Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

british imperialism was better than most of the alternatives

individualism is in many respects v good

i've got nothing else i can think of, you people are monsters tbh

'cept unregistered maybe, can get behind the secret atheism bit

brown sugar runs rings around superfoods as a topping for oatmeal.

i have brooks brothers glasses

Compulsory parade attendance.

yoga is bullshit

military technology is pretty cool

I am this guy IRL

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Gb%2B7TzrEL._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

it is obnoxious for boys under the age of 13 to have long hair, and an indication that their parents are overindulgent.

today, while at the supermarket, I saw a boy of no more than 10 with a mohawk and felt genuinely incensed.

i like to open a door for a lady

lol, there is definitely this thing that happens in Brooklyn where I see certain longhaired pre-teens and I can just *tell* that they have skateboard dads who encourage them to have it, like it's not even rebellious but actually DL striving by the parents.

I like women.

I don't append "cis" to the male box that I check off on every form.

Cannot abide visible bra straps, even when fashionable

Dogs are outside pets.

Tattoos.

an individual's actions does have something to do w/ their success

not all cultures are equally wonderful and some are bad enough that they should be discouraged

life could be hellish and for many ppl it is so if yours isn't some gratitude is probably in order

nb 1 + 3 might not be internally consistent

Femmephobia is way less useful as a critical concept than misogyny

Self-care is necessary but not thereby radically oppositional

Couching leftist projects in terms of resistance to neoliberalism rather than to capitalism risks a lot of reformist implications

(Not that femmephobia can't be useful in order to talk about, say, biases in specific queer spaces, but it can mystify the conditions that butch and gnc women actually face if applied too generally.)

watching grown adults discussing rae sremmurd like it was literature is to behold the end of art

that's not a "reveal" per se

I forgot imago had some sort of Sremm beef. Why so much hate?

Marxism is dumb and bad.

Capitalist liberal democracy is the end point of Western civilization, it will never be superseded by a higher/better form of social organization, will only end through collapse.

Men should not have facial hair and people in general should not have messy hair.

xps i don't recall saying that you can hear a soulja boy's influence on chaucer

lol "a soulja boy." the soulja boy's tale

currently at peak hair and beard, this will probably only end by collapse too tbh

sremm beef = just watch their latest video, 'set the roof' and listen to the lyrics, they're just the worst people in earth, i fucking despise literally everything they're doing, it isn't even abrasive in an interesting way

lol crut, one for old-skool ilx that

hir wese y manne ful cranke, tellynge

Femmephobia is way less useful as a critical concept than misogyny

Self-care is necessary but not thereby radically oppositional

Couching leftist projects in terms of resistance to neoliberalism rather than to capitalism risks a lot of reformist implications

― one way street, Thursday, August 4, 2016 10:52 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink]

looooool

women's sports are, in general, less exciting versions of men's sports

http://allproudamericans.com/paimages/does-duck-and-cover-really-work.jpg

I'll watch women's tennis from time to time but yeah

There are too many things that I massively disagree with posted here for it to be worth a fight on any one of them. I'm just wondering why the 'loool' at ows? Because those aren't really conservative standpoints? They kind of are in comparison to a lot of current radical discourse (I agree with all of them, though not entirely with the latter, but again, I kind of feel this thread is meant to be a dumping ground not a discussion ground).

women's sports are, in general, less exciting versions of men's sports

― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:52 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sexual dimorphism of humans def means that a lot of sports are more exciting to watch when men are playing them but otoh a lot of women's sports are less commercialized and therefore less likely to suffer from rampant PED use endemic to men's sports and therefore likely to be more of a clean competition

also crowds at woman's sports tend to be less shitty

(emil.y i was laughing at the extreme relativity necessary to consider those "conservative opinions." i assumed they were posted tongue in cheek so thought i was laughing along with one way street, not at them, and wasn't critiquing the positions themselves)

Can't speak for sciatica but I lol'ed at ows' post bc it requires some, like, wicked fractal definition of conservatism within the queer anticapotalist left. but I get how all those opinions could be uncool rn

liberalism as many of my friends practice it is like a shitty religion that i want no part of.

they think of other people as needing to be saved, by them.
they make penance with speech acts, not real action.
they live their lives in constant guilt.
they live in cities that are only differentiated from other cities by being huge destinations for wealth, then they disavow that wealth while continuing to partake in the lifestyle it provides.
they blame rich people for all the evils of the world while ignoring that they are the 1%.
they prescribe how other people should be living their own lives.
they say things that have no meaning other than to reveal to others that they are members in this very sensitive club of good people.
it's nothing but performative.

Lol got xp'd

I must admit I like Republican President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower. But chances are, you also like Ike. Maybe everybody likes Ike.

xps to sciatica and flopson - yeah, both of those reasons are basically fair enough. I think I inhabit so many circles where these are topics for fierce debate that I took it w/ a completely straight face!

watching grown adults discussing rae sremmurd like it was literature is to behold the end of art

― imago,

links?

I must admit I like Republican President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower. But chances are, you also like Ike. Maybe everybody likes Ike.

― Philip Nunez,

best Cold War president if you look past his championing of covert ops

just watch their latest video, 'set the roof' and listen to the lyrics, they're just the worst people in earth, i fucking despise literally everything they're doing

Lj on rap always sounds like thinly veiled racist uncle 'i like blk ppl...who pull up their pants' lol

There was some self-directed irony in my post (like, as a queer trans woman and a marxist, I realize I occupy a different milieu than some of you), but I do actually hold the positions in it, and they're generally unpopular in radical circles; but as e.mily said, this thread seems "like a dumping ground not a discussion ground," so I'll stay out of the rae sremmurd discourse.

*emil.y, I mean

if hating on vicious misogyny, shit beats and two little soi-disant alpha male fuckers is racist then

never listened to rae sremmurd but i see his/her/their name everywhere

just read the lyrics to set the off and stopped here:

Now let's fill up her head and let's see if she chokes

it's fashionable to call anything (thinly veiled) racism these days (oh my conservative opinion i guess)

Bill O'Reilly also quotes lyrics as if they made sense removed from arrangements.

if hating on vicious misogyny, shit beats and two little soi-disant alpha male fuckers is racist then

― imago,

you just wrote hating "on."

if you are comparing me to bill o reilly you should say so instead of hinting at it

but would you trust them

trust doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with virtue or goodness

I mistrust the needle when it gets too close to my skin.

I would imagine having or not having tattoos has statistically zero bearing on how good of person you are

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, August 17, 2026 6:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Probably, but I would wager that having blackout tattoos might statistically match up to poor impulse control and decision-making skills

The choices are generational. Almost no one I know my age not in the hospitality/service industry has tattoos; almost everyone I know in any profession younger than 35 has them. So I'm not unduly put out.

xpost Like the celebrities with blackouts is a real murderer's row: Machine Gun Kelly, Kat Von D, Chris Daughtry, Davey Havok, Ronnie fuckin Radke...

Also, I definitely can understand people who find heavily tattooed guys and gals attractive, but I can't imagine someone being like... "Yes... a blackout 🤤"

i agree re: blackouts, tbh!

i draw the line at leg tattoos

i have the dancing alien from the end of Spaceballs on my right calf ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

to each their own

I've seen the needle and the damage done
A little bit in everyone (under 35)

Me: Over 50, have tat

funny, i don’t trust people who don’t have any, which i am guessing is actually more ILXors than i would suspect

apropos of the thread this sounds a lot more conservative than an anti-ink declaration, let alone whiney’s fairly uncontroversial one

I don't want it in my search history. What is a blackout tattoo?

A sleeve to cover up other bad tattoos or a tattoo you got when you were blackout drunk?

i have the dancing alien from the end of Spaceballs on my right calf ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

to each their own

lol ok I respect that

xpost

https://loudwire.com/rockers-blackout-tattoos/

Some of these are the same shade of purple that old people get on their hands and feet because of blood pressure issues.

i don't have any tattoos and shouldn't be trusted

The first blackout tat I saw irl belonged to the manager of a commercial printer in Phoenix - big black rectangle covering about 70% of his forearm. In his words "I did a lot of stupid shit when I was in Iraq and don't want to look at it anymore." Feels overly dramatic repeating it out here but I didn't have any reason to doubt him then.

My wife blacked out two armband tattoos that she got when she was young. I can't even remember what she told me they originally were - probably something like rose/thorn or barbed-wire type armbands. But now they are black armbands, and they look reasonable. But the people who have whole-ass blacked out sleeves and stuff? I can't imagine that.

I have one tattoo. About 5 years after I got it, I wished I hadn't and that feeling has only increased with the passage of time, for numerous reasons. Heard about that Danish study on the Science Vs. podcast recently, and that just added another weight to the stack. I originally got my tattoo to celebrate quitting smoking cigarettes, and the idea that I may have traded one type of cancer stick for a different one (so to speak) is grimly ironic.

The skin cancer risk might be that it's harder to notice melanoma on tattoos.

Ngl, pretty much everything gives you cancer. People will pooh-pooh tattoos, an ancient artform of body alteration, while they gobble down preserved meats and food filled with microplastics. It’s just another excuse for people to have negative associations with tattoos, which yea, is a truly conservative and afaic objectively indefensible position. Don’t like em? Don’t get one, and don’t dare tell other that they shouldn’t or can’t.

you are correct in that i weaponize my tattoo-lessness for various fraudulent activities

being tatted is a feeling.

i'm a freak in plenty of other ways that cost me money or the ability to make it. can't catch em all.

i do think it's weird when people get moralistic about face tats. i think they're cool.

if i ever get a motorcycle - there's like a 20% chance of this happening - i'm definitely getting some biker tattoos.

one thing i'm not into is cute or ironic tattoos. or like really small delicate ones. if there was ever a reason to go big, epic and kinda dumb it's with a tattoo. go hard or go home.

more people seem surprised that i don’t have tattoos than about anyone having them, including bankers politicians lawyers etc. in a world where everybody and their mom is tatted up, be a refusenik!

a new generation of the ruling class is tat-friendly, for sure.

In my daily life I only see face tats on frightening white tweakers, but I’m sure we’ll soon enough have, like, a Supreme Court justice with face tats

In 2007 my wife and I had a baby named Ivy, and thought briefly about ivy leaf tattoos.

The problem was finding an equally tattoo-friendly name our second child. I suggested we would have to name our boy Flaming Skull.

you are correct in that i weaponize my tattoo-lessness for various fraudulent activities

A friend of mine (fellow Genx) was disappointed in me when he found out I had a tattoo, because it ruined his plan for me to become an international jewel thief.

Mom would be a good name in that situation

tattoos are awesome, you can make them look really cool, and they make you hotter (unless they suck, cf most musicians with tattoos) (agreed about blackout tats btw, aesthetically repellent, and i’m always like “hm what was under there that made you do that”)

the main thing i learned from the emily wilson/odyssey discourse is that she has AMAZING tattoos

I don't think I've seen a blackout tattoo irl but the photos in that link are all -- at best -- very David Cross as blue man group wannabe

I've admired many people's tattoos, but there just hasn't ever been an image I like enough to make it permanent

In my experience, people who like tattoos are aware of the possibility of regret. It's not a secret that you might change your mind about how important something is to you.

The possibility of regret is priced in, and it is part of the experience.

Many even have the level of zen required to accept that they were cringe when they were 20, and be okay with it showing.

Plus, I really identify with Olaf from Frozen.

haha

That isn't really what I meant though (but I get why you thought it was). I'm not sure how to put it into words, but it's more about having a strong enough attachment to an image (or text or pattern or w/e) to go through with getting the tattoo, not so much fearing future regret but a lack of present enthusiasm. This could be just a convoluted way of saying that I'm not into tattoos tbf

Table otm that life on earth gives you cancer. Also don’t like em don’t get one. Carcinogens are not a reason I would avoid tattoos. I have three. No serious regrets (or regerts) either.
If you don’t like them, I truly don’t care.

i don’t regret any of my eleven tattoos. some of them are dumb— i still love them.

my husband used to be a professional tattoo artist, fwiw. he had some removed awhile ago, but he still has a pretty huge number of them— probably 20+, including two black swans enfolding a ram’s skull on his chest.

No tats but I still have the hole from my single ‘90s earring before the hxc kids started making double ear-piercings normal and you still had to make sure not to get it in “the gay ear”

i got my ears pierced for the first time last year, at age 40! lol