• Ginny [they/she]
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    4 days ago

    ITT: People who think “liberal” means any one single thing.

    ITT: People who think “leftist” means any one single thing.

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      33 days ago

      “Liberal” can mean centrism, capitalism with a human face, capitalism with some socially progressive elements, etc.

      “Leftist” can be anything from “liberal” (as the far-right likes to pretend left=evil), to any form of actual leftism, which also can range from libertarians to authoritarians, with the latter sometimes weirdly being pushed a lot by the right (Fidesz, the Hungarian far-right party masquerading as “moderate, center-right, christian democrats”, have paid off the election debts of Munkáspárt 2006, and now they’re one of their satellites).