• Hillary_Clinton@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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    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

    • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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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      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.

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    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”.

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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!

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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.

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      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??

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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…?”

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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.