I have a close friend that I’ve known 20 years who became obsessed with right-wing politics. even though I’m liberal, I don’t make it my entire personality and life. But anyway… I was talking to him this morning casually like friends do.
Me: “Hey man. Do you have off today for MLK day?” Friend: “No, I have to work today.” Me: “Damn, sorry to hear. I have off today since it’s a company holiday.” Friend: “Yeah, I work for a living. Guess that’s the difference me and people who live in an ivory tower.” Me: “Uhh I work for a living too. Idk why you’re acting like I don’t?” Friend: “I didn’t mean you specifically. But you’re off and I’m not so it shows that you get to relax at least. You should be able to handle the truth lol. There’s no shame in admitting that I’m a harder worker than everyone else. you shouldn’t be so sensitive”
Honestly, he’s not unique, either. I’ve met so many people who are conservative, obsessed with right-wing stuff, and they’re all like this. They act like they’re special and the whole world is lazy, “no one wants to work anymore” attitude.
Yeah I have a friend that does this too. They try to do it to me and I’m just like … I don’t care working is fucking annoying and jobs suck. I just do it to fuck with them but it always blows their damn mind lol.
I guarantee he is projecting how little he works on others. Every accusation these people make is a confession.
And yes, even the “why do you have to make it your entire personality?” is projection. As much of a cult as maggots are, I think the only real difference is trump is too stupid to use the usual double speak politicians were using before and the base that always was out for blood ate it up. He also gave them phrases and symbols to plaster over all their stuff.
Yet they will claim someone having a single pride sticker on their car or flag outside their house is “shoving it in their face” while they drive down the road with a 2 or more flags I their car, along with countless number stickers, and a house covered in at least a half dozen flags and signs.
And no, I’m not exaggerating. I see these trucks (always a shitty truck) and houses regularly where I currently live, and I’m fleeing in a month as I’m queer and one of their targets.
If you get paid more you can parrot the talking point that you are more valuable and work harder that is why you are compensated more. Or point out you have more leverage at your job because it is more valuable that is why you get more days off.
Yeah but then the clowns feelz would be hurt and they are not very good at coping with being checked like thay
Ego bruises too easily
Reminds me of this dipshit I saw in a Starbucks once wearing one of those anti-welfare t shirts. He spent a good 20 minutes bragging to this poor young woman working the counter about how hard of a worker he is and that people on welfare are parasites.
When she asked him what he did, he sheepishly responded that he did a few hours a week of per diem work at UPS. She just rolled her eyes and asked him if he needed anything in that “buy something or get fuck out” tone.
After he left, she started talking to another employee about how much of a tool he was. The other coworker responded that he pulls this goofy anti-welfare ranting shit to try and impress new girls and that he actually lives with his parents and collects state aid himself.
Tankies are pretty bad too but at least they only exist online.
There is no better measure of your worth to a conservative than how many hours you are willing to work in support of the 1% becoming even richer.
Hey you work hard enough and you might get a tombstone that reads “Worked really hard!” on it! Such a nice tombstone that your family gets to go in horrible debt for!
There is a reason, it’s a psychological phenomenon called narcissism.
Religious conservatives are trained from childhood to unwaveringly believe things that can’t be proven, and teaches that malice is the only acceptable way to get dopamine.
Its the moisture
Well, and the coldness inside too ❄️
You’ve got it backwards. Toxic and aggressive people become conservatives because it serves them emotionally.
Occasionally one is to queer to successfully do that, and have to find an alternate outlet, like stanning for North Korea or something.
idk, I know a gay conservative. Extremely stupid and selfish. He’s not even “normal gay” or whatever. He’s like some caricature out of a 90’s sitcom. Him and his boyfriend have the most toxic, untrusting relationship. I avoid him as much as possible.
Yeah, I’ve heard of that. Like, who’s that guy with the Greek name? I’ve also heard of gay fascists flip-flopping to the Wakanda North Korea thing.
Also, shout out to the gay weed-growing libertarians who get lumped in with fascists as “conservative”. I see you.
Milo something-or-anther? That guy is a grifter before anything else. He fell out of favor when he praised his childhood molester and later reinvented himself as a “cured former-homosexual”.
Have you met a “leftest?”
Company holidays mean you’re lazy? Bro needs to get a grip.
Friend doesn’t get a day off, complains about the “ivory tower” of those that get a holiday, instead of blaming his boss and/or company for being a souless machine grinding his bones to dust for 3 extra pennies that quarter.
i feel like these people really have a “don’t look up” mentality. whatever you do, don’t look directly into the sun, don’t look directly at your king, don’t ever talk about what the people in power are doing. rather, blame yourself and your friends/family /everybody else in society, rather than blame the politics of those in power.
Then proceeds to vote for the side that’s telling them they’re not working hard enough.
Let’s trade in some billionaires for more holidays.
Que: Eat the rich by Aerosmith
I mean, Steven Tyler’s a multimillion dollar rock star, But the song stands well.
Honestly, Millionaires are ok for now. It’s the Billionaires that are the real problem. They have way more hoarded wealth. Free Luigi.
Eat the rich by Motorhead!
Some people are too stupid to understand what to advocate for themselves against their owner daddy.
They only know to advocate for themselves against dirty migrant workers who gonna take their jerbs! But never against the owner hiring these undesirables.
To be clear, liberals have their own blind spots.
How is hiring some overpaid clown and make you sit through a “seminar” during work is DEI?
I’ve had to have those seminars reframed to understand them. They aren’t meant to actually increase diversity, equity, or inclusion. There are policies meant to be read and understood, and there are policies meant to be pointed at. Those seminars are like the sexual harassment seminars. They aren’t thinking “now that we’ve informed you of how to not act like a sexual predator in the workplace you’ll be more prepared to behave yourself.” They’re making you take that seminar so that way when someone tries to claim that they didn’t know they couldn’t tell their coworkers about their genitals at work you can point to the sexual harassment training you gave them. These dei lectures are about liability.
Those seminars are like the sexual harassment seminars. Th
Boomers sexually harassed women so now younger people have to do a training for it
Same thing with racism…
People who did are not taking these stupid seminars.
As you said, this is for corporate propaganda and legal liability issues
