•  🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆   ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English
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    2 年前

    The dictionary defines it as:

    1. willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas.

    2. a supporter of policies that are socially progressive and promote social welfare.

    3. relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.

    Where the hell does your definition come from?

    •  Landsharkgun   ( @Landsharkgun@midwest.social ) English
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      2 年前

      It matters because liberalism is inherently supportive of capitalism, a force of unchecked destruction that is incredibly harmful to the working class and indeed the entire world. To fight this requires you to reject liberalism. There is no other way. Any time you see ‘leftist’ you can just sub in ‘anti-capitalist’ if that’s something you’re more familiar with.

      •  Dippy   ( @Dippy@beehaw.org ) 
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        2 年前

        If we’re both going the same direction from the current state of things, then it does not matter yet. Liberals are not happy with how conservative things are right now, so we have ground we can cover together. Cover that ground, then start fighting them

    •  taanegl   ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 
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      2 年前

      It’s not a circle jerk, but the collective realization of who the genocides and apartheid enthusiasts are in our government, and how intrinsically it’s the political ideology that tried to destroy representative democracy and not uphold it.

      Republicans are classical liberals, democrats are neo-liberals, the tories in England, Macrons government, etc.

      Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Raegen were liberals.

      The CIA was invented by liberals.

      It’s not a circle jerk, but a realization of why the power structure and institutions need to be replaced with something left wing, for once.

        •  taanegl   ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 
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          2 年前

          What do you expect people to do, provide you with a manifesto? End every post with a signature, calling to arms? Maybe promote violent revolution? Gtfo here with that attitude, kid. You’re a circlejerk of one, i.e you’re just jerkin yourself off.

            •  taanegl   ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 
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              2 年前

              Great. Now delete your account and never come back. That will surely show us losers. I mean it is actively doing something.

              Also, it’s not one platform, but a network of platforms.

              Also, I work in my community to help people directly as a techie and youth worker. Wtf do you do? Like besides bitching about stuff not being done on a social network.

                •  taanegl   ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 
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                  2 年前

                  I see, so you’re a “cynic tied to a wheelchair”. Figures. Had some friends like that. It sucks balls.

                  In any case, your helplessness and attitude regarding the left is just a response to your condition.

                  You believing people don’t do anything is just a projection of your depression manifest. It’s understandable though.

                  In the end, detaching the old world from the new is a process that will take centuries. It’s nothing we can rush, unfortunately. That’s why neo-liberals and classical liberals still have a tinge of nationalism (hello EU/US emperialism).

                  But on here? This isn’t a political platform, but a social platform. A digital forum more or less. Believing any actual change can be made here is a bit naive. This is a place people come to relax, learn, and like you and me: to vent.

                  If you want to be apart of the change, remember that left wing is inherently social. Try finding local engagements and partaking in that. In the end, leftism requires direct participation, where as rightism is all about isolation.

                  I wish you well.