• anachrohack@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Oh so someone calls themselves a liberal and that makes everything they do an example of liberalism?

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      8 hours ago

      No, it’s when almost every example is of liberals doing that same thing that makes it an example of liberalism

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        That’s actually not how a political ideology works! Do you believe that socialism is about exterminating your political enemies because nearly every socialist country in history did so? Or is it more likely that the people who label themselves with a political identity often fail to live up to their own ideals? Or that they never believed in those ideals in the first place and used it as a convenient tribe to gain power? Because liberalism has no opinion on the shape of park benches, that’s just stupid