Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?

• frisbird@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Musk funded

  With profits gained from private property

  a illiberal president

  Who built his whole wealth on private property and is actively attacking Venezuela for the crime of nationalizing (deliberalizing) their natural resources.

  that uses the power of the government to terrorize people with draconian anti-immigration policies and pushes highly destructive import tariffs

  None of which are illiberal

  How much does Musk receive every year from government subsidies and government contracts?

  A lot. Because he owns the companies that receives them. Because the system is a liberal system of private ownership and everything else is illegitimate in their eyes.

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  • AfterNova@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Musk receives govenment contracts and government subsities. Trump is using the government to terrorize people. Without the government he couldn’t deport people into foreign dungeons. Banishing legal residents into a foreign dungeon without due process is illiberal. Restricting free trade with massive tariffs is illiberal. Using his position as president to pressure a television network into firing a host is illiberal. The government could stop giving Musk subsities and increase the minimum tax on his companies.

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    • frisbird@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait until you find out who developed the transatlantic slave trade…

      It was the liberals.

      You are using the word liberal to mean “moral”.

      That’s not how it works.

      Liberal can’t be the opposite of monarchic, fascist, communist, authoritarian, and protectionist all at the same time.

      Protectionism is universal. Liberalism has nothing to say on it.

      Use of authority is liberal. Have these gentlemen ever seen a liberal revolution?

      You want liberal mean sugar and spice and all things nice. It doesn’t

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