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[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

American here. Who or what is (a) torie?

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

The tories are the conservative party. They are our right-wing, mainstream party. Politically, they are closer to the Democrats than republicans, but that's mostly because America is so extreme right wing compared to most of Europe.

A few years ago, they took a lurch to the right, as well as purging a lot of the less extreme and/or intelligent members. Thankfully, they got throughly bitchslaped out of power recently. We are now into the cleanup phase of their damage (including brexit).

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

We use "Tory/Tories" like you'd use "Yankee"/"Dixie" or "GOP" - it's a nickname. Like the Democrats, the left-leaning major party (Labour) doesn't have a nickname.

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

A member of the conservative party. Their rough equivalent to our Republican party

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