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There have been previous conservatives that stopped being cunts, disproving your claim by simple counterexample. It's definitely a choice (as much as anything that we do is "chosen"), it's not some inherent property of their being.
I suppose I was being a bit obtuse there. To be clear, I don't believe that conservatives are wholly incapable of change. Just, you know, mostly incapable of it. Some people will surprise you here and there, for sure. In the main, though, they are small-minded, angry, mean-spirited people prone to homophobia, sexism, racism, xenophobia, and classism. Basically, every possible shit thing that a person can be is represented in their outlook on life. It's the kind of outlook that requires you to be a shithead to hold it. Hence, conservatives are cunts.
No one is saying conservatives aren't cunts. All I'm saying is that it's not sufficient explanation for their behavior, people don't just wake up and say "golly, today I really want to be a complete cunt". No, for them, they're the heroes of their stories, the only ones "doing good", yet for everyone else they only come across as cunts. All I'm saying is that an explanation has to include their internal reasoning for why they think they're the hero of their story.
This thread is so boring and unfunny.
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Who are these conservatives that stopped being cunts? You can't be a conservative and not a cunt. It's baked into the ideology.
I'm saying they stopped being conservatives.
Really gotta s p e l l it out for some folks
I'd beg to differ and say a lot more of them are assholes. Many of them are pretty self-aware, they just don't care. You know that song Sweet Dreams?
A lot of conservatives just see struggling people as an opportunity. They think, in order to maintain wealth I need to make life harder on other people. They see black people getting locked up for marijuana possession and think, oh... that person will be on probation and be desperate for a job that I can pay minimum wage and treat them like garbage. They see forcing women to have babies that they can't afford as people in poverty that they can take advantage of. If you think they do what they do cause they are merely stupid, then your more than likely going to end up a victim in their game.