#conservative

anonymiss@despora.de

The conservatives can't #meme :(

Either the state functions more or less despite the #sabotage and #boycott of the U.S. as in #Cuba, or it is kept by the U.S. in a non-stop civil #war because of the mineral resources as in #Venezuela. Sometimes left-wing democratically elected governments are also couped and replaced by dictators, as in Iran and #Chile. If nothing else helps, they start using #FalseFlag operations like #Gladio in #Italy to discredit left-wing parties. Without the ruthless U.S. foreign #policy, the #world would probably have long been a better left-liberal space, where no inhuman capitalists destroy the #environment for #profit.

#fail #omg #wtf #problem #politics #war #terror #earth #capitalism #poverty #government #conservative

bottomboy@diasp.org

False Associations

I've been almost instantly accused of being a right-wing antivaxxer and conspiracy nut just because I take exception to #blocklists. That didn't didn't take long! It's only my third day on #diaspora*!

So just for the record:

I'm gay and a femboy, but I know other femboys who are not gay at all. I'm against #censorship but #pro-vaccine. I got the jab as soon as I became eligible. I'm pasty white but not a racist. My boyfriend is dark-skinned and beautiful. I do follow the science, which is why despite being very #feminine and #gay, I don't believe boys can have periods and give birth, and they can't become girls no matter what they do to their bodies. Girls can't become boys no matter what they do to their bodies. #Science.

Can we dump these false associations and have a little respect for our differences? If we disagree that doesn't mean one of us is "spreading misinformation" or some kind of #extremist. We just disagree and that's okay.

I wasn't even born yet when #9-11 happened, but I think the one lesson we should have learned from that horrible day was that we are all people and we belong to each other and we can learn to respect each other and see value in each other. No more assumptions and silly associations that don't necessarily go together at all.

Okay, my rant is over, thanks for listening.

grin@spora.grin.hu

A well-written #conservative / #right leanig article about how #Hungary's Victor #Orban is not "valuing conservative values", using the apropos of Tucker Carlson (Fox News "paleoconservative" commentator) coming to Hungary and having a happy meeting and country tour in a government-controlled bubble.

It is a rarely-found help for English-speaking conservatives believing Orban is their comerade.

https://www.thebulwark.com/an-open-letter-to-tucker-carlson-from-a-hungarian-conservative/

garryknight@diasp.org

Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country | Private schools | The Guardian

Our elite schools foster emotional austerity and fierce clique loyalty. Here a privately educated writer of the prime minister’s generation reveals the lasting damage public schools do

A longish read about why Prime Minister Boris Johnson and many in his cabinet are psychologically damaged "sad little men", and how they got that way under the public school system. A couple of things for non-Brits to note:
1) "Public school" in the UK actually means "private school". Actual public schools are referred to as "state schools".
2) Boris Johnson's first name is actually Alexander.
3) Yes, it's messed up. Britain is messed up. Our leaders are messed up.

#UK #politics #Tory #Conservative #BorisJohnson #PrimeMinister #psychology #SadLittleMan

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/08/public-schoolboys-boris-johnson-sad-little-boys-richard-beard

arnauddaniel@framasphere.org
arnauddaniel@framasphere.org

#TimLongson
Why do the multi-billionaire mainstream media owners use straight out lies to convince their readers to vote #Tory, or at least NOT vote #Labour?
Very brave & famous actor Greg Wise exposes all: The elite are treated differently than the majority; hundreds of Brits with £BILLIONS hidden away offshore to avoid paying tax, & the #HMRC (tax office) under the Tories is turning a deliberate blind eye to this, even though they KNOW who these people are!
There is enough money owing in tax, just from these super rich people, to more than wipe out ALL our countries debt, & with enough left over to reverse the #austerity cuts. What do the HMRC do under the Tories, if not going after the super rich? They go after the #workingClass common people, like plumbers with dawn raids, imprison mothers who claim too much tax credit by accident, etc. The ONLY political party which has been trying to bring this super rich mans #corruption to light, & close these corrupt tax loopholes, is the #LabourParty; & THATS why "secretly right wing" papers:

  1. "THE SUN" (owned by Rupert Murdoch, personal wealth over $21.5 BILLION),
  2. "THE DAILY MAIL" (owned by Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount of Rothermere, personal wealth well over £1 BILLION),
  3. "THE EXPRESS" (owned by Richard Desmond, personal wealth over £2.6 BILLION) or
  4. "THE TELEGRAPH" (owned by The Barclay Brothers, personal wealth over £8 BILLION)

ALL told their readers ridiculous lies to do ANYTHING to stop them voting for Labour. And their manipulations paid off - despite the Tories only gaining 269K more votes than 2017 (where they lost their majority) with a total of 13.9 million in 2019, the vast majority of voters voted AGAINST the Tories with 17.93 MILLION votes for opposition parties, BUT (& this is where the lies paid off) the right wing media convinced enough people to NOT vote Labour, & hence split the vote to ineffectiveness, that despite getting considerably less than half the votes, the Tories got more than enough seats to form a majority government... The readers of these papers simply got played by the owners of the papers they read, so the owners could keep their Tory government, & keep avoiding paying tax... It's that simple.

Feel free to fact check for yourself, I encourage it - its the provable truth.
#TheSun #TheDailyMail #TheExpress #TheTelegraph #RupertMurdoch #JonathanHarmsworth #RichardDesmond #TheBarclayBrothers #uk #greatbritain #unitedkingdom #Austerity #toriesout #EastMidlands #borisJohnson #conservative #strongandstable #BorisTheCoward #BorisTheLiar #ToryLies #ToriesOut #UKPolitics #RevokeRemainRebuild #Brexit #UK #GB #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #England #Britain #Tories #Tory #ProjectFear #Europe #Europa #EuropeanUnion #NoDealBrexit #NoDealBrexit 🎩 🍾 😴 💤 #StopBrexit #capitalism #corporatocracy #ToryLies #ToriesOut #BrexitChaos #StopTheCoup #LiarLiar #ToryLies #BrexitChaos #BrexitShambles

kamenridercaoimhe@diasp.org

[…]

Celebrities posing #naked while #pregnant began as a fiercely defiant and provocative stunt. #Demi_Moore’s 1991 Vanity Fair cover—an undeniably confident woman fully #nude, cradling her pregnant belly—was #progressive in its mere existence: the overt #sexualization and #celebration of a #bodyImage that the #American public had, generally, been taught not to think of as #sexy.

It was a transgressive moment in its #controversy (in 1991, many more #conservative people were none-too-pleased to see a nude pregnant #woman staring at them from the shelves of the grocery store cashier aisle), but also in how it paved the way for the image to eventually become #uncontroversial almost entirely; to be #normalized.

(Go figure something as #natural as a pregnant woman’s body needs to be normalized. #Humans are awful.)

In the decades since Moore’s cover, the nude pregnant #photo has almost become a rudimentary rite of passage for celebrities, especially those whose careers were built on—and at times #exploited—their sexuality. #Christina_Aguilera, #Jessica_Simpson, #Britney_Spears, #Nia_Long, #Cindy_Crawford, #Claudia_Schiffer, #Mariah_Carey, #Monica_Bellucci: the nude photo shoot evolved from #progressive act of #rebellion to an #essential part of the Pregnant Celebrity Publicity Tour. As essential, even, as the “Check Out My Post-Baby Bod!” photo shoot that would typically follow.

It’s easy—and at this point #lazy and #unoriginal—to #attack any news Kardashian makes as a #shameless ploy for more press. The fact of the matter is that Kardashian has built a #career as an expert #manipulator of a #realityTV genre that’s mandated that #media take its stars #seriously, because the many #fans of these shows already do.

She’s an aficionado of #branding, a polarizing #fashion maven, and, after years in the public eye, a bona fide #cultural #influencer.

As such, Kardashian’s treatment of her #celebrity spotlight has #matured along with our #perception of her #influence. She’s no longer the #girl made famous by the #sexTape, but a #person with a #platform who is given a megaphone to speak about #feminism, #sexism, #sexualizing, and, god help us, real things.

There’s something sort of #admirable about this #evolution.

[…]

Kim Kardashian Posts Bold, Beautiful Naked Pregnant Selfie to Combat Body Shaming

#Kim_Kardashian #socialMedia #bodyShaming #bodyPositivity #iPutTheHeadlineAtTheBottomBecauseRegardlessOfHowEnlightenedWeConsiderOurselvesItGoesWithoutSayingThatIfSomeOfYouSawHerNameAtTheTopYouWouldHaveCompletelyIgnoredThisPost