Turned the screen upside down with the keyboard shortcut (whatever it is)
A friend of mine just opened up the Spanish teacher’s tower while she was out of the room and stole her RAM. He was in IT and was the student assigned to try and fix it too, which was hilarious.
As funny as it seems to say, I feel that “Conservativism” is unfairly maligned. Most of the bad things about what is called “Conservativism” are not really parts of Conservativism at all but are ideologies associated with Conservativism - “Rugged Individualism”, Neoliberalism in general, religious fundamentalism.
We’ll probably disagree on this point (and that’s okay), but you can look at China. China is a very conservative country, with strong cultural values regarding family, social conformism, and civic nationalism. It is Conservativism without Capitalism, Individualism, or Religion.
I just don’t think framing the issue as “Us, the first-world middle class vs. Them, impoverished third-worlders” is a helpful one. We are both victims of Imperialism. Nationalism can be important for these third-world countries but I think it’s counterproductive in America as it exists.
As I’ve gotten older I find myself being more of a conservative in the true definition of the term: a preference for slow and steady change, caution towards new ideas, and some amount of reverence for tradition.
The issue is that the Republican party is not a Conservative Party. Joe Biden is a Conservative. The Republican party is a party for Reaction and Neoliberalism.
I think the “billions on relief in poor countries while we can’t afford helping Americans at home” bit is a false dichotomy. The money spent on other countries isn’t to help their people, it’s to curry favor with foreign governments and advance American empire.
Really, the people who are stealing our rightful wealth are not poor people in other countries (or “welfare queens” at home) but the rich and powerful who aren’t paying their fair share.
I appreciate your point of view, where you didn’t do the common thing of strawmanning the left, especially on gun rights, in an effort to put yourself “in the middle”.
I believe in all those things you do (for a certain definition of “less government”), as well as gun ownership, but I consider myself a Marxist. There’s something really admirable about “old-school libertarians”.
I think things like Right to Repair and Net Neutrality are the line between Libertarians who are good at heart, and the nut jobs. To an Anarcho-Capitalist, a company has the right to license their products under whatever conditions they want; an ISP can give preferential bandwidth to big companies. But a real Libertarian believes that not even companies and contracts can limit a person’s freedoms.
Marxist-Leninist. I’m a believer in Socialist philosophy and the Marxist Material Dialectic, as explained by Marx, Engles, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
While I am not a believer in Dengism, I believe that the Communist Party of China is ideologically Marxist and has made great strides in building China’s productive forces and improving the lives of the Chinese people.
China is a large country, with many Chinese.
I oppose Western Imperialism and offer critical support to non-Socialist countries that oppose it.
For what it’s worth, I also believe in racial and gender equality and gay/trans rights, but these battles are secondary to the class war.
Literally the first thing I did after getting into Lemmy was blocking all of the 196 communities. Literally brain-rotting