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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How is that liberalism? Sounds like colonialism to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

its fair because now the markets are free.

Irish people were free to buy food, if only they worked harder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sorry, I assumed the /s was so fucking obvious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I assumed, but Poe's Law and, well, you know, people are really fucking classist and stupid

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I need a comedy, when the most racist person possible, accidentally becomes friends with a leftists group because they all think he's being sarcastic (and he thinks they are as well) and see him as the funniest and smartest person in the group.

the opposite also works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Liberalism in the sense of a championing of liberal free markets. Extreme property accumulation is generally built on the oppression of past generations, so the idea of a liberal free market being 'fair' because it marks off the (worse) past exploitation as no long acceptable, but allows the extreme inequality that directly resulted from it to continue (and dominate the 'fair' free market), is, at the least, a questionable usage of the term 'fair'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's an interesting definition of liberalism. Never heard it before.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not a common usage in US English outside of academia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I did some searching around and none of the definitions I found are consistent with yours.