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To my knowledge, the concept of "conservatism" is the will to conserve, preserve past values that are seen as superior. While I don't agree with this either, this community has almost exclusively posts about fearing new things and trying to show them as evil. Evil migrants, evil new generations, evil new sexualities, whatever.

I do not see any "values" in it, only fear. Rejecting migrants is not based on morals or values that are rational, but on fear. Same for the rest. Which leads to the question, what is the point of this community? It does not lead to debate, people calling it out as fascism on one side (which is quite justified as the root ideas are seemingly identical) and the other side just saying that it's wrong and that's it. There's no debate of values, as there are no values to debate about.

I do not agree with the concept of conservatism, and I couldn't care less if this place is forever doomed to be downvoted in oblivion. But if you actually want to do something else than fear-mongering, even if you insist on talking about conservatism, then maybe it would be a good idea to refocus the community on actual ideas, and not the typical far-right speeches of hatred and fear that already flood a lot of media.

Of course I believe that it would be better to reconsider opinions that basically encourage the worst of humanity; but even aside from that, there is more to do than to replace every possibility of a conversation with the (stereo)typical "immigrants bad, jesus good, gays evil" speech.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

Don't forget that conservatism exclusively punches left.

Sure there are Nazis marching alongside conservatives, but the real enemies are the people who say "maybe we shouldn't be the only developed country where people routinely bankrupt their life savings to pay for healthcare."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Our side may support Nazis but at least we keep the wrong people from being happy...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What's weird is I thought I left a comment giving you an official warning.

Well, here it is.

Rule 3, bad faith. Official warning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bad faith? Like censoring users who don't support the echo chamber?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Please read the sidebar. Also the pinned post might help clarify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fuck off with your censorship bootlicker

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rule 1 Abusive Language, Rule 3 Bad faith. 1 day ban.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rule 4 mods should jump off cliffs.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Well, you saw the warning. Rule 1, Abusive Language. 1 day ban.

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