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zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tankies are pretty conservative, even if they’ll never admit it.

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  • Zomg@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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    • tortina_original@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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    • WereHacker@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Gorilladrums@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This

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• dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some of us go outside.

  Not me, but some of us.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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

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• teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nope. This place is gated as fuck. You are at the whim of moderators that are one bad day away from mental collapse. As much shit that i see here about reddit, i managed 15 years on reddit without a single ban. Even with their shite mods.

  Here you get banned for pointing out obvious bias.

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