Yserbius: First of all, I apologize for saying your prior posts have been left-leaning. I was confusing you with another poster.
“Just cheerleading for Trump.”
I said the Gulf of Mexico renaming was stupid and confided in you that I’ve been boxed out of the conservative side altogether due to my lack of support for Trump, but ok…
“If you want to be technical Mt. McKinley was referred to as Denali for longer”
The natives are free to keep using their terms, but the European/American colonists renamed everything. It’s not worth opening the can of worms of reverting everything to their Native American names.
“How many people died because of the Silk Road gun and drug market?”
The widely reported number is six, but so what? If six people die from drugs they purchased in a Wal Mart parking lot, did Wal Mart commit a crime? If people chose to buy drugs and have overdoses, they have nobody to blame but themselves.
“He ran a dark web drug, child exploitation”
Child exploitation was forbidden on the Silk Road. If you’re going to say people did so anyway, you could say that about anything.
“How else would you describe him?”
At best, a web designer, at worst a drug dealer. The actual drug dealers that used his site only got 3-4 years. Non-violent drug dealers don’t get multiple life sentences. It’s very Trumpist of you to think that all drug dealers should be treated like serial killers.
“I am a tad liberal leaning, but I hate admitting to it”
You shouldn’t. Don’t alter the way you identify yourself just because the people around you are too immature to react to it without making crazy straw man arguments that you’re a communist.
“I just think that a lot of what Trump is doing falls way outside the norms of conservative politics”
I would tend to agree, but why should we get a monopoly on the definition of conservatism? If conservatism in 2025 means Trumpism, then we need to stop identifying as conservatives rather than expecting everyone else to change to fit our norms.