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• Zomg@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This

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