• liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works
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      19 hours ago

      Liberals are not left wing, the left starts at the abolition of capitalism. Without that they cannot back up any concept of equality or equity.

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        52 minutes ago

        I think you’re confusing the left with far left idealists. “Right wing” and “left wing” are symbolic terms that once represented the right and left sides of the French National Assembly during the French Revolution.

        So the “left” is referencing democrats/liberals, not anti-capitalists.

        You might want to either co-opt a different term, or better yet- come up with something new.

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          48 minutes ago

          No matter how much you liberals whine, you’re not left wing. The left starts are the abolition of capitalism, as equality and equity cannot exist under capitalism.

          As far as the origin of the term… That’s not how language works. It evolves over time. The liberals haven’t been included in the left since you people appointed Hitler after instigating more than a decade of institutional violence against communists.

          You’re not left wing, you’re the exclusive reason fascists have ever gained power.

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                  37 minutes ago

                  Are you? Did you skip history class? Did you just not get taught how Hitler was appointed and why liberals felt he was the moderate choice that more closely aligned with them than the actual left wing people they were using state power to suppress?

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                    26 minutes ago

                    Liberals didn’t elect Trump, fascist, though. Does not compute.

                    Liberals also got the Civil rights Act of 1964 passed in Congress, despite MLK’s prior Birmingham letter.

                    To equate American Democratic liberalism of today to German parties of the 1930s… Yeesh.