Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?
AfterNova@lemmy.world [bot] 19 hours agoMusk 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.
frisbird@lemmy.ml 18 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