• doctordevice@lemmy.ca
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    11 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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        9 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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        11 hours ago

        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.

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          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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            7 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.