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Fnord
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18 Jan 2022, 1:54 pm

txfz1 wrote:
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Any real evidence that conservatives systematic torture their employees?
It would depend on how someone defines "systematic torture used by conservatives".

• Something that Grand Inquisitor Torquemada would inflict?  No.

• Something that Doctor Josef Mengele would inflict?  No.

• Negotiating a union contract in good faith and expecting all employees to adhere to it at all times?  No.

• Expecting employees to work a mandatory 50+ hour work-week for less than minimum wage under hazardous conditions and no medical benefits?  Yes.

Conservatism is not inherently bad; but it may be implemented in bad ways.
If half the country is basically conservative, there must be tons of evidence of “Expecting employees to work a mandatory 50+ hour work-week for less than minimum wage under hazardous conditions and no medical benefits?”

Show me evidence, be specific.
Since YOU claim there is evidence, it is up to YOU to provide it.  The first two examples were real-world; the second two were hypothetical.
I didn't think you could find any either, weak.
You could not refute the message, so you attacked the messenger.

Brictoria used to exhibit the same behavior.  I wonder what ever happened to him.



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19 Jan 2022, 10:20 pm

I broadly agree with the OP. Conservatism in the political sense is a force for maintaining the divide between the wealth of the rich and that of the poor. The Tories are the main party of the ruling class in the UK. The others haven't shown themselves to be much better of course, apart from Corbyn who seemed for a moment as if he was ready to try something socialist and egalitarian, before the Tories in his own party and the media got shut of him with all that antisemitism nonsense.



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19 Jan 2022, 10:29 pm

I feel the country runs better when we have different political parties plus I feel it is a reminder that we all have different opinions. The party out of power keeps tabs on the party in power.



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19 Jan 2022, 11:39 pm

There has never been a Conservative party in my lifetime that I have been impressed with, at any point in time. All of the different versions, past through until present, have been excessively capitalist.