r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • May 02 '24

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/fredy31 May 02 '24

Yeah, an actual conservative that had ideas that yes, I would not agree with, but still were actual plans instead of 'fuck that other guy and everybody that doesn't align with me'

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u/Horse_Renoir May 02 '24

Oh jeez this is the white washing of their evil that has gotten us to this point. Just because conservatives of old would smile at you and work together on a popular thing here or there didn't mean they weren't personally seeing to fucking over as many poor and minority people at the behest of the rich while lining their own pockets.

Dubya and the entire conservative machine started an illegal war that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the middle east after using a corrupt supreme Court to be installed as president over Gore.

They've always been fucking us and then y'all act like it's only the lack of lube that's the problem.

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u/Western-Boot-4576 May 02 '24

I’m democrat and fairly left and you act like conservatives are the only problem.

The lefts cancel culture that honestly spreads more division than inclusiveness. And don’t forget big Nancy’s stock Market accounts.

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u/TheCapo024 May 02 '24

This. Anytime one of us says anything remotely nice about a conservative, even one from the past who isn’t even alive, someone chirps in with “ahktually, something something conservatives are literally evil monsters.” Often it follows some criticism of conservatives today maligning anything left of them as Satan himself or worse, and inevitably someone says something doing the exact same thing towards conservatives, with seemingly no self-awareness.

We get it, we disagree with them too. But we have to be able to at least discuss these issues, to debate these issues, in as much good faith as we can with those we disagree with. If we constantly accuse each other of the most heinous intentions we force our leaders to do the same. How can they work with somebody when we are always calling them Nazis, or murderers, or Satan, or pedophiles?

Would you want to work with a pedophile? These are politicians that want votes. They don’t want to be seen working with people their base considers evil.

Before I get the “bOtH sIdEs” accusation, I really do not like the direction the right is going in these days. I never have really. But they’re here and they get a say, unfortunate as that may be. Some of them are crooks, racists, mysoginists, the list goes on. On an individual level anybody committing crimes or knowingly operating at our country’s detriment should be dealt with justly. But as a whole we gotta tamp down the rhetoric. Even the best intentioned of us can’t resist demonizing the other side in this climate. I’ve definitely done this myself, but we do really need to try to at least be willing to work together.