• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    How about what an American Conservative is supposed to be conserving, what the parts of the world with a vaguely educated population calls them:

    Liberal.

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      11 year ago

      Tbh in most of the civilized world ‘liberal’ is not a compliment. American brought tankies, wokies and liberals to the worldwide left, and that is NOT something to be celebrated (or maybe as the CIA’s best psyop)

    • @elscallr
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      11 year ago

      Well no. Conservative, to me, means a federal government that’s pretty much powerless to change anything in the States (10th amendment), that doesn’t invade the privacy of Americans (4th amendment), and that doesn’t go around waging war without declaration.

      That’s not what we have. That’s not what either conservatives or liberals want, so we need a new label.

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          11 year ago

          It’s classical liberalism, but the meaning of the word “liberal” has changed.

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            11 year ago

            I’m not really interested in whatever Newspeak the people actively attacking democracy, education, and our Constitutional rights push, be they Reagan-type neoliberals or modern “conservatives” who sure do use a lot of dogwhistles they hope decent people are too clueless by design to hear until it’s too late.

            When someone tells you they hate socialists and they’re definitely not a liberal, connect the dots.