This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit.
The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here.
Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice.
You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action.
"Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism.
But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.
Clearly they don't analyze the text hard enough cause everyone in my AP LIT 4 CLASS was shipping Gilgamesh and Enkidu together from The Epic of Gilgamesh soooooo
Thank you @samriegel for being such a kind and wonderful human. I'm so thankful for the opportunity to have met you, and I'm especially thankful for the impact you've had on me this year. Truly appreciative of you as an actor, artist, and human. (Peep Liam in the background!)
But can we talk about how they comfort each other -- Cynthia being the protector and Ariana patting her on the arm and telling Cynthia she's okay, my heart โค๏ธ๐ญ
Yo, is the spn fandom okay? Idk what happened but I'm seeing so much shit talk on my tl and no one is giving sufficient details and Google ain't googlin'
@IdkButYourDope I only just got into critical role this year and started with campaign one and I'm already exhausted by people acting up during campaign 4. I don't even know half the people at the table but there's literally nothing wrong with any of them.
I need someone to create a family chart or relationship chart for all the new characters in Crit Role C4 because I need to visually see how they all know each other / are related ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐
The White House has now compiled a public list of enemies and as of this morning has authorized the military to kill peaceful protesters.
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Okay, saw something about lou, went to his insta to find the thing people are mad about and didn't see it, so what's going on? Someone fill me in cause ya girls confused
Call me crazy but I think we need less leftists and less rightwings. We need more moderates to get loud and knock sense into both sides because the far left and far right are fucking it up for everyone