Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!

The real reason is that conservative ideology dictates that society will have winners and losers who end up in the correct spot in the heirarchy if society doesn’t interfere with the natural sorting.

So it follows that homeless people don’t deserve a “handout” or a leg-up just because they squandered their opportunities.

Leftists think that an ideology follows from a moral interrogation of the world as it should be, whereas reactionaries think the highest good is done by ensuring that people are in their correct spot in the heirarchy in relation to others; since some people are inevitably going to be homeless, there isn’t much to be done about it and the leftists complaining about it are just virtue signaling to get votes.

Their justification is irrelevant once you realize the actual ideological reasoning.

Edit: I’m confused by the downvotes. Anyone want to tell me how I’m wrong? This isn’t my ideology, but I think it’s useful to understand your opposition on more than a cartoon-villain level, especially since they are so effective at selling their ideas to low-information voters.

I’ve been promoted and the company still had to post the job publicly for a couple weeks to satisfy internal protocol. It’s insanity.

Michael Flynn is an excellent counterexample though.

Ok, maybe if you’re dying you can get the healthcare treatment that you need.

If you can find a doctor/hospital who will open themselves up to litigation and if you can get there. But you’d better be on the cusp of death!

Are we not merciful?!?

Thanks for the feedback!

I did select a language, and I do use a VPN.

I was not aware that a VPN would interfere with lemmy.world, as it works fine with other instances.

Is there a way to use a VPN with this instance? I live in a place where the local government has taken an interest in people’s web traffic, so I don’t want to go without it.

Let’s go full Thunderdome and institute bust a deal, face the wheel too.

Ummm, you think an atheist memes community would think that humans aren’t responsible for creating and using RoundUp?

You’re a smart one.

In a word: Conservativism.

[…] we can also trace a longer structural change in the imagination of the right: namely, the gradual acceptance of the entrance of the masses onto the political stage. From Hobbes to the slaveholders to the neoconservatives, the right has grown increasingly aware that any successful defense of the old regime must incorporate the lower orders in some capacity other than as underlings or starstruck fans. The masses must either be able to locate themselves symbolically in the ruling class or be provided with real opportunities to become faux aristocrats in the family, the factory, and the field. The former path makes for an upside-down populism, in which the lowest of the low see themselves projected in the highest of the high; the latter makes for a democratic feudalism, in which the husband or supervisor or white man plays the part of a lord.

-The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, by Corey Robin

I’m fine with him being on the $500 bill if it’s a pic of his stroked out corpse holding the berder that finally got his cholesterol high enough.

You’re a satirical genius! Can I have your autograph? I’ve never seen such a good impression of a rabid Muskrat before.

I’d love to see your material on sovereign citizens next; their delusions are even more fun IMO.

Lol! I love when reactionaries assume everyone else hates freedom as much as they do.

You’re adorable.

Cry harder.

Cry harder.

You’re the saltiest reactionary since sodium and chlorine were first added to water.

Cry harder.

The modlogs are public, it’s not a secret what you are: a reactionary who is scared of progress; afraid of losing control of the people you deem to be beneath you.

Boo fuckin’ hoo.

It does represent racist slavery and segregation.

Some black folks are trying to repurpose it, and I think that’s doomed to failure.

A tiny number of exceptions don’t change the fact that it has been a symbol of white supremacy since it’s inception, and I’m pretty sure you understand that based on your racist and homophobic comments.

The modern world is pushing the bigots out, and it terrifies you.

Good.

I feel like you think you’ve made a point, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what it is.

Trolls just aren’t what they used to be these days.

Collard greens are the best greens!

I like this recipe, but I use bacon instead of turkey (though I’m sure a turkey leg would be fantastic too).

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.

• Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States of America

This is the “heritage” that they value.