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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2026 01:55:04 JST Rich Felker

   • witcher

   @drew @witcher "Left-conservative" sounds like a convenient way of writing "nationalist-socialist"... 🙄

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2026 02:07:07 JST Rich Felker

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     • witcher

     @drew @witcher Like seriously. There is a well-established historical term for the political platform of "we support progressive/socialist policies, except we advocate for applying them only to a racial in-group, and being racist xenophobic shits towards everyone else".

     It's called "nationalist-socialist".

     Declining to use that term and inventing a nelogism like "left-conservative" is deliberate whitewashing.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2026 03:05:34 JST Rich Felker

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     • witcher
     • SBP

     @SeiriosB @drew @witcher I think that's accurate, but I think this is the inherent outcome of any attempt to define one's movement as "socialist, but only for the right racial in-group".

     The term "left-conservative" is an unsupported assertion that these contradictory positions can be compatible, and that they're not associated with and headed in the same direction the historical nazi party was.

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     SBP (seiriosb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2026 03:05:35 JST SBP

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     • witcher

     @dalias
     Let's not forget that nazis weren't "socialists" at all.
     https://explaininghistory.org/2025/02/28/addressing-claims-that-hitler-was-a-socialist/
     @drew @witcher