• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    I’m in Philly and I read local reports of I.C.E. Raids… 😖 (I’m a US Citizen, but I’m not white)

    Just google “Philadelphia ICE Raid” and you’ll the what I’m talking about.

    I saw some reports that some college kids at Temple University, are pretending to be ICE agents and harassing people, they got suspended (hopefully expelled). They are facing charges of impersonating the authorities. (probably getting a pardon by their nazi in chief)

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    7 days ago

    In my country you need to be accused of being a communist in order to be arrested. Well sometimes there were no accusations just arrests, but at least we were an official dictatorship.

    Signed: anywhere in South America in the 80s. Thanks Obama McArthur

    Epiphany: are climate scientists a tool of communist hoaxes? Dang, you’re all getting arrested soon aren’t y’all

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      7 days ago

      Gonna get downvoted, but conservative ideals should be present to some minor extent to balance things out. I don’t mean modern conservatives or Republicans, but the concept of fiscal conservatism (e.g. preventing waste in the military). I’m not talking about the fIsCaL cOnSeRvAtIsM that current Republicans preach either, like hollowing out social programs to give tax cuts to their buddies. So yeah that’s of course not what we have now, but there should be a healthy balance for that kind of thing.

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        7 days ago

        The problem is that what you describe is not conservatism, it’s just basic competence in governance. It’s an impressive achievement of the radical right that they have managed to get people to conflate the two.

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          7 days ago

          Sure that’s fair. Whatever you want to label it, there needs to be some kind of balances against full progressivism so it doesn’t go extremely far to the left. I say this as a pretty far left progressive in most things, but have some minor conservative ideals (such as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources). Again, I’m well aware that’s not modern Conservatism in the US these days.