Current Events > Don't see too many rightwingers defending their candidates on CE these days

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Or their policies. Or their opinions. Or their actions.

Wonder why that is.

Used to have a lot more of them around. Even this time a year ago there were topics about how unfair it was that Mar a Lago got raided by the FBI

Vicious Dios is certainly one of them.

They're on the politics board.

Yeah it doesnt make sense, this board and website are so receptive to right wing discourse so I dont know why theyre so quiet.

Actual right-wing posters tend to get banned here.

BurmesePenguin posted...

They're on the politics board.

Is this a joke I'm not getting? The politics board was deleted.

Most of them got banned, and can't so easily come back on an alt due to the karma gate.

However,

SayHeyyShohei posted...

Vicious Dios is certainly one of them.

SayHeyyShohei posted...

Vicious Dios is certainly one of them.

true

They have no policies that I'm aware of. Hate isn't a policy, no matter how much they want to pretend it's one.

There's some kind of special election going on in Oklahoma right now (I'm in Texas, but live close enough to the border to get a lot of their ads) and the governor's running an ad on behalf of this dude he wants to win, and it all boils down to HE'S A CONSERVATIVE AND HE HATES LGBTQ.

Well, they framed it as "he will protect YOUR kids from the radical LGBTQ agenda!!" like they always do. But there's nothing in there about what he will do for anyone... nothing about education, infrastructure, the rising cost of living, etc. Just this stuff they like to use as a distraction.

Turns out when you turn into a far right radical who does things like supports bigotry and violent insurrections, you tend to get in trouble.

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Also racism, transphobia, bigotry and vaccine misinformation which all seem to overlap suspiciously often with "conservative opinions."

ZMythos posted...

Or their policies. Or their opinions. Or their actions.

Wonder why that is.

Used to have a lot more of them around. Even this time a year ago there were topics about how unfair it was that Mar a Lago got raided by the FBI

Because you get modded.

And Im not referring to hate filled racist crap. That has no place anywhere and should be modded. Its more normal stuff that you cant even post about.

Covid possibly coming from a lab? Nope. Judging Anheuser Buschs business decision? Nope.

Just not worth engaging at all.

mercurydude posted...

But there's nothing in there about what he will do for anyone... nothing about education, infrastructure, the rising cost of living, etc. Just this stuff they like to use as a distraction.

That is precisely because the GOP is no longer interested in governing, nor in Democracy in general.

Within the GOP, both "postliberalism" of Patrick Deen is being pushed as well as "Neoreactionaries" from conservative techbros like Peter Thiel.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/08/the-new-right-patrick-deneen-00100279

At the root of Deen's thinking is forcing Catholicism on everyone.

On social questions, it is explicitly reactionary, opposing progressive ideas about race, gender, and sexuality and supporting policies to promote heterosexual family formation. For instance, Deneen opposes gay marriage, denounces critical race theory as an effort to divide the working classes, and generally supports policy to make it more difficult for married couples to get divorced.

Patrick Deen calls for "Regime Change"

Deneen argues that this version of conservatism will eventually come to replace liberalism as Americas governing philosophy through a process that he calls regime change. But as is often the case with Deneen, he is frustratingly coy about what regime change actually entails or how it will unfold. In his latest book, he argues that regime change will require the peaceful but vigorous overthrow of a corrupt and corrupting liberal ruling class, making way for a new, postliberal order in which existing political forms remain the same but are informed by a fundamentally different ethos. This new regime will be superficially the same as the current political order, but it will be led by a new class of conservative elites who share the values of non-elites and govern in their interests.

Switching gears to Neoreactionaries.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

It is basically going back to a monarchy, but with techbro's as kings.

Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But theres a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution.

Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries, democracy has actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy

So that is why the GOP no longer talks about their policies during a campaign.

whitelytning posted...

Because you get modded.

And Im not referring to hate filled racist crap. That has no place anywhere and should be modded. Its more normal stuff that you cant even post about.

Covid possibly coming from a lab? Nope. Judging Anheuser Buschs business decision? Nope.

Just not worth engaging at all.

This isn't true.

whitelytning posted...

Judging Anheuser Buschs business decision? Nope.

This is certainly a spin

They stick to the Politics board