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    20 hours ago

    Liberal policies aren’t just a singular thing. Because of these groups astro turfing they’re getting the usual gang of idiots to say there is only one group and that is the one that shares a few center right policies.

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            I believe .ml is just another form of it with “liberals are right politically”

            The purpose of .ml is to create views and opinions alternate and divide the left. It’s a toxic place with more support than should be warranted by it’s values.

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                Same political groups that create walkway and bernbros. It’s your heritage foundation, Koch Bros, freedom alliance this or that. Same political groups it’s always been. The left are being pushed to decimate its own numbers by alienating itself from itself. It’s clear as day when viewing places like .ml and other Lemmy instances

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      We aren’t saying there aren’t different kinds of liberals, what we are trying to tell you is that liberalism is not a left wing ideology anymore. It is centrist and anti-communist. Yes you have left leaning liberals and right leaning. But that still only makes yall center-left and center-right.

      Leftists issues with liberals is because liberals, no matter what are pro-capitalist and anti-communist. Communists are anti-property and liberals are pro-property. Yes a leftist has more in common with a left leaning liberal than they do a right leaning liberal, but that does not make their interests aligned. Historically anytime liberals and communists team up, communists get backstabbed. And more often than not, it never even gets to teaming up. Historically, liberals are the ones to team up with authoritarians to crush communists.

      And I’m an anarchist. I trust Marxist communists just about as much as I do liberals. That is to say not much. And I have more interests aligned with a Marxist than I do a liberal

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        17 hours ago

        Economically liberalism can be right of center but socially they are left. It’s complicated way more than just “they’re right”