No I think you misunderstood. I agree with your idealogy. But to talk shit about liberals, when we are liberals who actually lean left (unlike Democrats who are moderates in disguise), well that's just plain dumb. It makes you sound like a Trumpanzee.
I'm a liberal, and I'm also a proud socialist. And so are you.
Edit: Y'all are missing the point. There's no reason for all this infighting. Communist, Socialist, Liberal, or whatever; we need to stop arguing over the differences and band together to stop the rise of Fascism. Some of these replies make me worried that a lot of you will vote for 3rd parties in the next election and effectively hand the votes over to Trump. Please don't do that.
No, we're not liberals, we're communists. We talk shit about and dunk on liberals because we fundamentally disagree and take issue with the entire ideology. We take issue with being called liberals, because we're not.
Liberals have nothing to do with the left.
You can't be a liberal and a socialist at the same time, unless you're talking about philistine and opportunist social democracy.
Non-digetic screams just summarized this whole thing perfectly.
Nope. Marxist-Leninists. We agree on some things, disagree on others, sometimes rather vehemently. Rather than stir up unnecessary internet drama, I edited my comment because I know that it's something we're unlikely to come to any agreement on. Plus, it's their meme community - nothing positive for anyone to gain in bickering here.
Hey, you are a fucking cool dude you know that? I know hexbear will more likely be your kind of space but with the very good comments you've made in this thread, I'll say you are welcome here despite not being a Marxist–Leninist. Even if we will disagree on a lot of things xd
Much appreciated and thank you for being welcoming. I'm happy that this platform (and the Fediverse as a whole) has been home to a lot more positive interactions than have been consistently seen in the web at large in recent years. Hopefully we can continue that, keep humanizing each other, and avoid rhymes of past tragedies (both leftist and non-leftist).
Even if we end up in conflict, we're still brothers, sisters, and niblings wanting to make the world more fair and equitable for all of humanity. I think that is vital to remember and reinforce, lest we be unwitting tools of the forces of imperialism and anti-social philosophies that are resisting the very ideals that we try to work towards or worse, losing sight of the inequities that drove us down these paths in the first place, dehumanizing others, and perpetuating the very harms that we intend to oppose.
no like seriously shout out to you, I'm not sure if I've ever seen an anarchist come in here on mistake and actually engage in good faith. Have you been to hexbear? it's an instance you should check out if not, they're a left unity instance, it is still mostly ML but the mods keep a tight grip on any sectarianism there
We all want to see the world organized in a more equitable way. What that looks like and how we get there may have some differences but the end state does at least rhyme. Engaging in bad faith is something that I try to avoid. The world's fucked up enough as is, adding to the division just. Thanks for your recommendation of Hexbear as well. I'm somewhat new on the Fediverse and will have to check it out.