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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You consider yourself a socialist but don’t like people criticizing liberals? Do words mean things?

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  • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Criticising liberal policy is absolutely reasonable

    Using “the libs” as a catch-all term for “anyone I disagree with” is the marker of an incoming terrible take

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t use it that way. There are plenty of people I disagree with who aren’t libs. But in this case I was talking about a specific group of conspiracy theorists who are active on Lemmy who are, general speaking, libs.

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      • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “generally speaking” as in “I pulled this stat out of my ass”

        Calling you a russian bot isn’t exactly a liberal policy, is it?

        If your reasoning for determining someone is “a lib” is saying that, then that’s exactly how you’re using the term.

        The fact you immediately assumed I was a capitalist is a pretty compelling argument that you’re not good at determining people’s ideologies based on their unrelated complaints about your bad takes

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  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not the person u replied to.

    Of course I like criticising actual liberals. I just don’t like criticising socialists who don’t like to go the tankie way whom u call liberals.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who said that?

      Lemmy.world is a predominantly liberal instance, not a predominantly Socialist instance. Most people here are liberals and just want to reform Capitalism into a healthier version of itself, rather than change Mode of Production to Socialism.

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      • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I got called a liberal for wanting to support cooperatives. I got called a liberal for not wanting to participate in an armed socialist revolution.

        I’ve largely seen the word “liberal” being used by tankies to dismiss the opinions of all people that they disagree with.

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