• NeuromancerM
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      -53 months ago

      Lincoln was a conservative himself. He described himself as a conservative and historians Label him as one. In the speech you cited, he was speaking as a conservative to other conservatives.

      Democrats owned slaves. Democrats still want to own slaves.

      • Zeppo
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        63 months ago

        Ending slavery is not a conservative position by definition. Conservatism means continuing the system that is currently in place and accepted.

        • NeuromancerM
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          -43 months ago

          Ending slavery is a conservative value. Since we believe all men are equal, slavery by default insults that position.

          • Zeppo
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            13 months ago

            Are you sure you’re a conservative? Most conservative views are insulting. But back in real life, it was a deeply ingrained institution at the time.

            • NeuromancerM
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              -23 months ago

              I am very conservative. The Republican party was started to end slavery. Lincoln was a conservative. Before joining the Republican Party he was conservative Whig. Republicans have always stood up for freedom and individual rights. In the 80’s we picked up the religious right which skewed some stances but I’m not part of the religious right.

              • Zeppo
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                23 months ago

                I don’t think there’s much use in explaining this, but you don’t seem to have a very good grasp of history. Party names are not the key to ideology, and it’s baffling that people think they can compare politics from 180 and 120 years ago using current concepts. If you think modern Republicans are the party of Lincoln, let’s see… who would we see flying Confederate flags currently?

                  • Zeppo
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                    13 months ago

                    Kind of a weird dodge… I’ll just answer the rhetorical question for you. So, people who currently fly confederate flags are uniformly Republican and identify as conservative.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    Good.point.

                    This is the same reason I don’t trust any Italians from Rome. Those Romans are always going around waging wars of conquest, demanding tributes, look what they did to Carthage! I still hold them dang Romans responsible for all those crucifixions. Horrible!

                    And don’t even get me started on those Hittites! Constantly conquering people, they had slaves too! Just as bad as the democrats if not worse. Whenever I meet an Assyrian I like to personally thank them for taking care of those Hittite bastards.

          • @Zombiepirate
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            53 months ago

            Your profile says you’re a conservative and a fascist? @neuromancer said before they’re incompatible, and he’s a conservative.

            He also says Lincoln was a conservative.

            Why do you both say the opposite? Is conservatism so meaningless that such fundamental differences are just ignored?

            Why do you think conservatives deny that fascists are part of their movement when they clearly are?

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              @Zombiepirate

              Fascists are hybrids. Fascism is corporatism, i.e. state control through corporations.

              What does my profile say?

              “Furthest Right: raging realism plus transcendental reverence. I write at https://www.amerika.org/ and https://www.deathmetal.org/ about topics such as nihilism, ecofascism, paganism, eugenics, capitalism, perennialism, conservatism, natural selection, and of course death metal.”

              Ecofascism is a separate movement. You read your Linkola and Kaczynski?

              Full readout here:
              https://annihilation.social/notice/AgRr091ay4W0HCTtcu

              Lincoln was a radical. He, too, was a hybrid, in that he came from the Anglo tradition but was outside of it as a “radical.”

              He was a progressive of his age. He was closer to Marx than Washington.

              • @Zombiepirate
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                So you’re saying that fascists and conservatives work to similar ends?

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                  @Zombiepirate

                  The most conservative society:

                  * Absolute monarchy
                  * Ethno-nationalist
                  * Free market based
                  * Caste system
                  * Culture/religion united

                  Like anything else, there are degrees of conservatism.

                  Some conservatives, like GWB, are barely conservative.

                  • @Zombiepirate
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                    You’re wanting the US to be an ethnostate again then?

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                  @Zombiepirate

                  Fascists still believe in the State; conservatives are free market devotees but ambivalent if not hostile to the State.

                  • @Zombiepirate
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                    Not all conservatives are free market devotees; that’s a modern twist that is not universal.

                    But you agree that they work to the same ends?

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              @Zombiepirate

              As to what conservatism is, I write about that a lot:

              https://www.amerika.org/

              It is a focus on order beyond the individual and the social group; we call it realism, and it tends to favor historically-proven results and a case-by-case basis instead of ideological categorical containers.

              About ten thousand people in North America can successfully parse that sentence.

        • NeuromancerM
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          I get you don’t read well but see how Lincoln uses the word we. It’s including himself. Lincoln was a conservative. He was a Republican.

          Lincoln was not a progressive.