• NotAnOnionAtAll@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Conserve what? Certainly not the environment, human rights, common decency or democratic traditions. So, what else?

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      2 months ago

      Hear, hear! Maybe conserve an oppressive power structure, conserve plans to harm humanity world-wide or conserve a backwards trajectory to a brutal, slave-based economy.

    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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      For the elites: conserve their hierarchy and the structures that enable the gradual accumulation of power in the hands of the few.

      For the rest: conserve their place in the hierarchy and the comfort of the familiar.