• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Look I’m going to be honest, I’m pretty confused as to what your point is. You’ve started this by implying my ideology is only ‘mocking people I disagree with’, then now you’re professing you align with the principles of liberal social movements.

    Non-mocking question I swear: Is this because the term ‘liberal’ is often used to describe Democrats (obviously including by themselves)?

    • Michael@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      Liberalism is as dead as Latin. Suppose I could speak Latin fluently and knew a few people who also could - it doesn’t make it any more alive.

      Liberalism amounts to vaguely supporting good things while watching democracy and consent-based governance die - and doing absolutely nothing meaningful to change the trajectory. Self-identified liberals blaming/shaming/mocking individuals to the left of them (who are closer ideologically to them than they realize) is what is dividing the left and is an extremely common behavior in online discourse.