I am becoming more conservative....we have to return to the old ways...let's go fight Nazis in the streets
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Me too. I'm conserving far more resources now than when I was younger. Heck, when I was a kid, I never recycled; then I became more and more of a recycler, and now I'm big into "reuse is better than recycling!" I fix when I can, rather than tossing and buying new. I'm waaay more conservative than when I was a kid.
And, like you, I'm ready to go out and kill Nazis, just like my granddad's did.
Got any advice on reusing all the pill bottles I have from being broken?
I’ve looked into places that reuse them for pills but there’s like one ministry that takes them and I’d need to ship..
Totally nice bottles without labels and you can’t just take them back to the pharmacy or something…?????? The fuck.
I refuse to put them into recycling, they won’t be.. so I’m just sitting here with 100 or so bottles just.. taking up space…
Give em a good wash and use them as seed containers, whether for single plant species or for mixes
Thanks, that’s a good use :)
I actually already have dozens for that sort of thing (as well as beads and other craft supplies, and screws and other construction-type supplies). I’ve been broken for a hot minute (have taken meds most of my life), so I have so many pill bottles. So many.
But maybe I should go ahead and keep them for my farm. I might need real organization. Fuck. Can I hire someone for that..? Fuck.
this is what i do! it works really well.
Nope. Utterly stupid. Pharmacies aren't allowed to refill bottles you bring in, they're often enormous compared to what they contain, but they're also awkwardly small for any around-the-house use. Even if you superglued a bunch together for an improv screws and nails container, they wouldn't hold many.
I'm sure someone's found a use for those, but I think for the most part it's just shit that's going to end up in our brains eventually.
SLPT: get prescribed bigger pills. My twice a day horse pills come in an impressively large bottle.
Have to agree all around.
Intensely frustrating.
Small screws/nails/ikea bits, seeds, extra pin-backs or pushpins when the shit container they come in inevitably breaks, weed, q-tips, sewing kits, some vets/humane societies, art AKA makin Injection Molded Robots
You could put a small cylinder in there.
Left as a kid, then drifted to center. On track to that point. But then, slow burn left from 40 years old through early 50s, and then a hard sprint left. Conservatives when I was young seemed like bitter dried up out of touch assholes most of the time, and as I've become older I've discovered they are also bigoted racist misogynist assholes who will suck off any leader who promises to hurt the right people for them.
I don't think I could possibly live long enough to want to associate myself with those fuckers.
Similar path, but with a more classical libertarian bent (not the bullshit republican that lives weed and is fixated age of consent stuff thankfully). Hard left turn after being disengaged third party about 10 years ago.
Am now old and get more radicalized by the day.
Hear hear
I've only gotten more progressive as time goes on because of all [gestures vaguely] this.
I was libertarian in my 20s.
Now I'm 40 and –
ARISE, YE WORKERS FROM YOUR SLUMBER...
You have nothing to lose but your chains!
I'm gonna be 40 next month and I just keep moving further into anarchism.
Yeah! It is super interesting!
Hand signals and direct voting.
Super hard to filter out the BS though.
I think the prevailing idea at the time was that you would become more conservative as you accumulated wealth and property, and while I can't confirm or deny that I would be more conservative if I were as wealthy as my parents were when they were my age, I can attest that the accumulation of wealth and property on which this notion is predicated has not happened for myself and my peers.
Is it any wonder, when told that we will own nothing and be happy by people who have never worked a day in their lives, that we want to burn it all down and piss on the ashes of those who oppress us?
I'm a former Trump supporter. I will never support Republicans or MAGA ever again after all they've done. So I've aged but I've become more progressive and open minded, not more conservative.
What changed your mind?
It was Trump's mishandling of the pandemic that got me started questing things, the rise of the anti-vax among his supporters and the violence that happened after the election. Then over the four years I started to change my mind about more and more things and repeatably realized I was wrong.
I'm 46; the older I've gotten the more socialist I've become.
People don't become conservative as they age, they become conservative as they accumulate wealth which in the past has typically correlated with age. Once they have wealth they want to protect it.
Nowadays people don't accumulate wealth as easily so it takes longer before they develop more conservative views if at all.
It's an "I got mine, screw everyone else" tendency.
I think i became more liberal because im no longer an uneducated dumb ass teenager edgelord.
I am still what'd I'd consider liberal but will admit I've gotten a bit annoyed with the Democratic party in recent years.
They're just so goddamn ineffectual. No way I'd vote for the other side, but holy shit can they please stop it with the unforced errors? Just go back to courting the working class with economics and then lobster them into social change.
“Don’t assume I’ll follow you on your vile path to moral decadence.”
They will get out of our swamp or else.
Bespoke: You'll become more Druid when you're older.