Lovstuhagen
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- Comment on MSNBC Attacks Trump And Musk For Telling The Truth About Suspicious LA Fires 2 weeks ago:
It is also the case that a lot of underbrush was not routinely removed… This is somewhat understandable when we are talking about forest fires in more remote parts of California.
The big issue is that underbrush in various parts near Los Angeles suburbs and throughout the area had not been dealt with.
The Getty Mansion and museum grounds were fully within the line of the fire that was coming, but they privately maintained their own grounds and insured that the underbrush that works as kindling for these fires was handled, and even have their own means of fighting fires that would start there… And they were completely fine even though many places all around them burnt down.
- Comment on 'The fish rots from the head down': Reform UK leader Nigel Farage calls Britain 'appallingly led' in new year's swipe 4 weeks ago:
I think this is something that a lot of conservatives and liberals could both potentially get behind…
Which is one of the reasons I am on lemmy - I am not a conventional conservative. I belive some things that are fundamentally liberal in nature and no, not in some “Classical liberalism is duh REAAALLLL librulism” way, but in a way that is fiscally progressive…
I think we should work on forging a post-conservative, post-liberal consensus… Not even because we can develop a common vision, but because we can create a new paradigm in which everyone’s itnerests are served and we are not bogged down in the normal left/right divisions.
- Comment on Over half of transgender women in prisons are serving for sex offences (UK) 4 weeks ago:
Because the UK is famous for arresting transgender people, right…?
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- Comment on "Border Czar" Tom Homan unveils new deportation plan 4 weeks ago:
Right, it would make sense to have a restricted form, if by that it was meant that the non-citizens giving birth have to have a proper, legal status like permanent residency or some other form of long-term residency.
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- Comment on U.S. homelessness surged 18 percent to record level, annual report says 4 weeks ago:
The oft-repeated false idea that “the free market” will automatically find the most efficient solutions for everything has been proven wrong again and again, and here is yet another example.
To be completely fair to Reaganites, I think they are not concerned with homelessness being fixed.
- Comment on "Border Czar" Tom Homan unveils new deportation plan 4 weeks ago:
There is nothing wrong with immigrants. They are not ‘bringing in crime’ or ‘abusing social services’. They are responsible for less crime per capita than US citizens and contribute far more to social programs than they take out. Not that either of those would justify their forced removal.
There is nothing wrong with legal immigrants, definitely.
However, illegal immigrants are all 100% guilty of a crime when they enter the country. Of course, it would be rather remarkable if we completely ignored that one crime and it turned out that, on average, they committed less crimes per capita than white Americans, which area good baseline since they are the majority and historic population of the country…
It would be absolutely brilliant if, excluding their illegal status, they committed less crimes than Asian Americans…
But as the legal hispanic popualtion is usually several times more likely than non-Hispanic white Americans to commit crime, it seems doubtful that their illegal counterparts are somehow outperforming them. I am also sure there are statistics which give us some idea of illegal immigrant crime rates, and there’s a reason you are not posting any of those.
- Comment on "Border Czar" Tom Homan unveils new deportation plan 4 weeks ago:
But it’s not actually ethnic cleansing since they are arriving in a place that they have no actual claim on…?
We are not taking a part of their rightfully held land and removing them from it so Anglos can go settle there.
- Comment on "Border Czar" Tom Homan unveils new deportation plan 4 weeks ago:
This kind of reminds me of when anti-deportation activists took (staged?) pictures of wives/children greeting their fathers across the border fence, and someone had pointed out that the policy never actually broke up families…
What broke up families is people deciding for themselves that living in the USA was worth more than living with their father.
I would also point out: they have every right to return when they are 18, which is a hell of a massive right that is completely unearned - most nations do not have any form of birth right citizenship, and I think they are all generally ones in which nobody is particularly eager to obtain their rights of citizenship.
- Comment on NYPD arrests migrant who allegedly set woman on fire on subway train, watched her burn to death 5 weeks ago:
Conservatives talked a lot about the decriminalization of certain types of crime in California - it was a big theme in like 2022-2023 and still comes up. I think we also do tend to have these conversations whenever there is an event like what happened with George Floyd.
But I think it might be less talked about overall because many conservatives do live in places like Utah, Wyoming, etc., where crime isn’t a big issue, and it doesn’t seem like a national issue. When they imagine crime coming to them or getting worse, they think of it in terms of criminals making up a greater proportion of the population and moving into new places, which goes pretty well with a fear of an unsecure border.
- Democratic strategists concede party brand is 'in the toilet' - and that's being 'generous'www.foxnews.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Comment on DNC powerhouse fundraiser announces exit from Democratic Party following attacks: 'It's like leaving a cult' 5 weeks ago:
Where does it say she is transphobic?
- Illegal Alien, Accused of Killing Travis Wolfe, Freed from Jail to Spend Holidays with Familywww.breitbart.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 2 comments
- Comment on Vehicle plows into crowded Christmas market in Germany, killing 2 and injuring dozens 5 weeks ago:
That is interesting. I am actually a teetotaler who regularly rails about the dangers of alcohol - I think that it is worse than marijuana. However, I still somewhat oppose marijuana, though less enthusiastically, and am surprised by the antiquated views that many people have of alcohol being perfectly acceptable as a vice but marijuana not being so.
Weed is better for you than booze, though just like booze, it is bad in excess, though not as bad in as great of excess. If that makes sense.
- Comment on Vehicle plows into crowded Christmas market in Germany, killing 2 and injuring dozens 5 weeks ago:
The younger ones, the ones okay with cannabis, seem like they don’t have as much issues. But it might just be lack of being worn down who knows.
Haha are you saying that psychiatrists escape mental issues by smoking pot?
- Comment on NYPD arrests migrant who allegedly set woman on fire on subway train, watched her burn to death 5 weeks ago:
The conservative position is quite simple: nearly every murder that is done by an illegal is potentially preventable if the borders are properly secured and we are actively deporting illegals when the opportunity presents itself. There would be very few exceptions to this - the very occasional overstayed visa murder, for instance.
Of course we have to put up with the insane levels of crime in the US from local citizens, but illegal immigrant crime is also substantial, and thus it is completely valid to go after it… It’s really a two birds, one stone situation.
- DNC powerhouse fundraiser announces exit from Democratic Party following attacks: 'It's like leaving a cult'www.foxnews.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 4 comments
- Comment on Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minors 1 month ago:
I take every news outlet seriously - even the ones who I think sometimes publish bold faced lies - because they all tell us something.
Even their silence is communicative.
- Comment on Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minors 1 month ago:
Notice, though, this is about minors receiving life altering surgical procedures for a condition that is highly debatable… It can be said to be an attempt to prevent the mutilation of the healthy bodies of minors, and taking a stand to be good stewards of them.
I’d also point out that the very first successful transgender surgery was in 1952, and even the language around transgenderism was not even beginning to be fixed in the 1970s, not even among activists (immortalized in the name of the group ‘STAR’).
Trans people only existed in a very broad, big tent sense of the definition.
Perhaps a few of them were even members of the SA, that was famously purged due to its homosexuality. Nazism did embrace paganism and at different points even hinted at the future practice of polygamy. They even had ‘breeding’ programs. It is not hard to imagine a scenario where they would have been more pagan and receptive to ideas about homosexuality, though I suppose what ultimately prevents this is not Christianity, but the evolutionary view of homosexuality as a sign of social unfitness.
- Comment on Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minors 1 month ago:
A Justice’s highly questionable comparison between interracial marriage and transitioning the genders of minors through permanent medical procedures is worth discussing.
- Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minorswww.foxnews.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 8 comments
- Comment on Appeals court rules Texas has right to build razor wire border wall to deter illegal immigration: 'Huge win' 1 month ago:
What has been helpful to me is to ignore the idea that there even is an “objective” position to be sought.
Nothing is objective.
Read both right wing and left wing sources - that is the best way to stay informed.
- Comment on California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants 1 month ago:
To be completely fair, there are issues with this happening in Australia. It has become something of a joke to look at the recipients of aboriginal scholarships or even seats at Universities designated for aboriginal scholars and you wind up seeing visibly white people. This is to not doubt the veracity of their claims or even to necessarily “demote” them as aboriginals, but it becomes potentially harmful to the aboriginals themselves who consistently see visibly white, minimally aboriginal people beating them out for these rewards or obtaining them because there’s so little competition.
It would be like making a list of the top 10 Latino scholars in Latin studies and 9 out of 10 of them are light-skinned castizos… Particularly for people from places like Mexico, where discrimination based on coloring thrives, it is unhelpful…
So, I am not saying that the people who remove them are absolutely right… In some cases they are denying people where such a problem may not exist, but I understand some degree of vigilance and gatekeeping.
- Comment on The Tulsi Gabbard Smears Are Unfounded, Unfair, and Unhelpful 1 month ago:
The Russia & Syria smears are being brought up all the time.
The Russia one was particularly insane since criticizing NATO wars abroad and standing up for resolving conflicts through diplomacy has traditionally been the bread & butter of the anti-war left, right, but the origins of these criticisms and chief encouragers of this often are the alleged anti-war left.
We are actually seeing something of a flip occur, right, with conservatives increasingly becoming a voice for peace and de-escalation in the world.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 7 months ago:
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 7 months ago:
This is one of the silliest quotes because we know that the ancient pagans often viewed one another’s gods as correspondent - “Thor is their Zeus,” etc.
And then you have the problem of henotheism where there is potentially a single god with many avatars and a pantheon of lesser spiritual beings… And you start to realize, "Wait, if the Vasihnavites, Shiavites, etc. are really just saying that there is a an arch deity over everything with many avatars in the form of lesser gods that he wears the masks of, plus lesser deities that can’t defy him and act as angels and demons…
"… What is a God, really? Aren’t they nearly monotheists…?"
What is a God.
Plus there’s the very classic position of the Jews and the Chrsitians - the gods of gentiles are demons.
Christianity does not become a religion that denies other gods, but one that claims other gods are misidentified.
Throw in some liberalism and yuo can even have Christians arguing that the worship directed as Vishnu by devoted Hindus who lead ethical lives and strive to be great manifestations of goodness & virtue for the sake of God’s love is not the worship of demons, at all, but rather, an attempt to reach our God through their own traditions that may even be guided in some form by the Holy Spirit…
So, IDK, IDK to what extent anyone is denying other people’s gods and its relevance to religion today.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 7 months ago:
The very earliest stuff obviously doesn’t have that, and we rely on church history because it wasn’t like even the most interesting thing a Roman governor did that week to kill some random churchmen who created conflict among Jews, nor do we have much preserved about mobs killing these guys other than in the original Christian communal sources.
But really, if you start from the premise that everything Christians ever write about thesmelves is pure propaganda without an iota of truth in it, that creates a non-serious standard with which to evaluate things.
Is it really absurd to think that Protomartyr Stephen was killed by a mob of Jews for preaching a radically different religion to them in a time of great political upheaval? Isn’t this exactly what we think of Christians at later times - that they’d just turn on a guy and kill him for being a heretic? Why is it so unbelievable that it once happened to a Christian? Why is it so troublesome that the only people who bothered to write about these martyrs and preserve their memory were the people who were victims in the course of this?
Obviously, you can say that it’s propaganda and lies, and maybe some of it was. But we know it’s absolutely historic that Christians wre officially persecuted later on. it is also par for the course that they would be less formally persecuted prior to that. it also amkes sense that Christians, like every other group, try to preserve a communal memory.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 7 months ago:
Almost all of the Christian folklore surrounding Jesus can be directly tied to other myths that were common knowledge to Mediterranean people at the time.
Yeah I got the Mithra chainmail in my AOL account back in 1998 - I know the arguments.
But Christianity presents us with something very wild - it takes the Messianic tradition of Jews which was hitherto interpreted as being about creating an earthly Kingdom that conquers the world and incorporates the gentiles into Israel (or makes the gentiles servants of Israel, who all become noblemen living in a heaven on earth, some interpretations)… and Christ says
“Yeah, but no - the Kingdom is purely spiritual. It’s not temporal. The gentiles join us by worshiping God with us and living these truths - look, this Roman occupier has more faith than all Israel, because you guys are just terrible. You bicker over the law, and miss the total point of the law…”
And the Messiah is now about conquering the world through spreading the Gospel of loving God, and loving your neighbor as yourself, giving up your possessions and conquering greed, freeing yourself from hypocrisy; living in simplicity and supreme virtue, at peace with those around you, practicing non-violence, and now we don’t even need any kind of ceremonial laws at all because we are living the virtues. And that’s how the world becomes part of Israel - by adopting the great things abotu our religion - and that’s also how you get to heaven, which is only achievable after death when I come again…
This is a very unique interpretation of the Judaism of the time - absolutely revolutionary.
Even if you want to say that all the miracles and ‘signs’ are a myth, I think that the “Mithra” angle is actually bad beacuse you could just say they came up with those signs and added them so as to be able to claim they are fulfilling the Old Testament, which was infinitely more relevant to the Jews who were the community that gave birth to the religion.
Keep the faith, by all means. But part of believing is accepting that you don’t get to have proof.
Yeah I agree - there is no proof, and if there was proof, it would ruin it, because we’d no longer be doing good and loving God and our neighbor because it is right, but we would be doing it with the expectation of receiving heaven…
We would no longer be living a spiritual life for the good of oruselves and others - in hope & faith - but we would be Capitalists engaging in transactions that we deemed profitable.
