• Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
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      21 hours ago

      Considering how many libs have been constantly going on about how awful this was and that we shouldn’t partake in political violence while doing nothing to denounce Israel’s MANY crimes against humanity, I’m inclined to disagree.

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        12 hours ago

        The only people I’ve seen calling for less political violence have also denounced the violence in Palestine. Some people are just anti-violence, there’s no hypocrisy in that.

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        23 hours ago

        Is this true? I find conflicting answers to this question and I genuinely don’t have a fuckin clue. I see republicans talking about liberals like they are left, but then I see this repeated statement and I always look it up but never seem to get anywhere.

        • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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          22 hours ago

          To a fascist, everything left of fascism is “radical left.” It’s mostly ignorance. You don’t become a rightist by being smart or nuanced.

          Liberalism sounds leftist at first because the word suggests permissiveness. In reality, liberalism allows for the consolidation of wealth and power in ways that naturally result in society moving rightward. Neoliberals take it a step further by being more active in their theft of wealth and power rather than passive. Liberals are often described as “center-left” but they are essentially a kind of right-leaning centrist. You might also hear the term “enlightened centrist” used pejoratively for liberals who haughtily want to pretend to be “above” the left-right spectrum.

          Leftism is ultimately about egalitarianism, particularly of wealth and power. This requires certain controls to prevent consolidation which results in rightist structures like feudalism, dictatorships, oligarchies, and the like. Liberals are against such controls, and so are enablers of rightism.

          This is the leftist viewpoint, at least.