• oce 🐆
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    811 months ago

    Also the middle should be called Tech Centrist or Tech Social Democrat, daring to use the projects from philosophical minorities is not conservative at all.

    • Corgana
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      311 months ago

      Conservatives are always trying to make themselves seem “cool and different” like the middle guy in the meme. Being anticonsumerist, pro-privacy and pro individual liberty is far from actual conservative policy goals but they obviously have to pretend otherwise.

    • gun/linux
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      211 months ago

      Conservative means “not extreme”

      E.g. conservative estimates

      • @a_statistician@lemmy.ml
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        511 months ago

        Words can have multiple meanings - it might be best to find one that doesn’t have the same baggage that conservative has, such as “risk-averse”

      • oce 🐆
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        11 months ago

        Not extreme is rather moderate. Conservative estimate means there’s a tendency to not change what was estimated in the past. Moderate would mean that a small change would be accepted.