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My political positions are somewhere on the left outskirts of Social Democracy, so I've no love for liberals. That said, when I look at the US, it was not the liberals that just gave a fascist not only a gun but an entire army.
When is it do you believe the Marxists and Anarchists were in power? When do you believe they held the gun to be able to give it away?
Punch up, not down.
To put it in another reference frame. When a video game fails who's fault is it? The millions of consumers? Or the corpo overlords? When democrats fail, is it the fault of millions of voters? Or the fault of corpo overlords? When something fails it is always the responsibility of those in power to affect the most change. Except, when it comes to politics, then we forget that it's those with power that hold responsiblity.
I hate predatory micro transactions and day 1 dlc. I don't blame the people that boycotted them for the prevelence of mtx? I blame the people that demand they be sold first, then I blame the people that sell them, then I blame the people that bought them. It's not the fault of the people that didn't buy them. Except in politics for some reason.
Sorry, I just got recommended a "games are shit now corpos took over, it's the leftist's fault games are bad". The misattribution of blame from 'capital interests' to 'leftists' is so pervasive even the "I'm left of center" crowd are doing it. I didn't engage there but still need the catharsis
Social democracy is a liberal doctrine.
Arguing about words is stupid.
Oh so it's fine when Musk says that nazis were leftists?
But I'm not surprised a liberal don't care about words or meaning if I'm being honest. They're usually first into repurposing words for propaganda.
No, I care about meaning. The problem is there's lots of people who argue about words and ignore the meaning.
Like calling me a "liberal" wtf does that mean? You don't know a damn thing about me. But I'm a "liberal".
The thing you said doesn't mean anything. They're empty words. "social democracy is a liberal doctrine" is an utterance empty of content.
And arguing with him about it is pointless. The propaganda is fire-and-forget and your "No, they're fucking Nazis" should be equally non-invitational.