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• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On what planet are liberals “the left?”

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The world of a hundred years ago. Where I live, the liberal parties mostly want to create more freedom for companies to fuck people over.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, pretty much. Liberalism serves the interests of Capital over people.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Robespierre Did Nothing Wrong

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  • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Liberals Left, Republicans Right, is the dichotomy of the US at least.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Overton Window, maybe, but that’s not a particularly useful categorization. Parties repredent relatively fixed views, not directions.

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      • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In the US it’s a spectrum combining party policy and Overton Window. As you move left, you go deeper and deeper into increasingly extreme thoughts on policy regarding what we consider classic liberal topics such as social justice, corporate power, various societal and economic reforms, etc till it hits an extreme that’s considered radical to the average, the same goes for the right and classic conservative views.

        Hugging the middle/mixed gray zone are the Centrist.

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    • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      US liberals and US conservatives both share the core ideals of Liberalism, including the right to private property

      They differ only in where they think individual liberty ends.

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    USA

    Liberal in the US means progressive. It’s a term referring to social issues, not economic ones.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Liberal in the USA means Liberal economically, it’s just that economic Liberalism is more progressive than the alternstive, far-right populism.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Liberal in the USA means Liberal economically

        No, it absolutely does not. You are lying.

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