#conservative principles

[rebuiltzine]

Bridging Divides, Building Citizens: The Fremont Conservative Institute’s Mission to Unite America

In an age marked by political polarization and ideological echo chambers, one organization is standing tall with a bold and necessary vision: to foster unity—not uniformity—through principled civic education. The Fremont Conservative Institute, Ltd. (FCI) is rewriting the narrative around conservatism in America, not through partisanship or culture war tactics, but through respectful dialogue,…

[wernher-von-brawny]

Kissinger and Nixon collaborated with Vietnam to influence the 1968 election.

The Reagan campaign collaborated with Iran to influence the 1980 election.

Who TF is dull enough to be surprised by a 50+ year old pattern of Republican behavior?

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Justin Horowitz at MMFA:

Project 2025 advisory board members have attacked or outright called for the end of no-fault divorce, the option to dissolve a marriage without having to prove wrongdoing by a partner. Research highlighted by CNN found “no-fault divorce correlates with a reduction in female suicides and a reduction in intimate partner violence,” including “an 8 to 16% decrease in female suicides after states enacted no-fault divorce laws.” Project 2025 is backed by a nearly-900 page policy book called Mandate for Leadership, which extensively outlines potential approaches to governance for the next Republican administration, including replacing federal employees with extremists and Trump loyalists and attacking LGBTQ rights, abortion, and contraception. The Heritage Foundation’s proposals have a track record of success — the first Trump administration implemented 64% of Mandate’s policy recommendations. Project 2025 is also supported by a coalition of over 100 conservative organizations, many of which have spent years promoting critiques of no-fault divorce as “destructive” for society — or even blaming it for enabling a “culture of death.” According to a Media Matters review, at least 22 Project 2025 advisory board members have made similar comments targeting, restricting, or eliminating no-fault divorce. Additionally, MAGA and far-right media figures have pushed for the removal of no-fault divorce laws across the country, and several local Republican parties in Texas, Nebraska, and Louisiana have called for the dissolution of no-fault divorce in some capacity.

Project 2025 partner organizations, including the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, and The Heritage Foundation, have called for significant restrictions or an outright ban on no-fault divorce.

[blackwolfmanx4]

Real Talk:

Statism is the belief system of having authority use violence and coercion against the people who've broken laws, regardless of how arbitrary they are. That is the ultimate form of brainrot. Gun control, drug wars, imaginary lines on every country, taxes etc are the reasons how we got here. If there is no victim then there is no crime. Stop excusing politicians using fluffy words to justify breaking the non aggression principle.

[the-psudo]

GOP: The US government shouldn't be picking winners and losers in the economy.

GOP: We have to drain the swamp in Washington! Stop the revolving door between corporate lobbyists and government positions! GOP: What? How dare you criticize Elon Musk! It's not a conflict of interest that he's getting billions in subsidies while firing anyone in government who attempts oversight over his companies! He's saving the US government several percent of its budget, almost 1/20th as much as the tax cuts will cost!

[tomwambsgans]

tomgreg is not "i could fix him" nor "i could make him worse" but "i could make him feel like a real person." from both ends.

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

A local bakery in my town who used to do Pride themed pastries all June long and then donate the proceeds to local queer charities and organizations isn't participating this year and is otherwise giving total radio silence on the matter. I don't really care too much if a large corporation turns their back on the community but a small business that's well known in a rural community? That's so back handed.

[buam]

Colossal is telling so many blatant, stupid lies about their “dire wolves” that I’m side eyeing the whole company. I wonder where they fall on the Tesla “full self driving” to Theranos scale? Because I’m starting to lean towards Theranos.

[count-woe-laf]

taking one (1) political science class is just. Huh. People really truly fundamentally misunderstand the words they use sometimes

[slingbees]

i had a vision of a contemporary fahrenheit 451 adaptation where the exaggerated wall sized television screens are replaced with an in universe version of tiktok to prove how stupid videos are and how virtuous and intellectual books are and in this universe i can finally fulfill my dream of becoming the fucking joker

[unopenablebox]

ugh i'm trying not to be a dick to my mom, who suffers enough. but i cannot believe she's decided to go in on "desecrating flags is a bad look for anyone" re: the student protests like a) that's obviously not the principle you're actually using to decide who and what to criticize here b) it's not desecrating a flag to take it down and replace it with another flag c) every time my parents say shit like this it makes me feel like maybe i alone retain memories of my family's beliefs and experiences during the bush administration, which is bad because i was like six at the time

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Madeline Peltz and John Knefel at MMFA:

Media Matters found significant ties between authors, contributors, and partner organizations involved in Project 2025 — an extreme right-wing initiative organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and personnel to the next Republican presidential administration — and the ongoing right-wing efforts to disenfranchise voters and sow confusion about the 2024 election. The Heritage Foundation itself is at the center of many of these efforts; The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer identified the conservative think tank as one of the election denial movement’s “leaders” following the 2020 election. Heritage has extensive connections to election denial groups through both direct collaboration on voter suppression policies and the Project 2025 advisory board, which includes more than 110 conservative groups.  According to the Brennan Center for Justice, “Project 2025 threatens to reverse progress made over the last four years by stripping crucial federal resources from election officials and weaponizing the Department of Justice against officials who make decisions the administration disagrees with.” The Project 2025 policy book, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, recommends dismantling the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which plays a key role in protecting American elections. Mandate’s chapter on the Federal Election Commission was written by Hans von Spakovsky, a Heritage legal fellow with a decades-long career spreading voter fraud myths. The Heritage Foundation’s political arm, Heritage Action, is a member of the Only Citizens Vote Coalition — a collection of election denial activists and right-wing groups that voting rights experts say are spreading misinformation about noncitizen voting. Only Citizens Vote was organized by prominent election denier Cleta Mitchell, a Project 2025 contributor, and many of the Heritage plan’s advisory board members are also Only Citizen Vote Coalition partners. In collaboration with The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025, the groups and individuals listed here are at the forefront of efforts to sow chaos and confusion in the 2024 election.

Project 2025 partner groups are seeking a redux of their unsuccessful 2020 election-stealing efforts to sow chaos about a potential Kamala Harris win with their bogus crusade against the essentially nonexistent bogeyman of noncitizen voting.

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[jimmyspades]

"When did you have your last abortion? Until you know everything that goes with it, don't you dare lecture me or anybody about–" "I know what goes with it! Obviously I haven't experienced the physical part, but I know the overwhelming emotion that goes with it. I know the sense of loss, I know the doubt, the guilt, so please, don't–" BOSTON LEGAL 5.08 "Roe"

[aeide-thea]

like, someone posted an article recently that was like 'i didn't like these books because the main characters were women who slept with women but weren't sufficiently enlightened about it for me as a queer woman to feel Represented,' and i just felt like. i bet i wouldn't enjoy those books either, judging from the reviewer's description! but faced with a review that's like 'these characters had attitudes i found unpleasant'—iirc a tendency to ironic detachment and internalized fatphobia respectively, which, to be clear, i expect i would also find unpleasant! but those are attitudes that plenty of real young women do have; are we arguing it's only acceptable to tell stories about the sort of people we'd personally want to befriend?—'so i didn't find their stories nourishing,' it's hard for me not to think, okay, fair enough, but—should 'nourishing' really be the definitive metric for art? should 'savory'? an author's job is, after all, to make art, not food…

[parateuthis]

is it possible to be so sleepy you explode? my crumpled and lifeless form may surprise you

[selamat-linting]

by the way when i say i like political references in music i dont mean vague jabs at current events i mean guys who sang about some us war crime from the 90s that never got news coverage or guys who put annotations of fucking wikipedia articles in their lyrics. i mean people who sing about politics with earnest, not in this semi-ironic detached jabs or a stupid twitter gotcha or worse, treating the subject matter of the song as something that's gone out of hand and they cant do anything about it but laugh or shrug. political music's only good when its passionate and the singer sung as if they could change the world by speaking their truth in art. i'd choose cheesy over smug apathy.