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submitted 10 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/196

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[-] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago

There's 2 types of right wingers, dumb ones and disingenuous ones.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 months ago

Scared, stupid and selfish. The 3S framework of conservatism. You don't have to be all 3 to be conservative, but you're at least one.

[-] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Nice, I'd say the first two of those terms apply mostly to the dumb ones.

The disingenuous ones take advantage of the stupidity of the others to induce fear to facilitate manipulation.

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Isn't the third type democrats?

[-] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

No, most non-progressive dems would qualify as being disingenuous. The progressive ones that still call themselves dems aren't right wing, they're naive.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Money laundering via book 'sales' isnt something confined to republicans

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

All politicians have books.....a single person is free to buy 10,000 copies, book seller gets a cut and politicians get the rest..... 100% legal, clean profit. And the person that bought 10k copies gets access to said politicians