Liberals
Liberals
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In all fairness, a liberal is just a Nazi that has never actually experienced suffering before.
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So liberals are nazis now? I'll pen that in under alt-right nationalists, republicans, conservatives in general, democrats...
Like seriously, we are seriously watering down the word Nazi by just labeling everyone we don't like as a racist supporter of fascism. Besides, how can every blue state and blue city be riddled with Nazis if they are the one's constantly complaining that our government is devolving into an authoritarian state? RIDDLE ME!!
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There appear to be a vast number of iberals who are indeed raging angry by the murders, represented by people wearing the Liberal badge and not reported and not reflected.
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No elected liberal leader has decried this ongoing genocide. Every single one supports Israel, and other settler colonial projects just like it. Liberal countries have been the main perpetrators of colonialism in the modern era, so this is nothing surprising.
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ah yes, not all liberals
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Won't argue with you on that one.
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Maybe I’ve been on lemmy too long. So confused on who liberals are anymore.
it comes down to capitalism vs socialism.
progressive + capitalist = liberal
progressive + socialist = leftist
Well. That one makes sense. So I’m leftist….. prepares for hate
US politics is weird. Liberal in the rest of the world is more aligned to socialism than capitalism. Leftist is way more extreme.
Liberal means you support capitalist rule over society, and also their preferred model of governance (bourgeios parliamentarism / capitalist dictatorship) as being "superior" to any alternatives, and especially the existing socialist alternatives.
Also since this model was first adopted by three colonialist western countries (UK, US, and Netherlands) in the 1700s, and adopted by most of western europe shortly after, it mostly coincides with a strong belief in white / western supremacy, as being the only "legitimate" form of governance.
The best book I could recommend here, is Losurdo's Liberalism - A counter history.
Awesome, I’ll have to check out that book, thanks!
Liberalists believe in a secular ideology where all humans are equal but white people are the most equal.
This. Never understood the term in the first place, is this something I'm not american enough to understand? Isn't there a substantial difference between right-liberal and left-liberal?
Liberalism is the ideology of capitalism, so everyone supporting capitalism is technically a liberal.
Same. I have an identity crisis myself now too.
Essentially, liberals are pro-capitalism, and leftists are pro-socialism.