• Quadhammer@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    No, liberalism means INDEPENDENT of the economic system I believe in personal liberty. Billionaires shitting on everything INTERFERES with my and my peoples personal liberty therefore it must be destroyed

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      2 days ago

      You basically want the government to only intervene in your life or people’s life in ways you agree with.

      If you want to call yourself a liberal, you are a pretty piss poor one.

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        2 days ago

        Yes I would prefer the government to protect my rights not actively attack them. If that makes me “a pIsS Poor LiBeRaL” then so be it

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      6 days ago

      You might feel that way, but committed ideological liberals would strongly disagree with you.

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            1 day ago

            So which neoliberal dems are referring to themselves as liberals? No, it is a derrogatory perjative to both the nazis and the leftists at this point, by design. Most of the dems are going to claim to be either progressive or conservative

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              16 hours ago

              lol that’s not what I’m referring to. What they call themselves doesn’t matter, what matters is whether their policies/laws and/or philosophy/ideology align with neoliberal principals. In other words; we only care about the material reality of the matter. This is because Marxists follow a framework called dialectical materialism.

              Words, especially those which a politician or lawmaker uses to market themselves to the public, are not material. They can’t be measured in any meaningful way and they don’t necessarily reflect reality. (You can, however, measure the material indications and effects of those words if you’re inclined to do so, but that’s besides my point.)