Yes, you’re right about the English definition - talking politics is difficult in a global forum because of these strange idiosyncrasies.

I do try to use the language flatly, avoiding emotive words where possible. It’s interesting you say that “woke” has positive connotations, as I think the Republican🇺🇲 and Conservative🇬🇧 crowds have been using that word as something approaching a slur!

When I say “conservatism” I am strictly referring to the definition in the dictionary or the wiki. I feel like the UK Tory party is definitely following a more anarcho-capitalist expression of the ideology, but their trans exclusionary rhetoric does have the air of “traditional” CoE values around it. In the states, the creeping in of a Christian flavoured version of Sharia law is an interesting development under a lib president, as I would consider this an expression of conservatism.

Personally, I think the connotations that the term conservatism has earned over the last hundred years are well earned, especially as the core values of conservatism seem to be somewhat nebulous. Ultimately we can only judge by the totally flawed implementation of the system that we have - just as we have judged Communism to be a totally unworkable and flawed system by studying the facist regimes of Russia and China as examples - despite the similarities between communism and what the USSR/CCP were/are being almost nil; though this is probably what you were driving at with your closing statement! 😅

Samurai Batman was bad, I can’t see this being anything different.

First of all, ✊

But I think the extermination of humanity would be specioside. Genocide is the extermination of a race and maybe a sub-species if being applied to non-humans.

I feel that’s a lot of countries right now. USA didn’t want Biden, but it was better than Trump. The UK is facing an election where we’ll have to chose between Starmer or Sunak(?).

The system feels broken beyond repair.

11yr r*ddit refugee here.

Franky - nothing short of torching it and rebuilding it from scratch.

Firing Spez is the bare minimum, but there’s no guarantee that the successor won’t be another moron oinker. Federating won’t be profitable (not that R*ddit ever was) and there’s no way that they’ll be making every contributor a shareholder.

There’s no way I’ll be going back, the system will fail again because it’s predicated on a flawed ideology.

Reminder not to trust this view - Google your username with “site:reddit.com” and you’ll no doubt find things that Reddit has chosen not to show you for… Reasons.

Filed a GDPR “right to erasure” request for mine - but I don’t doubt that I’ll be going to the ICO in 28 days because Spez has failed yet again.

Thanks for the thread, gave me a couple more tools to pursue…!

Man, 144p AMVs were peak internet.

Have we got any reps from ReVanced over here yet? It’s not a federated or decentralised approach, but it at least removes the layer of scum enveloping YouTube.

I guess you have to pick your poison.

Personally I can’t think of a single traditional value worth preserving and I’ve got nothing worth conserving - given the pollution of the right that modern day corruption has completed, I’ll stick to the lesser, at least until I can’t dodge advertising anymore.

This whole thing takes me right back to wild west internet days, or the first steps for Blockchain.

It’s exciting to see what the community decides is best, and I’m looking forward to seeing if this takes off or at least becomes as natural to me (and others) as R*ddit was.

A lot of things I need to learn and un-learn.

Thanks for your insight - small comments like this are really helping me get my bearings here. 💚