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Conservatives We Respect
Samuel Perry
Eli Perez
Redpill me on Burke's theories. I know he's supposed to be the father of modern conservatism but what does that mean exactly?
Ian Kelly
His most famous work is Reflections on The Revolution in France (attached)
Burke was famously sympathetic to the American revolution, so when the French Revolution rolled around, people were eager to hear his take on it. tl;dr, he thought it was unjustified and going to end badly. Five months after the storming of the Bastille, Burke basically called that the whole affair was going end up as a bloody shit show, and get coopted by some opportunistic and tyrannical general.
Burkean thought experienced a renaissance in America during the 1950s, partially because Reflections could easily be reread as a Paleo-Conservative and anti-marxist manifesto. iirc Goldwater quoted Burke in his (ghostwritten) book. That might have been how 'father of modern conservatism' arose.
Isaiah Scott
pat buchanan vividly supported american involvement in nicaragua, grenada and el salvador
fuck that guy
Robert Barnes
Daphne Caruana Galizia (journalist in the panama papers leaks) was killed by a car bomb in malta after she unearthed information about the maltese pm and his connections in offshore accounts which were used to launder money used from illegal profits from selling Maltese passports to people linked to the Azerbaijani govt.
Micheal Hastings (american journalist) was killed in a car accident early in the morning in west los angeles. this was a journalist who had a history of exposing higher ups. his career started with him being engaged to Air America(CIA owned) spokeswoman andrea parhamovich who then worked for the NDI (us govt think tank) while she was tragically killed when her convoy was rushed by militants. he later wrote a book about it. but he put himself on the map when wrote a profile of general and nato top man in Afghanistan Stanley McCrystal. nothing major just comments from many in his team about the state of their mission and their command. it got McCrystal FIRED and this was also later turned into a book. Hastings reported many feather ruffling bylines, the department of homeland security was keeping track of the occupy wall street movement, bo bergdhal was a paria in the pentagon, and that in may of 2013 he was done with obamas foreign policy. this was somewhat of a big deal since he had close ties to many high up in the obama circle (jay carney) and many enemies ( rahm, reines).
less than 2 months later he would be dead. counter terrorism experts have claimed it looks like a automobile cyber attack, and he emailed coworkers the day before that he was quote "onto a big story", that he needed to "go off the radar" and that he believed the fbi was investigating him. a few hours before the crash he contacted his lawyer and his widow said that he was investigating something involving cia director john brennan .
this is just in the past few years of actual high profile journalists, let alone this has happened for decades with Gary Webb (revealed contra drug running with the cia and using the profits to fund arm sales and flooding it into south central LA and other american ghettos) who had a "suicide", and David Kelly the welsh chemical weapons expert ( challenged the iraq war WMD dossier and went to journalists abbout it and was called into parliment for a hearing were he said the whole weapon facilities shit was BS) who had a" suicide" two days later
Xavier Ward
This makes me hate him even more, tbh.
Aaron Butler
If we can apply the term conservative to Aristotle, then he's my favorite conservative thinker. His influence is just unavoidable, even in Marx.
Logan Lee
Ryder Phillips
Luke Hall
As much of a capitalist vulture as Romney is, he's the only politician I know of to have the balls to suggest banning children from the internet.