Carter's next

Our jobs as citizens is to be critical of the government.

If you're not being critical, then they are getting away with something.

Liberals are capitalists though. Just in a "I can fix her" kind of way

The whole world is capitalist. Changing it at this point seems unrealistic. Limiting it and controlling it seems more viable.
- This is a bit defeatist, wouldn't you agree? A lot of people use the same argument to fight against climate protection actions
- People said the same thing of the divine right of kings and look how that turned out.
  Any power that is created by human hands can be dismantled by them.
- Short term? Sure. Long term? Nope
- Smart people worldwide used to say that democracy had been tried and failed. What's unrealistic is expecting capitalism to last forever.
- That's exceptionally defeatist.
  this system that is rapidly devolving into feudalism already has a chokehold on the world, might as ask it to loosen its grip
  Like, in what way is that viable? This is a hostile system that should be viewed as an assailant, not as a competing ideal that can be reasoned and compromised with.
- "The whole world uses feudalism. Changing it at this point seems unrealistic. Limiting it and controlling it seems more viable."
  You a couple hundered years ago.
Liberals don't believe in capitalism... No one does. It's descriptive, not prescriptive
Liberals believe in rules. That you can tweak the rules and eventually you'll end up with a perfect system of government
Obviously that doesn't work, but a true liberal is a midwit with good intentions. I'd take that all day right now
- Liberals believe in strong private property rights, which is one of the most core tenents of how capitalism works. It allows capitalists to accumulate their private property and hold it for profit. And by "believe", I mean they advocate for this dynamic / structure.
- Liberals are literally the source of capitalism and capitalism is the source of liberals. They are undeniably linked. The liberal Revolution was the capitalist Revolution. You cannot have one without the other. They adhere to the capitalist mindset brutally and without question. The last 300 years of human history is that story.
- "language is descriptive, not prescriptive"
  Gods, what an utterly myopic defense. You do know there is a difference between colloquial language for the purpose of simple communication and theoretical language for the purpose of in-depth systemic analysis, right?
  Don't make excuses for being willfully ignorant of political theory.

And then I mention that I own firearms and start criticizing my state's overbearing gun laws.

The proletariat needs weapons.
- I frame it as having a Marxist view on gun rights and seeing the gears turn after explaining what Marx said about weapons

Needs an Oxford comma

Obama is a war criminal. He continued Bush policies and was where the buck stops regarding the disposition matrix.

A lot of Afghani villages burned at Obama's command, and one in fifty people killed by drone strikes was a POI. The rest were mostly civilians, including children and grandmothers

Liberals are just not as left-wing -- and not as truthful -- as some of us are.

Leave Carter out of this shit!

Jimmy Carter is a saint among demons as far as US Presidents go. I mean it's inevitable that some bad shit is gonna go down during almost any admin. But compared to the stuff other POTUS did willingly or proactively, c'mon...

Me ten seconds before I talk about how the root of all evil is capitalism :3

My Lemmy experience so far ^

No surprise. You're in .world
Unfortunately, that instance is crawling with neoliberalists.
- That isn't the only instance I've engaged with, but yes I've found that larger and more generalized ones have more liberals. There is a particularly obnoxious form of liberal discourse that I've found consistent across them too. Liberals on Lemmy think they're radical just for finding the loud fascism distasteful, and get very upset if you suggest that they aren't radical enough. It's less of the pompous fixation on hypocrisy you'd find on Reddit and more outraged entitlement to the desire for change.

Based

like how schumer is a right winger calling "left" as way to say hes part of that group and supporitng israel. the only people calling Left in sentence are right wingers.