Fiscal conservatism doesn't work, any economist can tell you that.
You're completely correct that conservatism destroyed its reputation when it allied with the religious right in an attempt at political power. The regressives took over the GOP, calling themself conservatives all the while. Terrible to watch from the outside, but like I said, giving up is not the answer. The only thing to do is push back, and try to save what can be saved.
Once you have the forbidden knowledge it constantly calls to be used.
I have the opposite problem. Only remember clothes and hair, never faces. It affects my life a lot, though.
I have a nervous tick test only comes out in very rare situations (access to a particular weight of cloth at hand height) and caused me to develop a thick callous on the thumb side of the first knuckle on each middle finger.
I'm a conservative, and no. Charlie Kirk was awful. I'm a pacifist, so I'm not glad he's dead but I'm not surprised either. "Those who live by the sword" and all that.
"Burn it all down" flies straight in the face of conservatism anyway. It's all about tying to save the good things in society from destruction. When it feels like the government or society is all gone wrong is the time when it's most important to save what we can.
I'll be honest, it's hard to feel hopeful when our current President won reëlection on a deeply regressive platform. The man is hostile to any kind of conservatism because he hates checks on his power. His vocal wrath is directed against progressive standards because that's what riles up his base but at the same time he's doing damage to our government and social institutions that will last for generations. He's a nightmare for conservatism. But that just makes it all the more important to fight the tide. Giving up and burning it all down is not the answer.
I try not to.
That's always true. In real life, and online. You can't control what people think or say.
If you want to witness it, don't block them. It's your peace of mind, you decide how to spend it.
if so many of the sane users block the same nutjobs, then there won’t be anybody to downvote or refute those nutjobs
Don't worry, a lot of us never block anybody, specifically so we can do exactly that.
I didn't go to that kind of school. My graduating class was 47 people; about a third of us had been together since kindergarten. We all got along, how could we not?
I'm not comfortable with any game that takes over 100Mb for core game files. That's insane.
I get food cravings while full, but that's what gum is for.
I'm curious how you came to your conclusions, too, because the point of conservatism, to me, is to prevent destruction.
I've been a environmental conservationist my whole life. As I became an adult and aware of politics, I came to realize that just as the natural environment requires protection against the selfishness, greed, and short-sightedness of humanity, so too do all the social and political systems that take decades or centuries to build but only years or months to destroy (as we've seen under the current administration).
It's been said many times that at the heart of all conservatism is fear. That's not a very generous way to put it, but neither is it inaccurate. Fear of loss, fear of risk, fear of change. Conservatism holds that if things are pretty good, most changes are likely to make things worse and not better, and so change is to be treated with suspicion, and people pushing for it doubly so, since altruism is rare.
A bicycle needs both pedals and brakes. We need to move forward, but not recklessly. Before a change is made, the case needs to be argued as to why it is necessary, what it will cost (and there's always a cost), how to ensure it actually achieves what it sets out to achieve, and how it might be misused in the future. In other words, before a change can be made in the name of Progress, it needs to be demonstrated that the change actually is Progress. To progressives, this feels like standing in the way of Progress. To a conservative, this is safeguarding Progress, the Progress previous generations achieved, from changes that, again, are more likely to be bad than good.