American conservatives

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American conservatives is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 08, 2022 and November 02, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “American conservatives say nice things about enemy dictators”; “Chavez was authoritarian in the way that American conservatives claim that wokeness is “creeping authoritarianism”“. It most often appears alongside America, Belarus, Iraq.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: March 08, 2022
  • Last seen: November 02, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

March 08, 2022 · Original source
The past few years have seen some of the most powerful players in the Western world, like the big tech companies, refuse to help their own military because they think it’s evil. They’ve seen American conservatives say nice things about enemy dictators because at least they’re not American liberals, and American liberals start treating guns like some kind of eldritch artifact that makes anyone who touches them or associates with them inherently polluted.
November 02, 2023 · Original source
Instead of firing squads at midnight, Chavez was authoritarian in the way that American conservatives claim that wokeness is “creeping authoritarianism”. He and his network of allies controlled the media, the institutions, and all the good jobs. If you flattered him, the media would say nice things about you, you would get preferential treatment when interfacing with institutions, and could count on a well-paying sinecure at some government department or nationalized company. If you questioned his rule, you would find that every news story about you was negative, and you were locked out of any job besides janitor or taxi driver.