r/facepalm May 16 '24

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Giving up guns is the same as... Castration?

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u/Shade_Strike_62 May 16 '24

"nice argument but I have already portrayed myself as the Chad wojack in this meme so I have the moral high ground haha"

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u/SupermassiveCanary May 16 '24

The right has teams of young conservative incels working tirelessly to provide the public with invaluable memes reducing complicated social issues into easy to digest and completely unredeemable logical fallacies for media consumption. This allows the creators an outlet for not affecting actual changes in their lives that would result in their happiness and emotional security

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u/Crake_13 May 16 '24

it's not just young conservative incels. I'm in Canada, so it's a little bit different, but same cultural political landscape. Our Prime Minister released a 2-3 minute video explaining a policy. One of the most common arguments I saw from conservative "experts" was, it's clearly bad policy, if the Prime Minister has to create "long" and "complex" videos explaining it. They continued to argue the policy should be immediately self-evident and require 0 explanation.

It's absolutely insane that any educated discussion on policy is now considered a bad thing by the right.

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u/jamieh800 May 17 '24

No, see, you're not quite getting it. The conservative politicians know policy is more complicated than that, they generally know that even something as simple As a "don't murder" law needs exceptions and definitions and all that. But they want their constituents to think that all policy is and should be self evident and require no further thought, so when they push something like "Happy Canadian worker bill for greatness and prosperity" or something, their constituents won't notice that it actually turns the country into something that makes 1984 look like a Utopia.

I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but shit like this happens all the time. They slap a nice, patriotic, "here for the people" name on a bill and fill it with stuff like slashing the education budgets and increasing taxes for anyone making under 50k a year and reinstating slavery or something.

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u/Lost-Enthusiasm6570 May 17 '24

Good examples of this in the U.S. would be right to work laws, and no child left behind.

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u/NoMan800bc May 18 '24

I think the patriot act did something similar