metamitya ·
conservatives must find themselves and organize their political movement around the actual tyranny happening all around them
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metamitya ·
conservatives proclaim love of the constitution but abide its heinous violations
metamitya ·
civil asset forfeiture is the legalization of outright theft by the police. i dont understand how it is allowed to stand in a country founded on the sanctity of property rights
metamitya ·
the prohibition against consuming plants to alter your own state of consciousness is literally the prohibition against experiencing certain states of consciousness. it is book burning on steroids, human growth hormone, and infinity stones
metamitya ·
what percentage of us in jail
metamitya ·
it is a strange country we live in that when a citizen transgresses against the government they are subject to the most severe consequences but when a government transgresses against its citizens there are barely any consequences
metamitya ·
prosecutorial immunity, the thin blue line, and a two-tiered justice system where the politically connected get white-glove treatment are the pillars of the police state in which we find ourselves
metamitya ·
while conservatives clutch at the 2nd amendment their bill of rights is eviscerated around them
metamitya ·
much of this dissonance exists bc this machinery of oppression is exercised as the last gasps of white supremacy
metamitya ·
unable to wield its racist powers explicitly the worst of the right lobbies for the selective application of totalitarian police powers
metamitya ·
but as they should have understood already, once such power is granted it will inevitably be turned against you
metamitya ·
and so, instead of embracing the naturally conservative constituency of black men and women being nickel and dimed by an abusive state, the right slimes the victims of police shootings
metamitya ·
imagine the political power waiting to be seized by a conservative willing to re-discover the principles of small government and reach out to the communities most affected by the overreach of state power