#conservative logic

It's ironic that conservatives complain about this, because one of the biggest parts of their ideology is expecting people to change themselves to be successful instead of expecting success to be handed to them.

If your boss doesn't pay you enough, or if no one will hire you, conservatives always say that the solution is to learn better skills and be more willing to serve in order to convince the capitalist class that you're worthy.

The Necropolitics of the American Right: A Death Cult - by HoodooBarbie

"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term, and it does a lot of damage." - Charlie Kirk

According to the brutal, self-fulfilling logic of the ideology he championed, Charlie Kirk would not have wanted anyone to feel empathy for him. On a stage in Utah, in the midst of a debate on the very gun violence that would moments later claim his life, the far-right commentator was the architect of his own philosophical prison. His murder, a grotesque act of violence witnessed by his family, is a profound tragedy. Yet, it is also the ultimate indictment of the modern conservative and Christian nationalist movement he represented—a movement that has shed the core tenets of its claimed faith to embrace a necropolitical worldview, a cult of death masquerading as a crusade for life.

Kirk’s dismissal of empathy is fundamentally at odds with the bedrock of the Christian doctrine he purported to defend. The Bible does not see empathy as a “made-up” modern concept but as an essential expression of God's character and a non-negotiable command for believers. It is the engine of compassion, the bridge to loving one's neighbor, and the glue of a unified community. The Apostle Paul commands it in Romans 12:15: "Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep." The Apostle John weaponizes it against hollow faith, writing in 1 John 3:17-18, "If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth."

This was exemplified by Jesus himself. Matthew 9:36 states, "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." His empathy was active, leading to healing and advocacy. This extends to a mandate for social justice, as in Proverbs 31:8-9: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy."

Kirk’s life’s work, however, was a systematic rejection of this biblical imperative. His platform became a safe space for hate, and his rhetoric consistently targeted the very people Scripture commanded him to defend. This reveals a chilling truth: for him and his movement, Christianity was not a faith to be lived but a tool to be weaponized.

· Un-Christian Attacks on CRT & Minorities: While preaching a gospel of "love," his movement demonized efforts to address America’s racial history (Critical Race Theory), directly contradicting the call to "defend the rights of the poor and needy" and seek justice.

· Un-Christian Attacks on the LGBTQ+ Community: Instead of weeping with those who weep or offering compassion, his rhetoric often dehumanizes a vulnerable community, the antithesis of the Good Samaritan’s active love for the "other."

· The Idolatry of the Gun: The movement’s core tenet is a fetishization of weapons that rejects any call for communal safety, placing an object above human life.

This active rejection of empathy is the hallmark of a death cult. It is anti-life. This ideology doesn’t seek to conserve or save; it seeks to dominate. Its end goal is not flourishing communities but a hierarchical oligarchy sustained by a diminished middle class, suppressed free speech, and the economic and social servitude of minorities, the poor or unworthy white, and non-conforming individuals. History is littered with its fruits: the atrocities of colonialism committed in the name of Christ, the violent oppression of the Jim Crow South defended by pious segregationists, and various modern injustices like denying healthcare to the vulnerable or separating migrant families at the border, all while waving the flag of faith.

Just moments before the trigger was pulled, Kirk was likely articulating the central dogma of this cult, a sentiment he and his allies have expressed countless times:

"GUN DEATHS ARE AN UNFORTUNATE BUT ACCEPTABLE COST OF PRESERVING SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO PROTECT OUR OTHER GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS. THAT IS A PRUDENT DEAL. IT IS RATIONAL." - also Charles Kirk

In a horrifying twist of fate, Charlie Kirk became the cost. He lived by the sword of violent rhetoric and an unflinching devotion to the instruments of death, and he died by it. In his own words, he rationally justified his own murder. This is the insidious psychological trap of the Conservative Christian Nationalist death cult: it convinces its adherents that the inevitable violence it cultivates is a noble, even holy, sacrifice.

Therefore, our response must be mindful. To guard our own souls from the spiritual death this ideology promotes, we must not mirror its lack of empathy with gleeful celebration. His death is a tragedy—not for the man he was, but for the situation it reveals. It is the tragic endpoint of a poisoned worldview. We can, and should, feel empathy for the human terror of the moment, for his family’s trauma, and for a nation so sickened by political violence that such events feel almost inevitable. This is not empathy for Kirk’s ideology, but empathy despite it—a crucial exercise in mindfulness to prevent our own empathy fatigue and moral descent.

Despite his unlikable and damaging qualities, Charlie Kirk was ultimately a victim. A victim of the very anti-life, unempathetic death cult he evangelized for. He truly believed its tenets were godly, but God, as defined by love, compassion, and empathy, was absent from his theology. His Christianity was the one corrupted centuries ago by hierarchical elites—like King James, who commissioned a Bible translation to legitimize his divorce—and modern grifters who twist scripture to serve power, not people. Kirk was a charismatic tool in this project, used to spread poisonous ideas that make people more fearful, more hateful, and more docile, easier to manipulate into supporting their own servitude.

Because it's true. They are.

Transgender people are humans.

Squashing trans rights is denying humans of their human rights.

Cis people are also human and should care about this because

it is morally correct to care about other people and

if one group's rights can be stripped away, anyone's can.

But if there's one thing that I've learnt from the argument over the ECHR, it's this:

Conservatives think they're above humans.

I know that sounds hyperbolic, but it's the most succinct way I could put it. The type of conservative that supports Reform/Farage or their counterparts elsewhere, do not think that human rights apply to them.

I'm pretty sure that, in their minds, it works something like this. White people created civilization and are better than everyone else. Bleeding heart liberals invented human rights because they wanted to give the unwashed barbarians a leg up. That was dangerous because it gives them power. So the common sense position is to stop trying to help them, thus we don't need human rights at all.

That, in a nutshell, seems to be the thrust of conservative thought regarding the ECHR. Naturally there will be some similar house of cards when pointing out that trans rights are human rights.

How we prick this sense of exceptionalism I do not know, but it's a serious problem. These people who think they're above the need for human rights, because they're white or cishet or whatever, they vote. They vote against everyone's best interest, excepting the few rich arseholes whose lies they believe.

I'm a Republican in the same way the Lincoln was a Republican. I stand for some of the same things that he stood for.

The federal government should provide public transportation nationwide.

We shouldn't be using our militia to threaten other countries in international diplomacy and federal policy.

The minimum wage should be the cost of living at least.

Sending in militia to threaten American people is horrid and should not be done.

Immigrants need to be provided the same rights of any other American person, regardless of immigration status. Asylum seekers are always welcome.

The main cause of the civil war was caused by disagreements regarding slavery and civil rights.

The government needs to stay in the place of the government and not raid people's lives.

The government is not supposed to govern private affairs, only legal and civil affairs.