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  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Conservative: Schools should be run by the free market.

    Free market: I'm going to make the gayest school of all time, and I'm going to run it so well that even straight people will want to go there.

    Conservative: visibly shaking

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've always wondered whether conservatives are being stupid or just disingenuous about what they actually want.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Both. They use le free market because it lets them hide their goals, but they also huff their own farts and get confused when the market doesn't give them what they want.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Conservatives and liberals both believe the market can supply some kind of internal implicit goodness if guided in the correct directions. Conservatives believe all possible consumer options are available to all people simultaneously, but it gets incoherent when they can't get what they want or they see gay people on TV.

        They don't know what they actually want most of the time.

      • scraeming [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Their worldview is born out of ignorance, and their response to being unable to materially parse a way through the fog to their end goal (because all their mechanisms for action are idealistic liberalism/fascism) is to willingly engage in disingenuous behavior to try and weasel their way into what they want.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      They took er jerbs but with the straights infiltrating lgbt spaces, events, and lingo.

    • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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      3 years ago

      Conservatives screaming about the free market then screaming even louder when the free market does things they don’t like

      • VernetheJules [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        "the free market is perfect, that's why we force it to aggressively and violently subsidize our ideas"