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I give it two weeks before this reversal, too, is reversed, and then two more weeks until that reversed reversal is reversed
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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Someone elsewhere on lemmy made the argument that conservatives essentially live in the eternal now. Any position is at that moment evaluated on if it's good for them/their-group or not. Past responses don't matter. Internal consistency doesn't matter. It's just "is this good for me right now?"
They're trash people, essentially.
You shouldnt make decisions just to make sure your past decisions remain consistent. You aren't required to defend past responses either, people change often.
You shouldn't do the George W Bush "Believe the same thing on Monday as Wednesday, no matter what happens Tuesday" thing, no. But you should ideally have some underlying belief system that's more sophisticated than "What is best for me right now?"
The whole "the only moral abortion is my abortion" thing is understandable but also kind of reprehensible. People will make a big stink about how abortion is murder, only horrible people do it because they suck at life. And then they have a pregnancy, and they're like "oh well this is different." If you're not going to reconcile those, you're shit. You can say "I was wrong, and the people I was shitting on were in positions like I am now. I didn't understand, and now I do. I was wrong."
You're not required by cosmic forces to defend past beliefs, but a decent person can acknowledge where and why they changed.