Im not conservative enough to be a liberal

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• Nihilore@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Liberal is shorthand for economically liberal aka free market capitalists, any other definition is wrong, fuck liberals

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  • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Words can have more than one meaning. Liberalism means one thing politically and another philosophically. Arguing it means only one thing is misleading and wrong.

    But yes American liberals are not helpful at best

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  • Keepthoseeyeslockedonmine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The classical definition is actually free markets with protection from harm, which is very different

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    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They still believe in the concept of a free market and capitalism being good. What we’ve seen with attempts to regulate is either the companies ignore it because the fines are less than what it’d cost to follow the law, skirt around it in some way, or just buy up people to then strike it.

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    • 2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The definition I’d go with is: “Anyone who is in favor of both free market capitalism and individual rights.”

      Which, yeah, would be kind of neat if you could have both. But the former tends to erode the latter quite badly over time.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Great! Welcome to now

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• XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Usually its the people who actually ARE liberals calling you a liberal.

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• pandora@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the last panel would also have worked great with the “dirty commie”-part :D

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• bashibazouk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No true Scotsman, eh?

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Failing to see how that applies here

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    • zoloftt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In the USA liberal is the term used to describe progressives. I believe that’s what they mean.

      Any Joe Schmoe on the street in the USA will use it that way. They do not know the dictionary/philosophical definition of the term, that people on Lemmy beat on relentlessly.

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  • ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Uh I’m greek?

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