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conservative

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domai…
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

(especially, US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain .

During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domai…
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  • “These people claim to be fiscally conservative.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Brussels Prepares a Hate-the-Rich Tax Package ━ The European Conservative https://www.europesays.com/be/14203/ Sometimes, I wonder if politicians who consistently make the wrong decisions do so on purpose. After reading the…”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “it sucks that one of my favorite things is dominated by cis guys in their 50's with the most conservative views ever despite the progressiveness of the product they claim to love”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “It's actually 75 to 90 but the good Conservative Christians are always going to support a pedophile adjudicated rapist traitor.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “No matter what he does, when he looks in the mirror, he's still black outside. Somehow he thinks these Christian nationalists consider him one of them. Just like every black conservative, he's being used as a shield to hide their racism.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK

(politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.

If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those inte…
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  • “So much of what Labour are doing was on the Conservative's agenda. Hunt's financial deregulation, May's hostile environment, anti-protest, anti-welfare legislation, Truss Freeports. I suspect they'd be the loudest voices complaining had Sunak won.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “What leads you to believe I care? If he wants to be a burden on the taxpayer because he has T-2 diabetes and related heart problems that’s his choice. I thought you conservative types were all about free speech…? 🤭”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “So, the marching women didn't really win at all, since this reform in 2023-25 was blocked by the rural, more conservative party in the government - PSL. Maybe they'll win in 2030. Time will tell.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “There's a number of conservative or centrist libs trying to run as progressives even though they aren't and never were?! It's baffling they think people can't just do a google search on them...”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Thank you for sharing. To my conservative mind most of them are hideous.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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