realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com · 1 month agoTough Love: Do I Sever Ties with My Anti-Vax Brother?www.thefp.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down11file-text
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A reader is struggling with the ‘unsafe choices’ her brother makes for his kids. https://www.thefp.com/p/tough-love-do-i-sever-ties-with-my
minus-squareCarlGustaf@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYes. Politics isn’t some imaginary concept, it has real world implications that affect peoples lives. Trans people have nothing to do with conservatism, that’s some weird Anglo thing.
minus-squareLovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSo you are saying that culture war issues are not really a conservative thing… Because in your country trans people are just a fully normal, integrated part of mainstream politics, or…?
minus-squareCarlGustaf@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI’m saying we have real issues to focus on. Only a weird person would spend their time and energy caring about what’s in peoples pants.
minus-squareLovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIt’s not about individuals, but about the public consensus around basic social norms… Which falls into both liberal/conservative camps.
Yes.
Politics isn’t some imaginary concept, it has real world implications that affect peoples lives.
Trans people have nothing to do with conservatism, that’s some weird Anglo thing.
So you are saying that culture war issues are not really a conservative thing… Because in your country trans people are just a fully normal, integrated part of mainstream politics, or…?
I’m saying we have real issues to focus on. Only a weird person would spend their time and energy caring about what’s in peoples pants.
It’s not about individuals, but about the public consensus around basic social norms…
Which falls into both liberal/conservative camps.