Comment on silly costume dance

• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So many now believe the propaganda that liberalism, especially neo-liberalism, is “left.”

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  • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I genuinely think a lot of the defensiveness in these comments is actually understandable - people here probably were active online back in the Gamergate era around 2016ish, where “liberals pwned” compilations were popular. I think that people internalized the idea that anti-liberal means anti-progressive.

    It was probably partly intentional from the far-right, to secure progressive politics from shifting further left, by making everyone believe that they’re liberals, even when most of them actually are not.

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    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair enough. A lot of people who claim to be liberal or moderate who are decided left is pretty high actually. Even amongst the right I bet a lot would be left but they’ve been led to believe it’s bad.

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