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Freddie

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Sun Dec 28, 2025, 12:11 PM

9 hrs ago

Nancy Reagan was opposed to stem cell research until Ronnie got Alzheimer’s.
Dick Cheney was against gay rights until his daughter came out.
Countless examples of “pro life” women until they discovered the fetus they were carrying had no brain.
MTG was opposed to the ACA until she realized that the “big beautiful bill” was going to affect her family.
It ONLY matters when it affects them.

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The conservative ethos distilled. [View all] Swede 10 hrs ago OP

This Freddie 9 hrs ago #1

some of us get it from empathy NJCher 7 hrs ago #10

AKA FAFO nt eppur_se_muova 5 hrs ago #15

And if they get through it RandomNumbers 9 hrs ago #2

K&R ck4829 9 hrs ago #3

What I found conservatives want to conserve: lastlib 9 hrs ago #4

John Kenneth Galbraith: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; sop 9 hrs ago #5

Meghan McCain, the greatest mind of our generation. mr715 9 hrs ago #6

Wilhoit's law. usonian 8 hrs ago #7

The life of living in a bubble Uncle Joe 7 hrs ago #8

Dipping her toe into the swamp xuplate 7 hrs ago #9

It's the missing empathy gene again -- likely the leading cause of "conservatism" (nt) William Seger 7 hrs ago #11

Empathy is the child of imagination, which conservatives apply in a highly selective' fashion. nt eppur_se_muova 4 hrs ago #16

I was castigated markie 7 hrs ago #12

I call it the Empathy Divide Tasmanian Devil 7 hrs ago #13

Republicans tend to be terrible on issues that don't affect them personally; usually pretty good on those that do. Fil1957 6 hrs ago #14

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