In what meaning of the word? They seem to not favour small government and deregulated economy.
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoTankies are pretty conservative, even if they’ll never admit it.
zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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.
tortina_original@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
WereHacker@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s because tankie means anything the person who uses the word doesn’t like about leftists.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This
Zomg@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I kinda have started to understand the whole horseshoe theory thing.