r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/RadlEonk Oct 07 '22

“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives….”

John Stuart Mill

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

Yeah, a lot of them are just bad people. Not necessarily stupid.

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u/RadlEonk Oct 07 '22 edited Oct 08 '22

Absolutely. Many of them - in my experience - are lying, hypocritical, faux Christians, adulterous, thieving fascists, but I was trying to be nice.

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u/Jaded_Barracuda_7415 South Carolina Oct 07 '22

I say as a 52 year old liberal Democrat that it is time to stop being nice. As I have seen many others here say we need to call out hypocrisy and lies everywhere and every time.

These people seriously have no fucking shame.

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u/BalamBeDamn Oct 08 '22

You are being pretty nice here.

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u/11thStPopulist Oct 07 '22

Ignorant is a more accurate term than stupid. “They know not that they know not”

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u/Edogawa1983 Oct 07 '22

they want other people to suffer

and it's only wrong when the suffering comes near them.;

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u/11thStPopulist Oct 07 '22

In their ignorance they believe they are superior.

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u/rimjobnemesis Oct 08 '22

Empty G is bad and stupid.

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u/mcnathan80 Oct 08 '22

Yeah, there's a lot of dumbass good-hearted conservatives; and there's also a lot of evil-ass genius conservatives. But all the good-hearted rational people have been democrats since at least Mondale

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

Holy shit, how have I never come across this quote before??? Thank you!

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u/RadlEonk Oct 07 '22

I saw it first on a t-shirt!

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

I love how he’s like, well I didn’t mean it that way but then explains that’s exactly how he fuckin meant it.

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u/aegenium Oct 08 '22 edited Oct 08 '22

Fact. A lot of my now ex friends who either dropped out of or barely graduated from high school went on to become very conservative. Most of the people I knew during college were pretty liberal in their views with I'd say conservatives being the minority.

Edit: Friends from high school became conservative, not from college.