Just kidding, remember to support your local food bank if you are able

Conservatives don't use the food bank because they all have jobs.

Every single one of them.

And none of them need more than one job, because they work hard. </sarcasm>

I thought the meme was funny, but felt bad joking about people starving.

I assume everything you post is sarcasm 😆

Sarcasm? "Ignorance" is the word I had in mind...

"Conservatives don't use the food bank because they all have jobs."

Being a former client of the food bank I can deem that very statement as the biggest and stupidest nonsense ever uttered by a human tongue or written on any medium, at all...

How can I be so straight out? Because loads of people at the food bank had jobs too... Only a very few of them hadn't.... Having a job is NO GUARANTEE AT ALL for being spared from poverty, and that is a cold hard fact. You can try to deny it, but denying facts doesn't fall under the freedom of expression, as that's not the right to deny facts or to tell lies! PERIOD! To let you into a secret.... I'm pretty sure some of them even did more work in an hour than you might have done over your entire life! And some of them even had quite a salary too and yet they had to rely on the food bank.

It's a really old, misconception that people living in poverty only ended up there because they'd be "too lazy to work", as that only counts for a very small portion of them, and that actually counts for all countries all over the globe, NO EXCEPTIONS. No, not even the U.S.A. (actually in the U.S.A. the problem is far worse than in loads of other countries, which is also a cold hard fact, and not a leftist opinion. Being left is not about stating facts and right is also not about denying them, you know).

This misconception is by the way a bigger problem than poverty itself and even one of the most important reasons why poverty cannot be solved, either. After all, when you deny the source of the problem, you can never solve it (part of lesson #1 in problem solving).

I've given you the cold hard facts, as a guy who've seen the inside of the food bank for more than a year, and thus having met the people who need to rely on them, so don't even try to bring in argumentation against it. It would be like a guy who never touched a computer at all claiming he knows more about the C programming language than a professional coder does.

Cut short, your statement is bullshit!

Oh, and don't pity me for being a former client of the food bank. For me it was a very illuminating experience, that taught me a lot. When I hear rich people take pride because "they worked hard for their money" I know, more than they know, how much they mock people who have likely worked harder than they can possibly imagine, as they never did so much as they did.

The world is not so black-white as those who work earn well and those who don't work do not.

Any time.... ;)

"I can deem that very statement as the biggest and stupidest nonsense ever uttered by a human tongue or written on any medium"

Then my mockery was more successful than I'd hoped! Thanks!

Yeah. I found out only after I posted my rant you were mocking the "conservatives" (conservatism is not equal to stupidity, or at least not necessarily), so sorry for that... But still I do think my rant may have caught those who may come and defend that phrase before they even got here, so perhaps posting that wasn't so bad after all...

I upvoted your rant.

Thank you ;)

Load of conservatism comes out of fear for the unknown. Conservatism is the will to preserve the old and to reject the new. Well in its purest form at least. Sometimes a bit of conservatism is good. The opposite is progressive thinking... Embrace the new, reject the old. When progressive thinking goes into the extreme it can be just as destructive.

Of course, it mostly takes intelligent people to invent new things, and thus change the world, so in that sense Mill has a point as people who cannot keep it up in that way of thinking easily reject what they don't understand. The past is what we know after all, and nobody knows the future, we can only try to make a kind of estimation based on data we have now, but that never becomes 100% reality.

Progressiveness is the will to experiment. Experimenting requires intelligence, at least to a certain level (depending also what you are experimenting with).

Of course, this is all theory... Reality is always a bit stranger.

it was sarcastic

I consider the fridge more of a conservator than a conservative

I was just making a bad pun 😁😜

Yeah, what happened to the conservation in conservatism?

Basically the terms mean the same thing, or have at least the same origin. "Conserve". The core essence of conservatism as a political ideology is "The past have been proven to work, so why change anything that is potentially dangerous? So let's conserve the way things way were, that's all for the better." In order words, keep things up the way they were longer. Conserving food, is also to keep them edible longer, edible is what they were, and what they will not be in the future.

So the fridge does to food what conservatism attempts to do to society... That is, conservatism in the purest sense of the words. as what Trump stands for... I don't see that as conservatism, but rather as destructiveness, which is the downright opposite of conserving. Being against gay marriage is a clear example of conservatism. It's new, it wasn't there in the past, so it's horrible by default (and described as an "abomination" thousands of years ago), so basically something conserved from the past. Now I don't support that idea, as I don't see why gays shouldn't get the same happiness as straight people, but there sometimes are things in which the old is better. Why do we need everybody to call us wherever we are? Can't people call me again when I'm back home? Conservatism is not necessarily bad, but when it goes into the extreme.... (well basically everything is terrible when it goes to the extreme).