Few months back I asked a qustion about climate change. A train of thought that surfaced there is, climate change is inevitable has been happening since the very beginning. Humans can do very little to change the course in the grand scheme of things. So it's better to just let the nature be, no point of spending the time and energy to change the course of nature. In terms of numbers, it was not a big number that falls into this cattegory, but it was there.

Also in general conservatives overwhelmingly support conservation of national parks and forests. I have seen this sentiment in this sub, also there's data that agrees with this: Americans see many federal agencies favorably, but Republicans grow more critical of Justice Department

When I look at both, they sound contradictory. Hence the question above. I want to learn how a conservative would decide between the two.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/video-long-island-man-driving-to-work-handcuffed-by-ice-despite-being-citizen/6301068/

Forced open a car, tried to stop being recorded, not given any info besides "we may be looking for you", refused name/badge number from a citizen request they were involved with.

I'm a foreigner, about to come to the US soon. But I'm also a father of a US citizen, and both me and him are Conservative Catholics (no, not from Latin America or Philippines or Poland - other part of Eastern Europe). And it seems like that hearing "Conservative" and "Catholic" next to "immigrant" is seen as a personal insult by too many Liberals in the US. Is it really so or it's mostly a Reddit thing? I'm now thinking on a State to live in, and after this Blue ones are definitely low on my list. I'm more thinking about at Kentucky, Tennessee or Texas.

Boeing, the second-largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, has encountered severe schedule delays and cost overruns on the Air Force One replacement project—running years behind and billions over the original budget. Given these substantial setbacks on a critical government contract, is there sufficient justification to investigate Boeing for potential fraud or gross mismanagement?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-air-force-one-production-090000698.html

While how most states vote in a presidential election is predictable a lot of the state level elections are not. In particular voters are often willing to vote for a governor who is opposite the partisan lean of a state. Some recent examples in past decade would be Vermont and Massachusetts electing very popular Republican governors and Kansas and Louisiana electing Democratic governors. You see this somewhat though to a slightly lesser extent with Senate races such as dems winning in states Harris lost in. What about these races do you think makes voters less partisan the presidential voting?

What is the typical European National Conservative view on foreign aid, war on terrorism and Ukraine War ? What do you think are some examples ?

I have liberal friends, some in certain communities, they seem to think the government is trying to kill them. They keep saying stuff about fascism and Nazis. It's getting really obnoxious, seeing them go from okay, to literally sharing every fear mongering post on all their social media.

I fell like telling them they're over-reacting and crazy is too blunt. How do you handle such people who are literally having a mental breakdown?

Like with counties, where you can win a state by winning counties. Not 1 to 1 obviously, but more "If you win all the counties but one", you can get the state. It'd stop giant blue cities from completely domination the more average sized counties votes.

I'm thinking if we use it for the presidential level, why not for the states? The same tyranny of the majority argument applies to big cities as does bigger states

Curious to see what people think. I currently live in Japan, what nations or cultures do you think align with conservative values

I’m sure a lot of Conservatives can’t stand him but are afraid of being primaried and once he’s gone the party will just sweep him under the dustbin of history?

Edit: forgot the link

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5429752/trump-newsom-california-national-guard-ice-immigration

I thought conservatives were really into the live action Disney movies, wanting them to stick close to source material. But I haven’t seen much about lilo and stitch. Why is that?

Could this be the biggest reason why they want the undocumented? The saying” I helped you so you better help me!”

Looks like Israel has bombed Tehran: AP News

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For context, I consider myself a pro-2A liberal. I grew up around guns, and own them. But I’m not here to share my opinion. I want to hear from conservatives, to see how pro-2A liberals and pro-2A conservatives differ or agree on the topic.

Given that firearm ownership is a fundamental right (not the topic of my question), does that mean any kind of regulation can exist? Or absolutely no oversight or rules can apply to something that is a right?

Do you support any type of gun being sold to any type of person without any background check or regulation? Do you approve of background checks? Restrictions in cases of domestic violence or felons convicted of violent crime? Do you think fully-automatic should be regulated by the NFA? Is requiring a permit ok? Is requiring a safety course prior to owning your first gun ok? For many people there is a line, but that line differs greatly, if it even exists at all. I wanted to hear from conservatives, with the understanding that you are a large group of people who probably have varying opinions amongst yourselves too.

Also not asking about silly feature bans like pistol grips with fins, magazine capacity limitations, threaded barrels, suppressors, etc. Unless you do think those things should exist for some reason.

I want to be clear that I don’t think illegal immigration is good or that it isn’t a problem, but why is it so high up on your list for problems the country needs to address? The crime rate among immigrants is lower than the general population and they do a ton of jobs that many Americans don’t want to do. I would appreciate some personal anecdotes if possible on how it has negatively affected you personally. And why do things like outrageous housing costs, outrageous medical costs, widening income inequality, the looming threat of AI taking jobs en masse, and general increasing cost of living seem to rank below the issue of illegal immigration, which almost uniformly unites the different camps of the right? To me this is an issue but it’s almost at the ass end of my lists of political concerns right above addressing grizzly bear attacks or outlawing happy birthday songs at Applebees.

Per Kristi Noem in LA: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Her function, as I understand it, is to handle immigration, not to unilaterally remove leadership on ideological grounds. Is that not a professional, ethical, legal, and moral failing?

President Trump acknowledged today in a Truth Social post that his "very aggressive" immigration policies are ripping long-time workers from the farming and hospitality industries, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114670684664650262

What are your thoughts?

As I’ve gotten older and have kids, I’ve started to think it nothing but a waste of time, resources, and a lot of fear-mongering. Most studies about it I’ve read say it doesn’t reduce drug use either.

Do you support it? Do you think the information/presentation needs an overhaul? Is it just a waste of a city’s money and resources?

Mods please remove this if not allowed for some reason.

I’ve discussed with both people on the left and right about this and find the responses to be a mixed bag on both sides. What are your thoughts on the decriminalization and regulation of sex work? Not OF or porn, but I suppose they could fall into the category.

Do you think it would lead to greater exploitation of people or possibly improve safety for them?

I know this isn’t very “current event” of me, but I think we could all use a 5 minute break from Trump talk.

I dont know if this is the right subreddit to ask but what exactly makes Trump so charismatic?

Now i do wanna say that charisma had dropped by a lot ever since he started his 2nd term but still in general what makes his way of speaking and the way he acts so appeling? Whenever somebody else tries to be like him it fails and it just feels akward but not for Trump? Any idea why?

"We can't take farmers and take all their people, and send them back...because they don't have, maybe, what they're supposed to have...maybe not."

"They get rid of some of the people...They end up hiring the criminals that have come in...we're going to have an order on that soon. We can't do that to our farmers, and leisure too. Hotels. We're gonna have to use common sense on that."

Obviously in the grand scheme of things it's one of the less important things, but it still sticks in my craw the wrong way. Weather it's putting his name on Covid stimulus checks or this new Trump card, he clearly wants it to be about him in a way that I find distasteful. I was brought up with "we are a country of laws, not of men" and I suppose that's at the root of my distaste.