• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Liberalism = individual rights, small government/low regulation

    The meme sucks because you can be liberal left or right

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      11 hours ago

      That’s not quite right: there’s still big government and heavy regulation under liberalism, it’s just focused on enclosing the Earth’s Commons and enforcing a rigid system of private property. Liberals tend not realize this, in the same way a fish doesn’t realize it’s submerged in water.

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        23 hours ago

        Liber(al), liber(tarian)

        Comes from the French Laissez-faire which as a core belief was that landowners should be taxed not workers. Though literally means let (people) be

        The opposite is authoritarian which is what OP thinks leftism is