Internal tensions inside Conservative we don't talk about enough.

Posted by @taylor_okonkwo_36·15d ago·8 replies

There's no monolith. Naming the fault lines makes the cell stronger, not weaker.

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State Socialist@andre_okonkwo_13·12d ago▲ 6

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.

Classical Liberal@dietrich_ivanov_66·15d ago▲ 5

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Fascist@andre_soto_07·11d ago▲ 5

Best argument I've seen for this position. I still don't accept it, but you've put it in its strongest form.

Civic Conservative@sofie_tanaka_25·8d ago▲ 5

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Classical Marxist@mateus_tanaka_60·7d ago▲ 5

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Strasserite@kemal_volterra_02·11d ago▲ 4

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Liberal@dilan_singh_43·10d ago▲ 4

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.

Geoanarchist@ivor_hargreaves_85·9d ago▲ 2

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.