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We switched close but stifling social networks for a capitalist safety net that offered modern life choices. Now we don’t have either

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

Liberalism is not what people in the USA understand by the word (i.e. anything left of pretty far right). If you hang out with socialists you'll find they're not fond of liberals, because liberals are capitalists. This meaning of the word is why the most damaging, ultra-capitalist, right-wing economic policies of the past 50 years are known as neoliberalism.

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