Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

When you live with addicts or love them it’s really hard not to be furious with them though.

oh yeah i know that haha.

from an economic perspective it seems kind of neoliberal, in that it's got these implicit assumptions about the inherent dignity of wage labour

when people say stuff like that, what kind of labour are they thinking of, as like the alternative to wage labour?

UBI, presumably

feudal labour? slave labour?

not defending this thought just guessing

professional labour or domestic labour also not considered in the same way

wiki has something on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_labour

In modern mixed economies such as those of the OECD countries, it is currently the most common form of work arrangement. Although most labour is organised as per this structure, the wage work arrangements of CEOs, professional employees, and professional contract workers are sometimes conflated with class assignments, so that "wage labour" is considered to apply only to unskilled, semi-skilled or manual labour. Various studies have shown that employees generally spend 1.5 to 3 hours a day on non-work related activities.[3]

i don't think the idea of the dignity of (wage) labour is a distinctive feature of neoliberalism at all tho

is it the money that's icky? like, would labour exchange be ok in a pure barter economy, where i could tug you off for a loaf of bread or whatever? or is it the presence of a boss and the power dynamic implied? so independent sex workers selling labour is ok but not ones who work for someone else who deals them a cut

hand-job is at least two loaves of bread iirc

what kind of bread are we talking about

pimpernickel

Pumpernickel would have worked just fine.

See flopson’s post

I did. PUMPpernickel har har...

You get points

Pump vs pimp is a thinker

you hardly knew 'er!

(Real talk: I almost posted "cumpernickel" but stopped myself. Unnecessarily, as it turns out. Y'all went there.)

Spunkernipple

LADS

I very often don't reveal my conservative beliefs here mainly because they're p cool imo

-teens are bad
-justin trudeau is pretty good

I would say both are good, but bad

ie overall their usefulness to our worldview is positive despite the occasional and high profile drawbacks

trudeau should visit that japanese suicide forest wearing ritual seppuku attire next

-teens are bad

disagree!

the kids are alright

I also disagree

teens are, in fact, the worst

but they keep being just a little better than the last set of teens, and/or that is an important story we have to tell ourselves to imagine any hope for our species

I thought "Trudeau is good" was just a liberal as opposed to left view, not a conservative view.

Two sides of the same coin (a loony)

bc liberal party (i think flopson is referring to bc libs specifically) have quite a few former conservatives, so they're a coalition of sorts

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/b-c-liberals-hire-12-ousted-federal-and-alberta-conservatives-which-could-give-province-a-harper-tone

they're technically centre -- to the right of ndp and left of conservatives

lib is the new conservative

lib is the new conservative

― flopson, Sunday, February 25, 2018 10:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's true!

https://cdni.rt.com/files/2018.02/article/5a8ed9e0dda4c8045a8b457b.jpg

love that image, going to sending it to friends for the next 6 months at least

well you and the rest of the world according to ctv last night

Is he up for reelection at some point? Because if he were an American candidate, he'd lose the next election based on that picture alone.

Unrelated, I've started to develop some conservative-ish views of the effects of the sexual revolution. Basically I think birth control and delayed (or deliberately avoided altogether) reproduction has contributed to society becoming more sexualized and more obsessed with sex, porn, kink, etc. I think our bodies/hormones are still telling us to impregnate and to be impregnated and the fact that it's not happening as much as it "should" is confusing us and causing stronger sexual impulses to kick in. I guess what makes me not a true conservative on this is that it's just a theory for me and not something I think we should enact any changes based on. Overall I think the positives of the sexual revolution vastly outweigh this.

oct 2019

he was already very unpopular before this incident

but he is likely going to win

i am wasteful with paper towels. i often use them instead of cloth napkins and rags. i think maybe it doesn't matter.

(i know it matters overall, not everyone should be wasteful with paper towels, but does it matter if i, me, individually use them maaaan?

I despise select a size and will select more than one sheet even when one will suffice.

I will admit I'm a bad green liberal but not because I believe it's ok, but because it's just a failing of mine

yeah individual-consumption scolding is a bad joke at this stage, and always was a kind of trick

(as sanpaku was posting yesterday tho it'll be a realer thing later)

As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional "unconscious identity" with natural phenomena. These have slowly lost their symbolic implications. Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree is the life principle of a man, no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to a man from stones, plants, and animals, nor does he speak to them believing they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

I sort of believe that, but I think our sense of isolation grows more out of capitalist alienation than out of science per se.

would argue the two go hand in hand

There's this thing called communism