• nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Actually maybe I am a conservative - I do want to conserve this biosphere, rather than destroying it through the radical increase in carbon burn in the last few hundred years

    That’s conservationism, not conservatism. Conservatism is about establishing and enforcing hierarchies of social power.

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      1 year ago

      It was a joke :). I was playing on the dictionary definition of (little C) conservatives, in contrast to (big C) Conservatives

      Modern Conservatives area actually radicals, and they unfairly leave actual conservatives (who want stability or careful change) with no representation

      • meyotch@slrpnk.net
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        1 year ago

        Then those actual conservatives need to do the hard work and actually rein in their wacko cousins.