• Omega@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Leftists are semi-radical progressives.
    Progressives are liberals.
    Liberals are conservatives.
    Conservatives are authoritarians.

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        8 days ago

        About 8 months before the election a bunch of people claiming to be . . Uh . . not . . liberal . . . started posting everywhere about how genocide Joe was going to destroy us all and how liberals were evil scum and apparently they hate trans people too or something.

        The whole operation was textbook russian disinfo, but it was also really-young-people-pissed-at-the-lack-of-immediate-change-towards-luxury-gay-space-communism, which, I’m pretty sure most of us went through at some point.

        TL;DR: yeah, I dunno.

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        8 days ago

        Just one simple rule i think. After plotting all political ideologies on a line left to right:

        Person A claims they’re at X point on line of political spectrum. You can probably safely assume where they actually are is at X+1 (to the right) subconsciously.

        So liberals are actually probably more right than they think, is what the meme is saying at least

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        7 days ago

        If you look at the American political spectrum of non-Authoritarians, progressives are the ones pushing for change to fix everything, liberals want to make smaller more conservative changes. Both work together to help America debating on more drastic or more mild tweaks.

        Republicans have policies to dominate the population and maximize profits for the rich. They don’t exist on the liberal-conservative spectrum as a party, except incidentally.