A place for conservatives
A place for conservatives
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Maybe not the right place to ask this, but why are American conservatives called conservatives? Where I live, in one of the EU countries, they would be considered extremists and the Democrats would be considered right wing.
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Overton window got yeeted so far to the right it ended up hitting 88mph and travelling back to 1930s germany
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Man, it hits so hard because it's true.
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The right and left are subjective terms. It really depends where you live and people will be more or less left/right.
As a Canadian I think the American conservatives are right religious nuts rather than just right extremist.
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I think the American conservatives are right religious nuts rather than just right extremist.
Both are true.
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Well that's not how that works.
Right wing means you believe that some people are naturally better than others.
Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable,[1][2][3] typically supporting this position in favour of conservatism, natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, or tradition.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences[11][12] or competition in market economies.
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At least in Canada, most people I know think Liberal = anything left, Conservative = anything right. Maybe Americans are the same.
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Basically. Our Overton window is fucked thanks to the Nazis in power. Both current and historical.
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why are American conservatives called conservatives?
For a full depth, non-lemmy-grade answer, a wikipedia article on US political ideologies explains the history & meanings.
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That is exactly American brainwashing. You are correct.
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It comes down to how American conservatives are extremely hostile to any kind of change whatsoever. In more extreme cases, like MAGA, QAnon, TeaParty, etc. that hostility towards change can lead to fear, which can lead to things like violence, terrorism, hate groups, etc. In short, they are called conservatives because they wish above all else to "conserve" the status quo (as they see it), that often being racism, sexism, slavery, xenophobia, hate groups, misogyny, white supremacy, Christian fascism, etc.
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American "conservatives" are anything but conservative.
They're hyper liberal. They're ripping up precedent left and right to institute how the think things "should be" as if it's 250 years ago. The billionaires want slavery. They want to eradicate all minorities and anybody who isn't white. They don't have the support to do all of this all at once, so they're starting with the people who will never support them first. Take away the support of the opposition and more and more unpopular actions can be taken to push things towards an oligarch controlled white christian nationalist organization.
They're spending money like crazy but only in ways that support them politically. They're trying to drive out anything that is remotely left ideologically until the middle is the left, and then they're next.
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And denying climate change as it would require their thinking and doing to change. They hate that the most.
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Because they want to go back to unchallenged white American male rule? It's a very selective and niche time period they want to conserve.
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That is not a question and you know it isn't
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You’re 100% right but we repealed the fairness doctrine in 1987, and ever since that, we’ve had politicized information cycles. Republicans in 1987 knew they’d have to lie to continue holding power; but they also have been enshitifying education too. In turn, a lot of people are just simply undereducated and comforted by their echo chambers. Have that happen for 40 years. Here we are.
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The name is inherently nonsense. They aren’t “conserving” anything.
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They are regressives
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uppity_negress
Oh wow that's quite the username
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Why would anybody use Threads? I made an account on there just to see what it's about and it was so shitty that I ended up deleting it a couple of hours later. Most of the content is just ragebait, political misinformation, and businesses/influencers trying to shill something. For every 10 posts you might get 1 or 2 that don't fall in these categories. It's just bad, and not in a good way.
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Why would anybody use Threads?
Let's say you were a Bitcoin spammer who wanted to appeal to a higher quality of bullshit techbro crowd.
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She isn't wrong.
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Jesus was definitely a libertarian and definitely not a conservative. Oh, except for inside a temple on markets day.
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These people do not care about Jesus lol
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Yeah. Jesus would never recognize these people as true Christians. He would be looking for cameras and shit thinking someone was trying to punk him. Lol
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Unfortunately, the Epstein Files are full of Liberals, too.
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Liberals aren't trying to bury those files, perverting justice, and destroying a country in the process. Jeebus but I'm starting to loathe fence sitters and "both siders" !
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yeah this aint exactly the burn they think it is
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Are these liberals in the room with us now?
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Retirement homes
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I've been on Threads a few times and I never see anything but magat asses spewing bullshit!
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That's literally all I see on X, but I don't think I've ever seen one even mildly conservative acting or looking person on Threads. Weird. Algorithms, maaaan.
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She could try truth social... or x, at this point.
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Also Grindr
Oh fa sho.
Fuck you and your liberal homophobia
I mean, there have been at least three documented instances where their little "gatherings" have put extreme strain on Grindr servers, one time knocking the server offline completely. It's not homophobic to point out a documented fact.
How does saying conservatives use Grindr make somebody a liberal? I swear, the word has lost all meaning on Lemmy xD
Stats don't lie and there are a lot of closeted Republicans on Grindr
Here, take my username, it suits you better.
Go be a fucking idiot somewhere else
It fills me with joy to see this stupid comment eviscerated.
What? I'm gay and I say this. Republicans are on Grindr, and it's fucking gross. Ew, Republicans.
Awww, look at the triggered little snowflake! How cute!
Happy cake day, and agreed
Ok, snowflake.