Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

otm

government subsidized insurance should not pay for homeopathic bullshit

society should reintroduce the "moron" and "imbecile" classifications and people classified as such should not be allowed to vote

dang sarahell you are really going ~in~

I will probably enjoy long term capital gains tax if I ever have the opportunity to enjoy it.

Insurance should always be high deductible with the primary goal of preventing a life ruining financial disaster resulting from a mistake.

Concerts should never go past 10pm

A deck of playing cards is better than most new boardgames

Benny was the protagonist in Rent

most opinions should not be arrived at, you aren't that smart and you aren't that tasteful

you shouldn't be able to graduate college without passing a class called Shutting the Fuck Up About Things Most of the Time

*seminar

These are good

i don't actually know any cocaine vegans. in indiana we just have smack conservatives.

concerts should actually start on time.

Qualx otm. In fact one place I'm pretty conservative is how education should be done. You don't get to participate in a seminar-style discussion where you spray your uninformed opinion all over everything without some base level of knowledge. Start by shutting the fuck up, doing the reading, and talk because you have genuine questions about what the text or the professor is saying. Also some level of memorization and understanding of dates is necessary to learning most humanities subjects. And advanced interpretive processes found in critical theory and such are just that, advanced, and you should learn to close read a text in a more formalistic way before you approach any of that stuff.

is epistemic humility really a conservative belief? i guess small-c conservative but i consider it a liberal value - to acknowledge that there is much we don't know or understand is to acknowledge that the status quo may be flawed.

I mean my posts were less about conservatism and more just directed at this thread lol

haha

not to make a statement in general but I have come to really resent that I went to a research university -- not a GOOD one, but one that prides itself very loudly on being 'a research university' -- and I managed an english degree without ever once being asked to actually do any research in an english class.

not against humanities degrees but against the dominance of studying philosophies that don't place value in research and context outside of the context of a dumb 20 year old's dumb brain

research university = the university does resesarch. It has nothing to do necessarily with what undergrads learn.

the Democratic Party would be in biiiiiig trouble if they didnt cater to extreme pro-abortion fanatics

people should pay to go to university, and less people should go to university

The most important skills you can develop are those that will be useful in a doomsday apocalyptic scenario.

how could you possibly know what those would be without knowing the exact nature of the scenario?

xp it might have had to do with the whole 'loud proclamations' thing but the university prided itself on research-centric classes, and you'd hear about it in non-humanities classes anyway (where it wouldn't necessarily be an assumption based on the course)

still, I'd say the same things about humanities in any university

xp mechanics, electric, construction, farming, etc obv we can't predict the future but all seem more valuable than accounting or law

aka skills that are valuable outside the context of society

but what about the accountants and lawyers who aren't lucky enough to see a doomsday in their lifetime? what a waste of effort.

nb that you don't actually need an apocalypse for those skills to be valuable

but they could end up being much less valuable than accounting or law skills if you really do trade off one for the other

i always cringed at chuck d's cameo in that sonic youth song.

a most unKOOL conservative belief.

GMOs are good

there is definitely nothing wrong with eating genetically modified food, billions of servings eaten to date, it's the anti-vax of food to be suspicious of gmos

the technology for making GMOs can be used for good and bad things

I'm generally fine with GMOs and don't think there's any reason to fear them, but I don't agree with the anti-vax analogy at all.

I mean vaccines are a long-used, proven thing with pretty much no purpose other than to benefit humanity and stop disease. GMOs I believe are generally safe, but it's still unclear that they'll be used in any widespread way to do anything other than make agribusiness more profitable.

being able to effectively lead a ragtag band of competent farmers, mechanics, masons and electrical engineers is way more useful than knowing how to do stuff

i always cringed at chuck d's cameo in that sonic youth song.

a most unKOOL conservative belief.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, August 18, 2016

tell it like it is

lol

i think the liberal tendency to harangue someone publicly and relentlessly every time they step outside the bounds of PC speech often just martyrs them rather than shames them and plays into the hands of folks who share even more virulent un-PC beliefs. sometimes (not always) it's probably best to kill them with kindness and prove them wrong that way or something. i don't know if that's a conservative belief or more of a strategic disagreement though.

I'm not unilaterally against public shaming, but I'm hoping that we'll soon see the end of it's period of overuse.

xp mechanics, electric, construction, farming, etc obv we can't predict the future but all seem more valuable than accounting or law

― Mordy, Thursday, August 18, 2016 9:33 AM (2 hours ago)

the underlying concepts of accounting and law are very useful in this scenario though

I believe ideas have consequences

being able to effectively lead a ragtag band of competent farmers, mechanics, masons and electrical engineers is way more useful than knowing how to do stuff

― El Tomboto, Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:29 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

first, pvmic. second, I think you meant 'electricians' there.

I don't really foresee a prolonged period of time in which there is no "society." I think some form of society tends to congeal relatively quickly. I figure I'll probably just die in the initial deluge but if I manage to survive I'll find a way to make myself useful.

most useful skill is to learn to play to conch shell. so they keep you around for the announcement of speeches, meal times, and public executions.

iirc the conch system's the first to go in the breakdown

poor piggy

"I've got the conch"

"Oh yeah, well I've got the saxophone"

*plays hot licks*

*plays baker street*