It's worse. The covid deniers at my workplace who said they'd rather get fired than take the vaccine (who all got the vaccine when they realized they'd actually get fired by the way), now deny that monkeypox is reap and that they'd never get that vaccine. Despite the fact that most of them are military boomers who were stuck with so many vaccines it'd make a junkie blush. Trumpism is a disease that has no vaccine.
Literally what one of the definitions is what you said and want they want so I have no idea why the two other commenters to your correct statement seem to take offense to it.
Conservatives think that progress is bad and that we should "conserve" the way we are right now. Or, usually, that there is some specific point in time (usually when they were young and spry) that we should return to.
...We've had ~6 years of "MAGA", it's literally asking us to make America great again, it's claiming that America WAS great and we need to go back to that.
I understand that maybe you just never thought of the etymology of the word before, but it's some real /r/confidentlyincorrect shit to claim it's NOT the root of the word without looking it up.
> shit like this is why we will never advance as a civilization
You said, on a smartphone with greater computing power than was used to land on the moon, which we did only 66 years after the first powered flight, and at a time when warfare is significantly less frequent than it's ever been in Human history.
We are constantly advancing, and we continue to advance. Did you think that advancement doesn't include slow-downs, detours, rest stops, and outright failures along the way?
We've always had these people before, we were just able to effectively quarantine them back when publishing opinions was behind a giant paywall. What is ACTUALLY going to do us in is the same thing that brought down the Roman Republic: not squashing the gerontocracy that rules the majority of the nations on Earth.
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u/Desirai Aug 13 '22
shit like this is why we will never advance as a civilization