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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I mean.. they were right.. i am more conservative as i got older. I now put more money in my 401k. I save more. I eat at home more.

However, i still think other races and sexual preferences are human, and billionaires dont need to exist. Social welfare is still a good thing and probably more important than ever.

I did buy a gun though. Target shooting is fun. But, we need a hell of alot more gun control than there is now. If anything, my experience buying a gun made me more scared due to how easy it was.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

I don't think saving money and eating at home are conservative values.

Lots of liberals and progressives do those things, too.

Heck, poor minorities do that to an extreme.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Political conservatism is distinctly NOT about IRL conservatism.

What they conserve is the "social order". They want to preserve the social stratification, not forests.