse if they all suddenly fell incapacitated from their want.
It is our fucking duty as fellow citizens to stabilize them.
Conservatism at its core is ignoring their need in the name of tradition. To the ninth charnel circle of Hell with that.
I think we have countless words. We should use our words.
We all have a spectrum of social and economic and other ideals.
Those who want to lead us have theirs too, and they’re the ones who need us to commit and compartmentalize into ideologies and macro definitions that get twisted.
They voted for trump and agree with everything he says but don't want to own up to it
Usually they are lying. It means they hate poor people.
I would think they want to not get caught up in a culture war, but also don't want a ton of government programs and costs and don't want to incur debt.
But people have no idea what anything means anymore and they just use words, like woke, and they use them wrong. So who even knows if people are talking about the same thing.
Raging asshole.
Housing and human rights matter and we should stop spending so much money on bombing houses and killing people.
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It makes sense to me. There's no middle ground anymore and nowhere for these people to go. It sucks. Many people want fiscal conservatism but also support common sense social issues. I don't see what's so weird about this. The people accusing these people of being republicans or bad people are fucking idiots and shows the average understanding of politics/policy on Lemmy.
Edit: To clarify, I'm not saying that this describes me. Just that i totally understand it.