Doomsider

@Doomsider@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im not conservative enough to be a liberal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your point and I agree for the most part.

  Liberty means very different things to different people and in many cases liberty as it is understood in the US is not compatible with social liberalism. Most conservatives, for example, view it as freedom from the government and rules. Imposing something like universal healthcare would be taking away their liberties and choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im not conservative enough to be a liberal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I get the liberals being “normies” thing as that was common in the Seattle area.

  Most people that use the word don’t know what it means. For those who do, it can have very different meanings as well. For a someone who believes in communism/socialism liberals represent death as in liberals have went around killing leftist for decades now.

  The reason there is no left in the US because it was snuffed out several times by liberals. McCarthyism is the most common example, but it has been a reoccurring theme in US polticis so much so that the right has perverted the definition of left and liberals to their advantage to paint Democratic people as unamerican.

  I would be very careful allowing others to define words for you. You definitely shouldn’t be listening to people who don’t understand what words mean or random strangers on the Internet like me /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im not conservative enough to be a liberal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that is very common usage of the word for ignorant conservatives. I lived for five years on SE rural Idaho and liberal there was an insult.

  I grew up in Seattle and there liberal wasn’t an insult because most people knew what it actually means.

  So essentially liberal is a bad word for progressives who view them as fake for a number of reasons and conservatives who don’t understand what the word means but dislike it because they were told it was bad word.

  Most Democratic people are conservative and would be considered traditionally liberal. The strict definition of liberal is rooted in classical liberalism, emphasizing individual rights, democracy, a secular state, and free-market capitalism with limited government interference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im not conservative enough to be a liberal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What you refer to as the common usage in the UD is not common amongst anyone but ignorant conservatives. I clarified that for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im not conservative enough to be a liberal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Liberals are conservatives, they want the status quo. Progressives seek to fix broken liberal policies and structures.

  There is this thing where conservatives call Democratic people liberals as a pejorative. This is nonsense though as most conservatives very much support liberal structures like the system of law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im not conservative enough to be a liberal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, liberals actively fight against progressives in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonic the Dreadhog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Love that answer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonic the Dreadhog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a shitpost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonic the Dreadhog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Cultural misappropriation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Metroid Has Been Brought to the Game Boy Advance, and It Runs at 60 FPS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is also not as impressive of they don’t write all their code in assembly…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this is only limited freedom of expression.

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd…

  There is no general right to the freedom of speech in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lmao⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Such an ugly look, President shits himself needs to go sit down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Odds Are Good When The Goods Are Odd⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh Fascism isn’t what was brought by Trump and company as the US has had many fascist qualities since the term was invented. What Trump brought was a dose of Neoauthoritarianism. We are still heading in that direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, for real!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elections Have Consequences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can attest, my children just got back from school today and they already had gender re-assigment surgery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A) It may shock you but there are more genocides than just Gaza.

  B) Agreed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aint got no candy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Said no one ever about modern candy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you have choosen Genocide Lite©

  Would you like a strongly worded letter to Israel, a passionate lip-service speech about protecting human rights, or sanctions that will be vetoed by the President?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man gave girls cash after raping them in car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why you are being so rude, are you okay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man gave girls cash after raping them in car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was clarifying why it is considered rape even if they consented and were paud. You are the only person being argumentative here. Cheers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man gave girls cash after raping them in car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man gave girls cash after raping them in car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you pay for sex with an underage child it is a rape. Even if they choose to do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man gave girls cash after raping them in car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how they used rape. In the US they would have said alleged sexual assault and implied heavily the “young women” were prostitutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ilhan Omar was so confused by marriage to ‘brother’ she crossed out her own name twice on official application⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  She came to the US on a genius visa. Her accomplishments were apparently doing lots of coke with Jeffrey Epstein and soft core lesbian porn shoots on Trump’s planes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ilhan Omar was so confused by marriage to ‘brother’ she crossed out her own name twice on official application⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am very confused by this because even AOTUS’s wife is here via immigration fraud. I thought he was okay with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The myth of "consensual" choking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, good one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The myth of "consensual" choking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving your partner brain damage is so sexy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why i love my country⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From the Biden is not my President crowd. Get bent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨speak up for the rest of us⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sabrina knows plywood is fake and flat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrimp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smack shrimp on the ass This right here is the Corvette of shrimps!