Conservatives are not a monolith.
That said, “Indigenous sovereignty” is very right wing. Welcome!
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exocrinous@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Things I am in favour of conserving:
The environment
Multigenerational family structures
Indigenous sovereignty
Oral traditions
Unions
Technological progress
Trans rights
Historical records
Mythologies and religions
Pagan traditions
The Palestinian people
Ukraine
Civil rights advances
Abandonware and lost media
Indigenous holy sites
Native species
I want to conserve lots of stuff. Am I a conservative?
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
exocrinous@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah I think that the white monarchist government of my country is illegitimate and that ownership of the land should be returned to the indigenous people. If the white people don’t like it they can go back to England
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Cool, cool. How do you feel about Indians and Chinese (as in the subcontinent) in Canada?
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Do you honestly believe it is logical to equate colonialism to immigration?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Indians and some Chinese technically are not immigrants to the UK. If they are part of the commonwealth, they can move to other commonwealth states. It’s similar to Puerto Rico and America but slightly different.
It’s why there are so many Jamaicans in the UK. They are part is the commonwealth
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
conservative is about traditional values and personal liberty. Most of what you list would fit squarely into conservative philosophy.
Abandonware though does not fall into politics. I am a big fan of keeping historical technology around. I may be showing my age but I miss a lot of the software from my youth.
exocrinous@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oh, abandonware is political. The software is lost because distribution rights lied solely with the copyright holder. The abandonware we still have available for distribution today is what was pirated. Obviously, copyright is antithetical to software preservation.
A capitalist argument on the subject of software copyright goes “the right to distribute software is owned by a company or a businessman because they invested in that software. They have the right to control what they own. If they decide the software is no longer available for distribution, it should be lost.”
But a communist argument on the subject of software says “the means of producing wealth by distributing software should belong to everyone. The people should seize software distribution for themselves and use it for the common good. Pirate software to preserve it, it shouldn’t matter that a corporation doesn’t want to sell it anymore.”
As a communist, I believe in the conservative approach to software copyright.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I am in the middle. I believe a company should be able to make money on its software until they abandon it. Once they abandon the software, it should be free to use.
I hate to see technology go away just because someone stopped selling it.
Same with movies, TV shows, etc.
exocrinous@lemm.ee 8 months ago
How are pirates supposed to get copies of software that’s already been abandoned so they can distribute it?