#conservatism — Public Fediverse posts
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#Christian #Conservatism s attempt to Immanentize the eschaton is societal suicide in an attempt to draw out God. #Oligarchs have embraced it as the final solution to the #war between #labor and #capital. The #Epstein class has convinced itself that the #proletariat is no longer needed in an age of robot farming and #AI #datacenters replacing #labor. No more pesky #Praetorean guard problem thanks to drones. The Egoists are trying for their coup.
What did we do to be cursed with living in interesting times.
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DOJ Says Law-Abiding Americans Can Carry Guns in Public Post Offices
#conservatism #freedom #law #pragmatism #technology #weaponryThe United States Department of Justice has released a formal Office of Legal Counsel memorandum opinion clarifying that law-abiding Americans may carry constitutionally protected firearms into publicly accessible post offices for self-defense without violating federal criminal law. The opinion, dated August 12, 2026, and authored by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lanora C. Pettit, interprets 18 U.S.C. § 930(a), the longstanding prohibition on possessing firearms or other dangerous weapons in federal facilities, as not reaching ordinary self-defense carry in post offices open to the public.
Section 930(a) makes it a federal crime to knowingly possess a firearm in a federal facility, defined as a building or portion thereof owned or leased by the federal government where federal employees regularly perform official duties. Post offices clearly qualify under this definition. However, subsection (d)(3) creates an explicit exception for the “lawful carrying of firearms or other dangerous weapons in a Federal facility incident to hunting or other lawful purposes.”
The OLC concludes that self-defense constitutes a paradigmatic “lawful purpose.” Critically, the opinion holds that no special nexus is required between the reason a person enters the post office and the reason for carrying the firearm. Simply entering a public post office while lawfully armed for self-defense falls within the statutory exception.
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The revival of a distinctly Canadian (“progressive”) take on conservatism, in Alberta, the birthplace of Canadian fascism with a conservative face? I am watching, with great interest.
#canada #canpoli #conservatism #abpoli
@canada 🇨🇦 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/progressive-tory-party-candidate-alberta-9.7305349?cmp=rss
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0n8nd6645o
I started reading this article on the conservatism of Kingsport TN and felt depressed and disgusted. I'm sure that many here on Mastodon will share my repugnance.
Do read on to the end of the piece though, and you will not despair of Kingsport and the USA.
#USPolitics #MAGA #Kingsport #Conservatism #DonaldTrump #Tennessee
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I would like to introduce a comprehensive defense of #American #Conservatism:
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Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
Critical thinking has left the building. Is everyone in the U.S. going mad? It seems to me, judging by this whole hysteria anti-AI and pro-AI. I'm just tired of it. Just use the tools that you think work best for you but just don't be judgemental. Human output is also full of slop. Just because it was created by a human being, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be reviewed in the sense of improving it. The exact same thing is valid for any AI output!! Just don't use lame excuses to justify a reactionary and conservative position towards technology. Being anti-AI is not progressive nor emancipatory if you just avoid all the time getting your feet wet by using the tools and experimenting a lot. It just shows you lack the exact same critical thinking you accuse pro-AI people of lacking.
"Having heard an increasing number of anecdotal stories over the last year or so of people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives, tales I've seen told in fragments across social media and platforms like Linkedin, I decided to speak directly with as many workers as I could to hear their stories in full.
What I found particularly interesting was that while some employees are able to duck out from using the technology altogether, a surprising number of people without that luxury are still finding ways to minimise, misdirect or even sabotage their company's AI mandates by using the technology against itself.
Given everyone I spoke to was still employed at the place they're talking about, they've requested their names and employers be withheld. And while (since this is a video games website) there are some video game industry workers featured below, I also ended up speaking with many affected employees across a range of other industries, from utilities to finance to cloud hosting."
https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Automation #Productivity #Neoluddites #ReactionaryThought #Conservatism #Neoluddism
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https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/07/the-closing-of-the-anglophile-mind-0
Fascinating essay provides insight into the relation between US and British conservatism.
Mention of a discussion between William Buckley and Huey Newton reminds us of a media landscape that now seems very far away.
Buckley's 1976 thriller "Saving the Queen" sounds like a blend of the wince-making and the unintentionally comic. I can't be bothered to read the book, but I would like to track down the Sunday Telegraph review that noted the the novel's reference to the "Home Minister" and "Chelsea Station".
#Conservatism #WilliamBuckley #USPolitics #UKPolitics #UKUSRelations #BritishAmericanRelations
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#Glendale began rooted in #conservatism, eventually becoming a #sundowntown. This extended to #ForestLawn promoting “Christian optimism" and #GeorgeRockwell trying to establish a HQ for the American Nazi Party in the city. Today, it's politically liberal and overall diverse. #americana #wa #travel #ca #youtube #funfacts
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Real Story Behind State Department Cuba Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFujpXonOg
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If you describe yourself as a #conservative I'm just gonna assume you are exactly this:
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Polish non-European migration graphed
If you want to remain Poland, you have to accept a period of lower population. Capitalist forces want more bodies because that makes more money for them. Socialist/communist forces want more disruptions because that makes it easier for them to seize power and to rule. Sadly, lower populations actually make ordinary citizens richer because there is more of everything for everyone. A real government really representing its real constituents would be delighted to see the population decline and government shrink. ABN
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So why do conservatives and facist like Star Trek, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and else? It's weird, but there is an explanation.
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Big Government vs small farmer
This kind of problem is fixable. The more people aware of food quality and the importance of small farms, the better. We go out of our way to buy good food from quality local farmers. ABN
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In trying to undersand why the world is going to shit, we have discovered why the upper echelons of corporate management (and large institutional investors) are all in on #LLM-based #GenAISlop applications (#Enshitification personified). They’ve all succumbed to #AIPsychosis, assuredly a neurological condition with built-in #Denialism, with the only known cure being #Insolvency followed by #StockMarketCrash and global #EconomicCollapse.
In parallel, the question that is really bugging me is: why do #RightWing nut jobs keep banging their heads against a wall? Do they suffer from a similar type of neurological impairment? I originally thought they were all motivated to behave like they do because of particular unresolved character flaws that I conflatingly call ‘victimhood’. A self flagellation of the soul. A longing to be confirmed martyrs and pitied as such while raging at the world as the cause of their affliction — the circulatity is staggering. A condition recently appearing to be of epidemic proportion.
An article in #NewPolitics (Eddy Jokovich) has another explanation from the political perspective: A craving for limelight and a fundamental propensity to be lazy;
“…rather than developing policies for Australia’s actual economic, social and environmental challenges, the Australian right wants to import a prefab Trump–Farage–CPAC culture war that has never borne any electoral fruit in the past. So why do they keep doing it? Because it’s cheaper than developing the serious policy work, it’s far more angry than decent democratic debate, and it’s a lot easier than governing competently.” (NOTE: I have reservations about the claim of electoral ineffectiveness)
Read more:
https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/hansons-white-privilege-tour-sponsored
I prefer to think the old saying has it right: that making the same mistake over and over again without changing/learning anything is a positive maker for utter insanity.
#AusPol #RWNJs #PHON #Nationals #Libs #PoliticalRage #Mirroring #CPAC #WhiteAustralia #Misogyny #Manosphere #NeoLiberalism #Politics #ConArtists #Grifters #TaxTheRich #Antifa #Conservatism
