I am so sick of the word conservative. It's not conservative, it's fucking regressive. It's back sliding our society into a world that never really existed in the first place.

Lemmy is pretty damn close to that there's only like five conservatives but they are all the same person.

I just look fondly back on the times when there was a slightly higher barrier-to-entry to those that wanted to access and use the internet.

... can... can we go there?

It's funny cuz people actually think this way, and don't realize what a self-own it is.

Someone added that to the PragerU post? Because I can't imagine PragerU posting a Utopian image with that text. PragerU are worse than Fox "Newz".

How could you ban political speech without some kind of Act under the guise of keeping Kids Safe Online?

I'm fine with conservative media in theory, but the problem with conservative media these days is just the constant blatant lying.

I think there's definitely room for conservative voices, like:

• Conserving the environment.
• Putting checks and balances on AI and technology in general
• Maintaining non-harmful cultural traditions (Morris Dancing is cringe, but it should still be around)
• Promoting an emphasis on local community and family rather than individualism fuelling the capitalist system

Even traditions that have been harmful can be recontextualised and maintained and used as a means of teaching, rather than thrown out entirely in the name of progress. People are so drawn to places like Japan (at least partially) because they maintain their traditions and seek to conserve what they have rather than constantly push forward and bulldoze everything old because it's old. Obviously not everyone believes in the traditions, but they keep them anyway.

Nowadays though? Conservatives have basically tossed all of that in favor of allowing capital to completely bulldoze over traditions and then blaming the ensuing misery on the gays.

Imagine a world where news was balanced and progressives had equal media representation.

Have we tried putting them on a boat and sending on to find the next continent? If we did that, I might start celebrating Columbus day!

looks like cool discussion downwind but why should we even argue about what is "conservative"

you're interested in conserving resources? you got some canned food in your cubbard? you tried to teach your kid whatever bullshit you thought was important from your folks? BOOM you're a Filthy Conservative.