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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 31 points 1 day ago

Interesting that he phrased it as liberalism.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago

The American definition of Liberalism is the exact opposite of the original meaning, so maybe he was just being extra-oldschool?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 23 hours ago

What do you consider to be the original meaning?

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

You'll get different answers from extreme right and left and neither of them know what the fuck it means

It means fuck nazis is what it means

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 3 points 22 hours ago

To be liberal was to be open an accepting socially. The americans have changed it to mean to allow anything economically which is then coupled with bigotry because division makes the rich richer, or at least stops them being lynched

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 22 hours ago

Bro this is just wrong on the fine details, starting with the fact that the original liberalism, and using that term specifically tends to mean the founding ideology of the American and French Revolutions btw, allowed racial chattel slavery and ending with the reality that the "liberal" parties in most countries besides America are conservatives.

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

American liberals are not represented properly

[-] ellen_musk_0x@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

Neo liberal / laissez-faire applies to both major parties in the USA.

Although, it's certainly becoming less so with the GOP than the Democrats. IE: bailouts for farmers affected by their own tariffs, mass deportations which will affect business, etc.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 22 hours ago

Sure, and what ideological branch does a right winger who doesn't follow liberalism fall under?

[-] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Is a "right winger" who doesn't follow liberalism even a "right winger" at all, insofar as the term is used in modern US politics? Considering that without the central bird of liberalism there wouldn't be a need for the division into right and left wing. Maybe I'm off the mark, though?

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

His wrongness was so great, that it caused integer underflow and him saying something correct.

Or horseshoe theory.

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