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    2 days ago

    Is it liberals or conservatives who are known for continuing to fly the traitor flag to this day?

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      The ideology of capitalism is called “Liberalism.”

      The conservatives among the “pro capitalist” liberal side are the side that love shit like slavery and women being a underclass. They hate progress and want to return capitalism to an even more brutal, earlier configuration. Because that is capitalism distilled down to the bare bones. It’s hierarchy and coercion. That’s why they are called that.

      The liberal Liberals, the ones who vote blue or whatever the fuck, aren’t as nakedly repugnant but they’re also unwilling to call the conservatives out for their awful shit because they require 90% of the unjust hierarchy and exploitation the conservatives want. Because they are both pro-capitalist ideology

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      No one actually made that argument, so I am giving you 7 pinocchios for your whataboutism

      Though if we are going by actual ideology and not American culture war identities, then plenty of self-identifying “conservatives” believe in the liberal world order and embracing their racism and western chauvinism could be seen as some accidental awareness of material reality