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The US uses lib to mean socially liberal, in opposition to the cons. The rest of the world uses it to mean fiscally liberal, as in support of not regulating capitalist markets.

Non-US people often get pissy that a word can have more than one definition.

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Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I didn’t even know the second definition existed at all. Ty for sharing.

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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thank you, that makes more sense.

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- DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you don’t know what liberal means, sure.
  
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roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
And even more generally, Western liberal democracy which most flavors of anarchism and socialism view as a system that is neither based on securing liberty or particularly democratic.

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