Fucking made my month. I can die happy.

  • Angel [any]
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    6 months ago

    Yesterday, I talked (online) with someone who I told that I'm a communist, and using these exact words, they refer to me as a "liberal" later on when I said I don't support Biden:

    "I didn't know there were liberals who don't support Biden."

    ...even though I literally told this person (who was definitely a chud) that I'm a communist.

    • ButtBidet [he/him]
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      To chuds, everything to the left of Marjorie Taylor Greene is basically liberal, SJW, woke, communist.

      You got the vaxx? Fucking anarchist Stalin lover.

      • MaeBorowski [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        For sure, but it's not even just chuds ime, it's the majority of the US population that thinks the "further left" something or someone is, the more "liberal" it is. Even many liberals think this.

        Similar to Angel's story, a while back I told someone (an acquaintance I met irl) that I considered myself a communist and their response to me was:

        "I'm pretty liberal myself, but communism is too liberal even for me."

        There were several other people present and none of them thought this was a strange thing to say. blob-no-thoughts

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          When the Soviets sent the dog Laika into space I'm pretty sure the dog understood astrophysics better than your average liberal understands their own ideology.

          You'll have identical luck asking them to find a stick with only one end.

        • ButtBidet [he/him]
          hexagon
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          6 months ago

          I'm assuming that "liberal" for liberals just means "progressive". So like, you don't care that much about thy marginalised?? Wtf.

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      that's when you call them a liberal, because you're correct and they're not

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      I talked with someone offline who used the term "liberal" to mean something like "for a better society, progress, for a better world"

      Basically just an ignorant rationalization of american liberal vs conservative political understanding.