I do like the idea of a thousand (liberal) churches blooming!
But the point of a church endorsing candidates/parties is that its congregants then vote, as a bloc, as their church tells them to vote.
The Sacred Assembly of the Mechanical Pencil probably doesn't have enough adherents to constitute a voting bloc.
Perhaps a "Sacred Assembly of Really Cool Mechanical Tools No Longer in General Use"? You could get the self-propelling pencil folks, and the people who still love their Texas Instruments calculators, their slide rules, and anyone who still knows what a protractor is, and there may be quite a few rotary phone fans waiting for a spiritual home!
2025-07-05 21:44:27
novakant:
"But let's also remember that the good old days were those of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. "
I think that's when the split started on ObiWi. We had 500+ comment posts about torture, with people who recognized torture as an atrocity, full stop, arguing with people who thought torture was justified and useful. IIRC, most of the original front pagers were still around, and most of them were Iraq War hawks.
2025-07-05 14:04:35
I am a woman, and a Boomer.
I used to spend some time seeking out conservatives sites and voices, hoping for rational conversations about policy ends and means, but then they reached the logical end of modern US conservativism and went nuts.
I mean, this isn't me saying "Conservative thought is nuts" just because I'm liberal.
This is me saying "Conservative thought is nuts because it actively celebrates things that conservatives once swore they were opposed to, purely because their media leaders have told them to"... or, I dunno, just because they own the US government now and they can do whatever they want...?
And what they want is neo-feudalism, with concentration camps...?
I still drop in at Volokh Conspiracy once in a while, but the lunacy is in full swing with most of their FPers... and the comment sections are cesspools.
I could re-subscribe to The Atlantic, where some non-rabid conservatives have found a home, but they don't represent any actual political movement - and not enough of an opposition to their Party's current manifestation - so I'm not sure what the value is.
I do like the idea of a thousand (liberal) churches blooming!
But the point of a church endorsing candidates/parties is that its congregants then vote, as a bloc, as their church tells them to vote.
The Sacred Assembly of the Mechanical Pencil probably doesn't have enough adherents to constitute a voting bloc.
Perhaps a "Sacred Assembly of Really Cool Mechanical Tools No Longer in General Use"? You could get the self-propelling pencil folks, and the people who still love their Texas Instruments calculators, their slide rules, and anyone who still knows what a protractor is, and there may be quite a few rotary phone fans waiting for a spiritual home!
novakant:
"But let's also remember that the good old days were those of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. "
I think that's when the split started on ObiWi. We had 500+ comment posts about torture, with people who recognized torture as an atrocity, full stop, arguing with people who thought torture was justified and useful. IIRC, most of the original front pagers were still around, and most of them were Iraq War hawks.
I am a woman, and a Boomer.
I used to spend some time seeking out conservatives sites and voices, hoping for rational conversations about policy ends and means, but then they reached the logical end of modern US conservativism and went nuts.
I mean, this isn't me saying "Conservative thought is nuts" just because I'm liberal.
This is me saying "Conservative thought is nuts because it actively celebrates things that conservatives once swore they were opposed to, purely because their media leaders have told them to"... or, I dunno, just because they own the US government now and they can do whatever they want...?
And what they want is neo-feudalism, with concentration camps...?
I still drop in at Volokh Conspiracy once in a while, but the lunacy is in full swing with most of their FPers... and the comment sections are cesspools.
I could re-subscribe to The Atlantic, where some non-rabid conservatives have found a home, but they don't represent any actual political movement - and not enough of an opposition to their Party's current manifestation - so I'm not sure what the value is.