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liberal 1
[ lib-er-uhl, lib-ruhl ]
Phonetic (Standard) IPA adjective
- favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. Synonyms: progressive
Antonyms: reactionary
- (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism, especially the freedom of the individual and governmental guarantees of individual rights and liberties.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Its the way the wealthy wamt the poor and middle class - undereducated and bombarded by agenda driven media.
The US propaganda machine is pretty damn effective domestically.
saltesc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah. Somehow core values of “freedom and rights for all without encroaching on freedom and rights of others”, is suddenly “an oppressive machine fueling a tiered society controlled by those that take advantage of everyone and only <insert another ideology the commentor also knows nothing about here> can fix it!”.
The ideology hasn’t ever changed for over a century and can be checked in mere minutes, so people are obviously buying someone’s bullshit from somewhere and it’s working exactly as the seller intends.
Going to have start signalling when talking about the different concepts, like…
Today I’d like to discuss liberalism.
vs
Today I’d like to discuss 🛻🇺🇸LIBeralism™🎸🦅
As clearly these are two entirely different—and damn near opposing—ideas lately.