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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not entirely fair. I know a dude who was a tech for the US army and is conservative. Dipshit told me he voted for Trump 4 times in 2016, which is the last time we spoke. It was an, uh, interesting conversation

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    He told you four times, or he voted four times?

    Should be fairly hard to vote four times. If you send in absentee ballots and then go vote, well, you only get one voter id, so the previous attempt is just overwritten.

    Maybe he fooled himself?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    he voted absentee, then he went to four [edit: wait, three. it's been a bit] different precincts. he ignored all conversation in which they would have told them that this would cancel his absentee and any previous votes he had cast (which also cancelled his local votes. dipshit. he only voted for president on his fraudulent ballots). it's almost like they built the system to plan for this kind of tomfoolery and fraud. and that they, meaning the authorities, would likely know what he was up to even if i didn't (and wouldn't, in light of our long friendship) report him, and that he was guilty of a 5 year max felony. which is what i told him. also warned him not to tell me about any more election-related crimes because i was obligated by my profession's code of ethical conduct to report them. i wasn't, but i wanted him to knock off his dipshittery maybe. haven't seen him since.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If he voted for Trump he's not conservative, and neither is MAGA.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Absolutely not splitting hairs - MAGA getting away with posing as "conservative" is a big deal. Genuine conservatism in America has become almost totally submerged.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    there are lots of people whining "they're not conservative, they're authoritarian" who are both conservative and authoritarian. it's not like a lot of them aren't both.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    "Lots of people" whining doesn't change the fact that what we call modern conservatism is no longer conservative. If you aren't going to make an actual point I'm done.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Sure but the framing for conservatism in this thread is PragerU who absolutely see it all as the same thing.

    Just like I can go into topics about digital games and rightfully point our bluray and dvd are digital media but all I'm really doing is shouting at clouds like an old man about a technicality.

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