Throwaway@lemm.ee to Conservative@lemm.ee · 11 months agoIn reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schoolsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1-1arrow-down1external-linkIn reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schoolsapnews.comThrowaway@lemm.ee to Conservative@lemm.ee · 11 months agomessage-square11linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·11 months agoWhat is Conservative about honoring traitors to the country?
minus-squareThrowaway@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·edit-211 months agoYou meant to say slavers, right? The founding fathers were traitors to the crown, its not strictly a bad thing
minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoThey were traitors. Do you think fighting against your country for the right to own slaves is more conservative than being a traitor for other reasons?
minus-squareThrowaway@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoThe slavery is the bad bit here.
minus-squareBobaFuttbucker@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoThe difference is they’re not going to literal war over it and it’s not because of slavery.
minus-squareBobaFuttbucker@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoDemocrats then = Republicans now. We’re a democracy because we’re a democracy lol, not because one political faction insists on it and another refuses to agree. “No WeRe A cOnStITuTiOnAl RePuBlIC!!1!” Yeah, our representatives are elected………with a democratic process. The specific term is “Representative Democracy”.
What is Conservative about honoring traitors to the country?
You meant to say slavers, right? The founding fathers were traitors to the crown, its not strictly a bad thing
They were traitors. Do you think fighting against your country for the right to own slaves is more conservative than being a traitor for other reasons?
The slavery is the bad bit here.
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The difference is they’re not going to literal war over it and it’s not because of slavery.
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Democrats then = Republicans now.
We’re a democracy because we’re a democracy lol, not because one political faction insists on it and another refuses to agree.
“No WeRe A cOnStITuTiOnAl RePuBlIC!!1!”
Yeah, our representatives are elected………with a democratic process.
The specific term is “Representative Democracy”.