• yucandu@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Why do you guys use liberal as an insult? It makes you sound like Trump supporters.

    • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Because that’s a self-applied label of the group we’re talking about? What else would you prefer? I’ll call them whatever they want.

      This nitpicking is just a hair away from saying “you’re not allowed to criticize liberals or else you get to be dismissed as Trump supporters.”

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          7 hours ago

          that’s what we’re doing when we make fun of liberals. in every other country on earth, you would be appropriately called conservatives and labeled a right-wing party. you were never leftists.

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          How strange indeed that lefties who have been demonized and attacked by a group of people who demand loyalty without an ounce of reciprocation might want a space to vent about that bullying group.

          Not really a need to denigrate the right here, we can and do that alongside centrists.

          • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            9 hours ago

            we can and do that alongside centrists.

            Liberalism has never been “centrist” - it’s about as right-wing as it gets. The only real difference between liberals and fascists is that fascists don’t lie to themselves and everybody alse about it.

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              6 hours ago

              I agree. I’m just living what I’m preaching, they can call themselves the Enlightened for all I care, I’ll use their terms and lobby criticism at them regardless.

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      10 hours ago

      Because liberal policy in centered on capital/economic interest, not socialism.