• Quadhammer@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Liberals don’t really give a shit about economic policy they care about human rights. That is why liberals are more on thr side of leftists than fascists. Going full communist is not going to be immediately helpful. What they meant to say was neoliberals(rich people who lean left socially but profit from the status quo)

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      15 hours ago

      Well that’s just absurd. Liberals have always cared about economic policy. That’s what liberals have been from their beginning. The liberal Revolution was the capitalist Revolution and vice versa. They’re inherently linked. What you are spouting here is a myth that liberals tell themselves and others to try to justify them continuing the capitalist system even though it goes against everything else they claim to believe, and which they will always favor over those supposedly beliefs.

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        4 hours ago

        No, just no. Liberals are interested in the pursuit of liberty it has nothing to do with economics and always has been

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          Liberalism has been linked to the ownership of private property since its inception. While it made some platitudes to social freedoms, they have not been the driving force.

          There’s a reason our freedoms have had to be protested and rioted to be gained from liberal governments.