Do any of them know what the word “liberal” actually means?

  • Ragdoll X@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    For a more succinct answer:

    It’s obviously tongue-in-cheek, but it gets the point across lol

    • Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one
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      7 months ago

      Liberals are, to quote Phil Ochs: “ten degrees to the left of center in the good times, ten degrees to the right of center when it affects them personally”

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      7 months ago

      A liberal believes capitalism is broken and needs to be fixed.

      A socialist believes capitalism is working as intended and needs to be destroyed.

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        7 months ago

        What’s someone who believes capitalism is broken and needs to be destroyed?

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          7 months ago

          Someone who doesn’t have conspiracy-brain. The people that say capitalism is working as intended seem to live by the inverse razor of “never attribute to collective stupidity of the implementors what can be attributed to deliberate malice by illuminati-like mechanisms.”

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            7 months ago

            Nah anarchists also fall within the “capitalism is working as intended and must be destroyed” camp. They just have different ways of doing it.