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On 5/28/2024 5:42 PM, john larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2024 17:35:46 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/28/2024 5:07 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 16:02:38 -0400, bitrex wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
>>>> conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
>>>> paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
>>>> reading the journals that contain them.
>>>>
>>>> But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
>>>> "highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
>>>> popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
>>>>
>>>> Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
>>>> degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
>>>> least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
>>>> to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
>>>> equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
>>>> in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
>>>
>>> That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
>>> should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
>>> degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort  believe it's only
>>> permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
>>> which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
>>> who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
>>>
>>
>> Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the
>> same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses
>> in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1%
>> substance and 99% sales.
> 
> The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
> understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
> world, and they need to be managed.

What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that ever 
was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords work, 
depending.

It's a philosophy of sorts, no doubt a kind appealing to the people of 
fading empires, in failing times throughout history.

> Do vacuum-cleaner salespeople still exist? It's hard to compete with
> Walmart and Amazon.


I'd probably talk to a vacuum cleaner salesperson just out of some 
amount of nostalgia, it's true.