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minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up40·edit-216 hours agoThe Tankies are pretty conservative, even if they’ll never admit it.
minus-squareZomg@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·16 hours agoYeah I kinda have started to understand the whole horseshoe theory thing.
minus-squarezxqwas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·16 hours agoIn what meaning of the word? They seem to not favour small government and deregulated economy.
minus-squareBaŝto@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·13 hours agoI 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.
minus-squaretortina_original@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·12 hours agoSo 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.
minus-squareWereHacker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·14 hours agoIt’s because tankie means anything the person who uses the word doesn’t like about leftists.
The Tankies are pretty conservative, even if they’ll never admit it.
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Yeah I kinda have started to understand the whole horseshoe theory thing.
In what meaning of the word? They seem to not favour small government and deregulated economy.
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
Seems the word tankies is used for authoritarian socialists/communists. I personally would view authoritarianism as a rather conservative thing.
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.
It’s because tankie means anything the person who uses the word doesn’t like about leftists.