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Little bit of all of the above, plus it creates a mechanism for dealing with enemies. Anyone can be sent to the concentration camps in El Salvador without trial, because they’re already doing it.

Bullshit. Conservativism has always been a carefully constructed narrative built around the identity of the contemporaneous conservative leadership. Twas always thus, and always will be. Step 1: Define the self. Step 2: decide if the status quo benefits the self. If it does, then it must be conserved in the guise of stoicism, tradition, or precaution. If it does not, then it must be changed to prevent the collapse of civil society.

Abortion is an excellent example of exactly this phenomenon, and I’m glad you brought it up. Christian nationalism is another example of a version of conservativism that is tailor-made to fit the identity of the Christian conservative. There isn’t any sort of conservative that doesn’t pick and choose their priorities based on who they are and how they are directly affected.

This is what it means to be a conservative. There are no fundamentally conservative values. Each conservative gets to redefine what conservativism is based on their own identity. It’s never about achieving anything more than a personal win.

They were upset about the term “rioters,” and kept calling them “visitors” and “tourists.”

It’s paywalled. Am I supposed to just boycott all chicken then?

It wasn’t “leaked.”

Member when nobody wanted to call the terrorists who engaged in an actual terror attack on the Capitol building to prevent the peaceful transition of power on Jan 6 “terrorists” because they were worried that it was inflammatory language?

How is it possible for Democrats to be so fucking outmatched by the crew who accidentally included a liberal journalist in their war room group chat?

PA has always been a weird purple state. We have demographics across the political spectrum, and most of the elected officials on both sides of the aisle are moderates and centrists. There’s little political will to pull the conservative social bullshit you see in the South, but there also isn’t much of a progressive movement out of any of the cities. We have high concentrations of extreme wealth in the suburbs bordering extreme poverty in urban and rural communities. We have horse farms and cities. We have shale deposits, corporate headquarters, strong unions, and meth labs. We have a significant Jewish population and a significant number of hate groups and christofascists. We have immigrants and Amish. We have some of the best schools and worst schools in the country, and they play football against each other.

If there’s one rule in PA politics, it’s that business is business. Fascists and progressives don’t get far because they both impede business. Most residents are exposed to a variety of people, but there’s enough land between the haves and the have nots to prevent too much empathy from taking root. The state legislature will always be red, and the executives will tend to be blue. Even if there’s a blue wave, it won’t likely result in anything too impressive.

The best part of this feature is that it’s clearly a result of iterative design. So engineers were trying to solve constipation, and someone with a PhD was like “Well, you know what works for me…”

The finger cot is there because zero G and dehydration commonly result in constipation.

It’s really not that complicated. Shit’s broke, tyranny reigns.

… Are we supposed to guess what that term is?

She’s married to a Kennedy. She is not expecting fidelity.