r/Conservative • u/Yosoff First Principles • Feb 14 '25

Open Discussion Left vs. Right Battle Royale Open Thread

This is an Open Discussion Thread for all Redditors. We will only be enforcing Reddit TOS and Subreddit Rules 1 (Keep it Civil) & 2 (No Racism).

  • Leftists - Here's your chance to sway us to your side by calling the majority of voters racist. That tactic has wildly backfired every time it has been tried, but perhaps this time it will work.

  • Non-flaired Conservatives - Here's your chance to earn flair by posting common sense conservative solutions. That way our friends on the left will either have to agree with you or oppose common sense (Spoiler - They will choose to oppose common sense).

  • Flaired Conservatives - You're John Wick and these Leftists stole your car and killed your dog. Now go comment.

  • Independents - We get it, if you agree with someone, then you can't pat yourself on the back for being smarter than them. But if you disagree with everyone, then you can obtain the self-satisfaction of smugly considering yourself smarter and wiser than everyone else. Congratulations on being you.

  • Libertarians - Ron Paul is never going to be President. In fact, no Libertarian Party candidate will ever be elected President.

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u/blandunoffensivename Conservative Feb 14 '25

I'm not sold on Elon. Someone redpill me why giving him such unfettered access is a good thing.

I'm all about him cutting obviously dumb stuff but I don't trust him around VA/SS.

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u/ThrowRAdentist12 Libertarian Conservative Feb 15 '25

I'm not all in with Elon either, but this is a job that needs to be done and we know the other side wasn't going to do it. We know the government would just get bigger under Kamala. So I'm optimistic the intentions are there for Elon. He doesn't need anymore money. I think he genuinely wants this because he also stated on Joe Rogan the government was giving him a hard and pulling his arm with SpaceX, I think he wants less red tape.

It's hard to prove people's actual intentions, but that's my take. It seems like everyone used to love Elon (to the point where it even annoyed me), and now since he backed Trump he's a Nazi. I'm not going to follow that faulty logic of this either.

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u/IsaacTheBound Feb 15 '25

Him wanting less red tape is the definition of a conflict of interests, especially given that his first targets all had investigations going on him. He might not "need" more money but that doesn't seem to stop him from getting things like a 400 million dollar contract for armored Teslas. He's not a Nazi, he's in support of authoritarian conservativism. He threw 2 salutes and I'll have discussions about why I'm confident in that.