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Antonio the Sixth
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« on: February 18, 2017, 02:52:51 PM »

"Conservatism" in America stands for nothing except hitching on whatever ideology allows plutocrats to protect their interests. It seems like they have decided Milo is their new savior.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2017, 05:22:07 PM »

Great job there "conservatives." Anyone who is on board with this, and apparently the GOP power structure is, pretty much destroyed what "conservative" used to mean and replaced it with this bastardized excuse for a political message.

Again, Conservatism in America since the 1970s or so has only been about one single thing: protecting the interests and expanding the power of plutocrats.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2017, 05:27:07 PM »

Great job there "conservatives." Anyone who is on board with this, and apparently the GOP power structure is, pretty much destroyed what "conservative" used to mean and replaced it with this bastardized excuse for a political message.

Again, Conservatism in America since the 1970s or so has only been about one single thing: protecting the interests and expanding the power of plutocrats.

What was it before then?

Well, it was already in good part about that, but it also paid more than lip service to a genuine set of philosophical principles and a vision of what society should be that wasn't entirely reducible to that single goal. All this went out the window when "movement Conservatives" (rofl) took over.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2017, 08:40:09 PM »

From the principled conservatism of Barry Goldwater to the moral bankruptcy of Milo. Truly the right has given up.

And they said Barry was bad in 1964.

Because he was.

"Not as bad as modern conservatives" is a f**king low bar.
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2017, 02:38:01 PM »

How dare conservatives restrict free speech... Roll Eyes
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2017, 03:50:29 PM »

When you've lost Breitbart...
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2017, 04:24:46 PM »

- When you claim to have never supported pedophilia but you claim Catholicism is the best religion.

...seriously?
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2017, 11:21:48 PM »

Is literally everyone in the alt right a terrible person? You'd think there'd be at least one token decent one.

That's what differentiates the alt-right from Fascism. At least the Fascists had Rommel.

I think the distinctive feature of alt-right as a set of political and ethical principles is that it seems to encourage and even glorify attitudes that are degrading of personal moral character: malice, greed, narcissism etc all seem to be positive to their eyes. The evils of fascism, by contrast, were rooted mainly in its precepts for how society should be organized (and how such society would be better off without certain categories of people), but at the individual level, it at least paid lip service to universally recognized virtues such as self-sacrifice, dutifulness, bravery, etc.

Basically, the alt-right is what you get when you mix in old-school racism with Randian amoralism.
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