Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... Given Iran is clearly under attack from US/Israeli forces, defending its airspace is not so much an escalation as a perfectly reasonable defensive response (and certainly legal as far as international law is concerned).
But the narrative remains, whatever the media may think its doing, one that privileges the US's positioning on the 'war'!
@ChrisMayLA6 It’s the same as Russia/Ukraine & Israel/Palestine: ”How dare they defend themselves?!”
Authoritarian conservatism has become the dominant narrative of our time.
@ohir @gimulnautti @ChrisMayLA6
Trump has the rock solid support of conservatives in America.
This is not a coincidence.
@eestileib @gimulnautti @ChrisMayLA6
> support of conservatives
Reactionary "conservatives" support he has. He got to the power with broader conservatives support, yes, but the cabal behind the aimed at conservatives propaganda is neither conservative nor christian – at least for someone who remembers and knows the real definienda of either.
That said, for me and hopefully many others, the core of the contemporary _conservatism_ is not about calcification of the status quo but the careful consideration of changes that _must_ come. On that fundament, maga and trumpists hardly can fit even in the "reactionary" echelon – they are revolutionists. In practice, US conservatives were all conned by fasicst with their well researched firehose use of perverted words.
@ohir @gimulnautti @ChrisMayLA6
So you're in favor of criminalizing queerness? Racial segregation? Preservation of colonial status for places like Timor-Leste? State religion?
What traditional conservative policies do you support?
@eestileib @gimulnautti @ChrisMayLA6
> difference ... actual and historical reality of conservatism as an ideology?
How did you come to that conclusion I do not differentiate?
Because I pointed out that the meaning of the word had been distorted and perverted? I even stressed the discrepancy between the definition and the deeds of people calling themselves "conservatist".
How can we have a _political_ discourse if to the one side of the aisle the "conservatist" _word_ sounds exactly like to the other side "leftist" does?
We need to bring the "politics", politei, a civic matter back to the rails of some common understanding. And so for other perverted words. Call fascist fascist and aim at conservatives to let them see fascism as something that is against their stated values.
> So you're in favor of criminalizing queerness
P.S. I know in the UK "unnatural acts" were criminalized 1533-2011. But actually neither UK, nor US make for a whole world :) But here, PL Commonwealth, no "queerness" have ever been criminalized by secular laws as long as democracy was strong. Um, not even during the 1697-1775 decline.
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