This is why whenever someone spits “liberal” out in a discussion, it just freezes my brain for a little while as I try to figure out what the fuck they mean by the word.
The ideological landscape could not be more topsy turvy if someone was deliberately trying to make sane conversations impossible. There needs to be some kind of grounding shibboleth that can erase all ambiguity.
This is why whenever someone spits “liberal” out in a discussion, it just freezes my brain for a little while as I try to figure out what the fuck they mean by the word.
It’s a classic example of “you keep saying that word, it doesn’t mean what you think it means”
Yes exactly. Around here, “the liberals” are the parties on the right wing of parliament…
Same for the US, with them being on the right side of the political spectrum
The ideological landscape could not be more topsy turvy if someone was deliberately trying to make sane conversations impossible. There needs to be some kind of grounding shibboleth that can erase all ambiguity.
You don’t think someone is deliberately trying to make sane conversations impossible?
Deliberately and extensively
They mean enemy.
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