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  • I’ve only ever seen that distinction here on Lemmy.

    If that’s true, it’s because you have never read a book or a serious article. This is a hundred year old distinction, and is how the entire rest of the world and the study of politics uses these words normally. E.g. in Australia “the liberal party” is the right wing pro capitalist party.

    It’s true that in North America the common use has diverged somewhat, so it’s not totally surprising that people haven’t always heard it, and you could make a good argument that it might be more practical for American leftists to do outreach using different words to make conversation easier. But it’s nonsense to come into a leftist space and get upset about a much more traditional usage of those terms and which draws exactly the distinction which divides leftists from liberals, even “centre-left” liberals.









  • Oh, nice, uh, labour party ya got there… “The conservative government wasn’t conservative enough, so we will be the real conservatives.” Like I know that was their plan but I still think it’s crazy to come right out and say it like that.

    And who the fuck thought of taking people’s drivers licenses for benefit “fraud”? Yeah then they’ll definitely get a job lol. Nice own goal.