• NotAnOnionAtAll@feddit.org
      11·
      4 months ago

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

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 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
        51·
        3 months ago

        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.