• Doom@discuss.online
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    11 days ago

    The term liberal has been so mutilated. The only other term equally as mutilated is socialist.

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      11 days ago

      What’s so annoying is that they have been mutilated by the left bickering about what actually counts a left and not the right.

      • CobraCommander@quokk.auOPM
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        11 days ago

        I think it’s more that the right has tried to force itself into the left and demand we accept them. People who want to keep capitalism but simply reform it so that there are stronger laws are still pushing right wing ideology.

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        11 days ago

        Absolutely not. The level of derangement needed to make this statement is insane. For decades we’ve been watching corporate and right-wing media push the idea of liberalism as far to the left as they can for nefarious purposes. I don’t know why you’re pretending that didn’t happen.