• ReCursing@lemmings.world
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      9 hours ago

      The American definition of Liberalism is the exact opposite of the original meaning, so maybe he was just being extra-oldschool?

        • Ellen_musk_ox@lemm.ee
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          5 hours ago

          Neo liberal / laissez-faire applies to both major parties in the USA.

          Although, it’s certainly becoming less so with the GOP than the Democrats. IE: bailouts for farmers affected by their own tariffs, mass deportations which will affect business, etc.

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          5 hours ago

          To be liberal was to be open an accepting socially. The americans have changed it to mean to allow anything economically which is then coupled with bigotry because division makes the rich richer, or at least stops them being lynched

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            Bro this is just wrong on the fine details, starting with the fact that the original liberalism, and using that term specifically tends to mean the founding ideology of the American and French Revolutions btw, allowed racial chattel slavery and ending with the reality that the “liberal” parties in most countries besides America are conservatives.

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      10 hours ago

      His wrongness was so great, that it caused integer underflow and him saying something correct.

      Or horseshoe theory.