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    7 hours ago

    The US uses lib to mean socially liberal, in opposition to the cons. The rest of the world uses it to mean fiscally liberal, as in support of not regulating capitalist markets, which is an anti worker position.

    People often get pissy that a word can have more than one definition.

    • ✺roguetrick✺
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      77 hours ago

      And even more generally, Western liberal democracy which most flavors of anarchism and socialism view as a system that is neither based on securing liberty or particularly democratic.