Liberals, standing in the way of progress no matter what!

a year ago by алсааас [she/her] to c/leftymemes

The2b 95 points a year ago

Correct, liberalism is a center-right ideology. They are literally closer on the political spectrum to fascists than leftists.

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ZILtoid1991 5 points a year ago

Depends on. So called "Ur liberalism" was the foundation of a lot of our moral systems on the left, but then we had to realize capitalism have weaponized early representative democracies, so a great split began, and after some conservatives started to call themselves "classical liberals", a steep rightward shift begun, especially with all the moral panics about communism. I remember I had to vote Fidesz, because I got told that the liberal party masquerading as social democrats called MSZP wants to bring back communism and nix all intellectual jobs they can, because "worker's party". Meanwhile, Fidesz nixed all intellectual jobs they could, because they want to build a "work based society". Then all the old people I hated who only liked "communism" because of the authoritarianism suddenly became Fidesz voters, some even celebrated the "return of communism to Hungary", because for them communism was equal with Stahanovist work moralism, which the capitalists in our country have appropriated to themselves. Get ready to work for "at least he works even if it's not much money" style praises, which makes me wish hell was not only real, but that these people had a special place there, very deep down.

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leftytighty 5 points a year ago
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jimmy90 -14 points a year ago

marxist is stuck in an election with a liberal and a fascist and an anarchist

marxist votes for self and gives election to fascist

marxist doesn't care because their purpose was to destroy the nice liberal state they live in to give their life purpose and make their larp universe real

ps. anarchist never mattered

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skisnow 14 points a year ago

It astonishes me just how hard the army of votescolds are pushing at the moment, like they’re “hey guys this isn’t the time to reform Democracy or the Democratic Party, the election is only 39 months away! Shut up and get in line!”

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frostedtrailblazer 2 points a year ago

I’m all in on trying to reform tbh. If we want to do it right though, we need to change the voting system on in each state, like Alaska and Maine did.

Having an alternative voting system is how we can get more candidates like Mamdani in office, since we don’t have to worry about vote splitting between our preferred candidate and the incumbent.

First Past the Post voting is the predominant method for how voting is done in the US. It’s a winner takes all system where you can only pick one of the candidates on the ballot. I feel alternative voting makes way more sense since you can pick your preferred candidate(s) first and then have some back up options you’re personally okay with winning. We end up with so many do nothing incumbents since people worry about splitting their vote so much and letting the worst candidate win, due to the flaw of the system.

Let’s get the word out about alternative voting systems and organizations that promote them. Get involved locally can help scale it up as well. NYC uses an alternative voting system for instance.

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outhouseperilous 8 points a year ago

You're in this one. Clearly it's upset you.

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jatone 5 points a year ago
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jatone 1 point a year ago
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anomnom -18 points a year ago

Fascism is literally illiberal.

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youCanCallMeDragon 38 points a year ago

Liberals will always put corporate interests ahead of the rights of the people. Of course they’d rather have happy people and happy corpos, but when push comes to shove they are always more willing to hand the keys to fascists than socialists. At least the fascists believe in capitalism.

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Vlado -21 points a year ago

Liberalism has nothing to do with corporations. These are two totally independents axis. One one you have liberalism and authoritarianism On the other you have socialism and capitalism. You can have liberal socialist and you can have liberal capitalist. People love to conflate these things based on the popular parties in their country. But just because there are opposing parties with some specific economic/social viewpoint combination in one country, it doesn’t mean that they make a template how it works.

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youCanCallMeDragon 33 points a year ago

Dearest, no. The axis are economic left vs right (private vs public ownership) and authoritarian vs libertarian. Libertarian being “I can do whatever I want” and authoritarian being “you can only do what I say.” Libertarianism is distinct from liberalism which is a political ideology invented by John Locke which believes free market capitalism is the best economic system except that it needs to be regulated to protect consumers (think the FDA). Before Donald Trump and for most of American history, both parties were liberal parties.

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alsaaas 29 points a year ago

Just an FYI: this comment reads like your whole political education is based on the political compass 💀💀

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leftytighty 21 points a year ago
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outhouseperilous 6 points a year ago

Then why us every lib in a desperate frenzy to deep throat it and annihilate its enemies?

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ShaggySnacks 87 points a year ago

Then the fasciast shoots the Marxist and Ancharist, then proceeds to beat the Liberal to death.

Liberal surpised Pickachu face

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D_C 70 points a year ago

"Just because this has happened many, many, mmmanyyyyy times before how was I supposed to know it'd happen again?"

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ZILtoid1991 15 points a year ago

The fascist told the liberal "um, ackchually, I'm a moderate, christian-democratic conservative, I just think woke went too far with the trans kids thanks to those radicals".

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ShaggySnacks 11 points a year ago

"I was one of the special ones!"

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leftthegroup 7 points a year ago
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obrien_must_suffer 3 points a year ago
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outhouseperilous 4 points a year ago

Cheering the whole time.

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commiunism 61 points a year ago

Reminds me of Romania right now where the centrist candidate that won the presidential elections (and tons of people on here celebrated because it wasn't a reactionary right-winger) refused to ban and straight up endorsed legionary and fascist organizations to "fight communism"

Article in Romanian, though using machine translation will get the general idea across

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SaltyIceteaMaker 37 points a year ago

Centrism is always just right wing trying to not get called right wing

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goferking0 23 points a year ago

Or how happy they were kid starver won them labour immediately just speed up doing what the torries were?

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Bloomcole 13 points a year ago

"won" after they illegally anulled the results and didn't allow the winner to take part.
All OK for the EU when things don't go their way.
Not that I want those fascists to win but yet another example of the hypocrites from the EU with their imaginary 'democratic values'

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jsomae 23 points a year ago

Only if the fascist happens to be in charge right now, because that's the law. smh.

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leftytighty 15 points a year ago
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SereneSadie 22 points a year ago

Yep, that sums up November 2024 in America pretty well.

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WhiteOakBayou 19 points a year ago

Gun control for me but not for thee. The liberal way.

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leftthegroup 17 points a year ago
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cypherpunks 15 points a year ago path: 0 18875466, hotness: undefined, score: 15, children: 19
alsaaas 16 points a year ago

Instant sub, now I'll have some tacticool larpers in my feed LOL

Edit

corrected the autocorrect (it changed "tacticool" to "tactical")

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syreus -9 points a year ago
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alsaaas 16 points a year ago

Learned absolutely nothing from history award

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Saledovil 0 points a year ago

So, what strategy do you think would improve things? What should be done?

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Grerkol 15 points a year ago

I just read through your history...

Cringe behaviour. Touch grass

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Lushed_Lungfish 5 points a year ago

Never specified if the bullets are actually for the firearm in question though...

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vga 0 points a year ago
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NIB -2 points a year ago
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Lucky_777 -3 points a year ago path: 0 18871085, hotness: undefined, score: -3, children: 0
JoYo -5 points a year ago

No surprise that the marxist and anarchist are unarmed.

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Geobloke -8 points a year ago

I guess the Marxist would keep the gun, but shoot the roof and the anarchist would shoot the roof to name a point?

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ZILtoid1991 1 point a year ago

Depends on. If they're a "Marxist-Leninist" (read: Stalinist), they would shoot the liberal and the anarchist, then try to negotiate with the fascist. It they're an actual Marxist, they would shoot the fascist and the liberal, then try to negotiate with the anarchist.

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Wolf 7 points a year ago

What's there to negotiate? Once the fascists and the liberals are out of the way the Marxists and Anarchists can start a stateless society based on mutual cooperation. It's a win-win.

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BrainInABox 2 points a year ago

Historically, Marxist-Leninists have shot more fascists than anyone else.

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ZILtoid1991 -3 points a year ago

After they were forced to, before that they tried to negotiate with them.

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BrainInABox 3 points a year ago

Yeah, and before that they tried to negotiate with the liberals to team up against the fascists, but the liberals preferred the fascists.

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Monument -9 points a year ago

Rule 0: No agitprop. Not a meme, just shittiness.

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alsaaas 19 points a year ago
  1. Only post socialist memes

That refers to funny image macros and means that generally videos and screenshots are not allowed. Exceptions include explicitly humorous and short videos, as well as (social media) screenshots depicting a funny situation, joke, or joke picture relating to socialist movements, theory, societal issues, or political opponents. Examples would be the classic case of humorous Tumblr or Twitter posts/threads. (and no, agitprop text does not count as a meme)

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Monument -10 points a year ago

What makes it explicitly humorous?

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alsaaas 17 points a year ago

... it's literally a telling a joke?

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Monument 0 points a year ago

I mean this earnestly, what part is funny?

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_cryptagion 5 points a year ago
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Vlado -19 points a year ago

Ah right, liberals, the bane of everyone’s existence. Nazis are already blaming liberals for everything, so it was just a matter of time until anarchists (or whatever OP likes to be) start doing the same.

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_cryptagion 25 points a year ago
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BeefandSquints -8 points a year ago

I feel like not voting is the single greatest help fascism has ever received.

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Flatworm7591 16 points a year ago

Not voting for a democrat you mean? I think leftists would vote for a left wing candidate if you Dems can ever bring yourself to nominate one for President. Otherwise it's just more of the same.

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ILikeBoobies -5 points a year ago

Cornel West ran, non-voters exist because they are happy with either front runner winning. If they wanted neither then they would protest vote.

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BeefandSquints -6 points a year ago

They never will if leftists don't start voting.

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alsaaas 25 points a year ago

Mooooooooom, call the cops. The lefists are being leftists again, they don't see that compromising with and providing the material basis for fascists is actually a good thing!!1!1!!1!1!!

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Vlado -25 points a year ago

Mooom call the cops. Enlightened communist (or whatever you think you are) think everyone is enemy and then they’re surprised when someone doesn’t agree with them.

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alsaaas 15 points a year ago

Crying baby with a snot bubble under it's nose

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enbipanic -8 points a year ago

Wat

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eugenevdebs 14 points a year ago

Maybe liberals should stop doing things that make fascism grow, and help the people who stop fascism? Maybe that's asking them to not be racist elitist assholes, so they'll never do it.

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obrien_must_suffer 12 points a year ago
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piefood 7 points a year ago

Hey now, don't undersell them

They also helped build out a lot of the systems that the fascists are using, and reached across the aisle to support the facists.

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VerticaGG 7 points a year ago

Get ratiod you fascist-sympathizing, state-capitalist, imperialst neo-colonialism enabling ignoramus

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ILikeBoobies -11 points a year ago

Anarchism is a liberal ideology. Why would OP be blaming themselves?

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leftytighty 10 points a year ago
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eugenevdebs 9 points a year ago

Tell me you don't understand politics without telling me you don't understand politics.

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DrFistington -30 points a year ago

Dude, stop outsourcing your trash to foreigners who barely understand English

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LibertyLizard 40 points a year ago

Pretty sure the original post is by a western, native English-speaking anarchist. She’s a YouTuber and I’ve watched a couple of her videos, which I found pretty good.

You’re welcome to disagree with her but the xenophobic assumptions don’t really add anything of value to the conversation here.

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Deceptichum 22 points a year ago
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FerretyFever0 -30 points a year ago
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UnderpantsWeevil 21 points a year ago

The joke is better in the original Hebrew

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alsaaas 16 points a year ago

WDYM?

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FerretyFever0 -11 points a year ago
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alsaaas 12 points a year ago

🤡

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Bloomcole 11 points a year ago

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alsaaas 13 points a year ago

Hey, you could add an alt-text to your reaction image like this (you can just copy paste the following markdown):

![Crying baby with a snot bubble under its nose](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ae41a818-bd96-4699-ac48-cfd959b7a217.jpeg)

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FerretyFever0 -5 points a year ago
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