• teddy-bonkerz
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    The cool thing is, once you gain some maturity, you don’t care what people call you.

  • @Hillary_Clinton@lemmy.world
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    2311 months ago

    hello fellow liberals, i too would like to partake in leftist activities such as voting for senator bernard sanders (i-vt)

  • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You ain’t done nothing if you ain’t been called a red

    If you’ve marched or agitated then you’re bound to hear it said

    So you might as well ignore it, or love the word instead

    Cause you ain’t been doing nothing if you ain’t been called a red

    source

  • LazaroFilm
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    711 months ago

    I reply “Stop! Don’t talk to me! It’s contagious! RUN!”

    • @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I was recently on the receiving end of this when I implied I might be ambiguously LGBT+. The devout Christian with whom I was conversing disengaged because The Gay could be contagious.

      • LazaroFilm
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        311 months ago

        Consider it as a superpower. Making idiots run away from you.

  • WizBiz [He/Him]
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    211 months ago

    I’m not american so I have no idea what “liberal” is reffering to here tbh. Can anyone explain it to me pls?

    • @TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      311 months ago

      In this context “liberal” is being used as a synonym for communist, because that’s how American right wingers use it, but to a a leftist (socialist, communist, anarchist - the target audience for this meme) liberals, or more accurately neo-liberals, are center right capitalists. So while a right winger might throw all of these as insults at someone left of fascist, a leftist would only take offense to being called a liberal.

    • @Alisu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      211 months ago

      Maybe they meant libertarian. Right wing people against government intervention on people’s lives, just in favor of little to no regulation on anything. Or liberal left, as opposed to radical left (which usually means Marxist), or maybe centrists, which usually are more liberal. In general it means being more in favor of a less powerful government.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        711 months ago

        That is not what they mean. They mean American liberal in its newest incarnation.

  • MrMobius
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    111 months ago

    Now I’m trying to think what would be the equivalent of the “liberal” insult in my country… We hear a lot of you’re the “extreme left”, just as bad as the extreme right. You’re “outside of the republican/democratic frame”. As in you’re too radical too be part of the “polite democratic society”.

  • Roundcat
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    What does liberal mean anymore? To most people on the right, it means anyone who cares even a bit about human rights, public safety, true religious liberty, bodily autonomy, or the health of the environment.

    If someone on the right calls me a liberal, I wear it like a badge of honor. If someone on the left calls me a liberal, then we’re scrapping!

  • @HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    I’ve been accused of being an “enlightened centrist” when I criticize both Trump and Biden.

    Except I’m criticizing them from way over on the far-left.

    • Cait
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      211 months ago

      Thats the thing I dont get about americans, you have a far right and center right party and some people there seriosly think thats thats normal??

      • @Toribor@corndog.social
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        The American Right: “We should subjugate and oppress anyone who isn’t a straight white christian.”

        The American Left: “That seems a little aggressive, how about a compromise where we just oppress them a little bit?”

        Actual Leftists: “What in the actual fuck…?”

      • @HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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        It’s like that astrophysics phenomenon where the spectrum shifts to one side. I guess redshift in this case since their more far right party is the red one.