• SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I am a liberal. I am a socialist. I am a Muslim. I am Jewish. I am gay. I am disabled. I am a woman seeking to control her body.

    • GreatWhiteNope [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      I think most Dems are libs who lean right (or straight up conservatives like Biden) but the ones considered extremists could maybe be libs that lean left. I would call Bernie Sanders a centrist, is that kind of a left leaning lib?

        • spectre [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          Yes but if you are liberal who is also a "centrist" would most other liberals be to the right of you if they aren't "centrists"!

          • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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            11 months ago

            Sure, they are. That doesn't make you left-leaning, it means they're right-wing and you're centrist-leaning. Left and right wing politics are an absolute measure, not relative. Reagan isn't left-wing compared to Mussolini, they're both far-right politicians, it's just an (arguable) difference in terms of how far to the right.

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      A smug European lib maybe?

      Local libs love to dunk on the US and how much better they are (when a republican is in office, otherwise America is the big friend across the ocean)

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        really from what i've seen people are willing to dunk on America all the time. You have to be a right wing freak who thinks the Irish should be dealt with via a repeat of the boer war to actually like the Americans it's very weird to do

        also Joe Biden if you don't step your game up and do some leftist shit the British people who are stupid and evil enough to think there should still be paratroopers in belfast will continue to admire you

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    would love for this person to explain what liberalism is :wonka-listening:

  • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    If they were just trolling and trying to piss of as many chapo as they can, this would be the most effective post possible.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Eh, maybe they simply don't know the lexicon, they probably think "liberal" means "to not hate gay people"

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      A lot of Americans think liberalism started with FDR and Keynes and thus liberalism means state agency to implement a protection of society against market volatility.

      • Kuori [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        lmao if you can find me an american outside a university or this website who even knows who keynes is i'll send you $20 via carrier pigeon

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        The funny thing about Neoliberal is that they include FDR as a neolib but also say he's one of the worst presidents because of internment camps while liking McKinley's genocidal ass

  • Flinch [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    #FreeLiberalSocialist we need them back now more than ever fidel-salute

  • BlueMagaChud [any]
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    11 months ago

    damn, it's a coin toss as to whether this is painfully ignorant or a very clever bit

    • daisy
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      11 months ago

      It's like an adaptation of Clarke's Third Law. Any sufficiently brainwormed take is indistinguishable from comedic genius.