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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago

The majority here are not liberals.

The majority of people here are liberals - not leftists.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Strongly disagree.

The majority of people here aren't tankie fucks, but they're certainly leftists.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago

You talk like someone who only learnt what the term tankie means a week ago.

Do you even know what it is that makes liberals right-wing?

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

You talk like someone who's cool with ML's.

Do you even know what it is that makes ML's authoritarian?

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago
[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

🤮 nothing cool about authie statists.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

I'll take that as a no - so I'll be happy to educate you.

Right-wing politics exist for one reason and one reason only - to protect the status quo. This means liberalism (which includes that which gets called "conservativism" in the US) is perfectly and fundamentally right-wing.

The only thing that liberals and their right-wing fellow travellers disagree on is the means by which the status quo should be protected - liberals believe that the status quo should be protected by making it "nicer" through "reform" in the hopes of eliciting less resistance while fascists (for instance) believe that the status quo should be protected through unrestricted state violence. But no matter their differences, upholding the status quo is something these right-wingers fundamentally agree on.

A leftist doesn't believe that applying lipstick to a pig changes anything - as a liberal does - but instead believes that the status quo must be dismantled by whatever means necessary. This is what makes leftists leftist.

So no... this place is flooded by liberals - leftists are still a minority here.

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