• zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Are there any conservatives here? I’ve never seen a more left biased echo chamber than Lemmy.

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        16 days ago

        Yeah I kinda have started to understand the whole horseshoe theory thing.

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        16 days ago

        In what meaning of the word? They seem to not favour small government and deregulated economy.

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          I wouldn’t view small government as conservative tbh, but I’m not from the US.

          Ultimately it’s a relative term, relative to the status quo. Wikipedia defines it as

          preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values

          Seems the word tankies is used for authoritarian socialists/communists. I personally would view authoritarianism as a rather conservative thing.

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          So that is what conservatism is about?

          I am sorry to inform you that there isn’t a conservative party in any country on this planet.

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          It’s because tankie means anything the person who uses the word doesn’t like about leftists.

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        You take that back. I’ll never leave the basement.

        (I post from a state that for the large part, doesn’t have basements.)