South Korea’s ousted president belongs to a long line of troubled leaders https://www.byteseu.com/895108/ #120476487 #Article #bribery #conservatism #Corruption #Courts #GeneralNews #Impeachment #LawAndOrder #LegalProceedings #Politics #Scandals #SouthKorea #WorldNews

Yoon Suk Yeol had a rapid rise in South Korean politics before an abrupt downfall https://www.byteseu.com/894297/ #conservatism #Courts #Elections #ForcedLabor #FumioKishida #GeneralNews #Impeachment #Indictments #JoeBiden #KimKeonHee #LeeJaeMyung #LegalProceedings #MoonJaeIn #ParkGeunHye #Politics #RebellionsAndUprisings #Scandals #Seoul #SouthKorea #SouthKoreaGovernment #U.S.DemocraticParty #WorldNews #YoonSukYeol

When you deal with #conservatism, deal through #compassion not rage.

”Daddy’s back!” is not directed towards you, but their own willingness to submit themselves.

Reserve your anger to be deployed as a symbol of missed justice. You’ll need to do plenty of that so use it sparingly!

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/05/nazi-mind "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy" - Elon Musk. Lack of empathy was a common personality trait of Nazi leaders. Psychologist of the Nazi mind
As the "Nuremberg psychologist," Gustave Gilbert had unfettered access to Hitler's leading henchmen.
#history #fascism #conservatism #meme #doge #ice

I see people on social media still referring to Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their supporters as "conservatives", but their "bull in a china shop" behaviour over the last couple of months shows that they are anything but conservatives. Right-wing radicals, yes. Conservatives, no.

In the link G.K. Chesterton explains why.

https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/
#tradition #conservatism #radicalism #extremism

Our Shared Future
Upholding Canadian Values in the 2025 Federal Election

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmrrFxNnX6YhDsgo_44Roq-Qgdjd3UxueaGTqIAYcVw/edit?usp=sharing

CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate

#CalPol #CanadaVotes #2025CdnElection #democracy #CanadianValues #diversity #multiculturalism
#ElbowsUp #never51
#populism #conservatism #housing #FoodSecurity #inflation #unions #solidarity

As this article suggests, these are difficult days for conservatives trying to maintain some semblance of political and intellectual integrity.

Conservatives in the USA have always had the difficulty of coming to terms with their beloved country being birthed in a revolutionary war in which their side was intoxicated by lines such as this from Tom Paine:

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

It's difficult to find a sentiment more antithetical to conservatism than this!

Now I know that John Adams thought that Paine was spouting dangerous nonsense, but to deny the significance of the thinking represented by "Common Sense" for the American Revolution is to deny history.

British conservatives though - why do they feel they have to dance to Trump's tune? The author offers a suggestion in the antepenultimate paragraph, but I'm sure much more can be said on the matter.

I should imagine some old school Canadian Tories must be feeling horribly betrayed...

#Conservatism #USPolitics #UKPolitics #CanadianPolitics #ThomasPaine

https://www.newstatesman.com/conservatism/2025/03/conservatism-is-dead

**Reappraising a controversial figure: Ross Carroll’s Edmund Burke**

Morien Robertson

“_Burke was not just a thinker and writer, but a constantly active politician and agitator, who pushed for a variety of causes that might be called progressive, and admonished the failings of the British elite, particularly with regards to the colonial administration in India._”

https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/03/24/reappraising-a-controversial-figure-ross-carrolls-edmund-burke/.

#Conservatism #EdmundBurke #Nonfiction #Politics #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term - President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/business/trump-misinformation-false-claims.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #presidentialelectionof2024 #conservatism(uspolitics) #rumorsandmisinformation #rollinsbrooke(1972-) #kennedyrobertfjr #leavittkaroline #trumpdonaldj #foreignaid #muskelon #condoms

A case for the value of conservatism in preservation of pluralistic democracy in the current United States:

https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/405324/case-for-conservatism-trump-elon-musk

[Canada] Report: Effect of transphobic online hate on organizations, employees
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/new-report-takes-an-important-look-at-the-effects-of-transphobic-online-hate-on-organizations-and-their-employees-271900

* Open Digital Literacy & Access Network, https://odlan.ca
* Wisdom2Action, https://wisdom2action.org
* what queer organizations can do to address/mitigate online hate

Digital Resilience: Addressing Rise of Transphobic Online Hate thru Community-Based Research
https://search.open.canada.ca/grants/record/pch,016-2023-2024-Q4-1363835,current