Why do American liberals on Lemmy, an international forum, hate it when we use the word liberal correctly? (hexbear.net)

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Because those people have no poltical education whatsoever

They can't define words like liberalism, capitalism, socialism, communism, shit they can't even define simple concepts like "the state"

All they have is just vague vibes shaped by whatever bullshit the electoral parties of their home country happen to be spitting out at the moment

Liberals don't really have beliefs, they don't believe in history, they don't believe in knowledge, they don't believe in education and it's power of liberation

What they believe in is comfort signaling from state institutions that subscribe to a religious conception of civil governance

[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

no poltical education

fascist indoctrination is a type of education

[-] done@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

I mean, your standard issue "left leaning american" is pretty center-right, as far as i can see. Maybe some are center left?

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

metric vs. imperial system but for politics

[-] giacomo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

All words are made up

[-] Oisteink@feddit.nl 22 points 1 year ago

It’s the shared understanding of them that makes them into a language and bring them usefulness

[-] giacomo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Someone should tell america they are not sharing the understanding

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You're so right

American don't-tread-on-me capitalists call themselves libs
American trump republican nazi capitalists call antifascism, right-winger Dems, leftists and communists libs

Who the fuck knows what anyone there means

[-] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We don’t share the understanding with each other. You think we’re going international?

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because America is the only country and the rest of you non Americans have to deal with it. Everything is from our perspective because we export all of the entertainment.

maybe-later-kiddo there might be a dang CHEETO in the white house again and we cant be thinking about other places and their backwards definitions of things that more people agree with