[–] 2 points 1 day ago

Let the conservatives start the war first as they are wont to do, geezus. There was a time when calling for genocide was frowned upon.

Most of the conservatives I know are not inherently hateful or evil (some of them are), they just live in alternate universe of information. The United States effectively insulates its citizens from the consequences of the government's actions the vast majority of the time, while keeping existence in the country so competitive and cutthroat that people don't have energy to look around beyond the information/ media really available to them. So they fundamentally don't understand the macro effects of the policies their pastors and community tell them to support, neither in their own lives nor abroad.

Honestly, that has been the brilliance of Iran in this circumstance. And as an environmentalist, I'm glad for how painful the gas prices have been for everyone, and I hope it continues. It cuts through all the ideology and puts their noses in their shit piles so that they have to see it.

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