• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Isn’t that left liberal

    No. Liberalism is a center-right to right wing ideology that’s inherently capitalistic and permissive towards business. If Rupert Murdoch was still in Australia, he’d be supporting the Liberal Party.

    Libertarian is liberal right on that compass.

    Only the ahistorical and deliberately misleading US definition.

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        10 months ago

        I’m not in the US, no, but am intimately familiar with most of the terms, themes and national level events as I’ve been following and debating thoroughly for half my so far 40 years lol, so you don’t have to worry about me not getting it 🙂

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            10 months ago

            Ah ok, sorry about that. I get a lot of people assuming that, so I was the one making an ass out of you and me this time 😁

            As for the rest, I think I’m just going to leave it be since I’ve described the broad strokes pretty accurately already and it’s semi-late here so I’m gonna go catch some Zs if I can. Sleep tight yourself when you get that far!