Do any of them know what the word “liberal” actually means?

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It means you support capitalism, hence why “liberalization of the economy” means selling off public utilities, land, housing, and resources.

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That seems like one very specific definition specifically for economically-neo-liberal, only mentioned below all the actual definitions

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It’s also the definition used in any serious literature since the mid 1800s.

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My parents used to called corned beef stew “Pig soup” so my brother and i would eat it. That doesn’t mean it was pork in there.

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300 million Americans call corned beef “pig stew” and it’s in the dictionary. Welcome to living languages. Corned beef is now pig stew.

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That’s not true.

Here a chicken definitely came before an egg. Read up on laissez-faire. There are also entire groups of anti-capitalist liberals and liberal ideologies as moat agree that capitalism breaks the fundamental rule of encroaching on people’s freedoms, which is obviously the main point.

Adam Smith was famously big on this, but also Henry George, the father of Georgism which is a famous liberal economic ideology that is staunchly opposed to capitalism for its many dangers to liberalism. It’s even from the US.

You can’t just take what you learned from the US media and US social media and force that onto everyone else. You’re spreading misinformation about ideologies in the hopes people won’t notice.

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You cannot be open minded, tolerant and support human rights and freedoms while opposing capitalism. If you oppose capitalism - you’re pretty much an authoritarian shill.

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This doesn’t even make sense, you’re very confused.

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Very bad take. Do better.

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Care to elaborate? Why is wanting to democratize production more authoritarian than wanting many competing dictators?

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Because capitalism is what allows to democratize production.

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