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So exhausted of the minority bashing on lemmy and other leftist/alternative social media, it was here before but it got way worse after the election. Anybody who thinks its ok to judge an entire population of peoples based on the political associations of some is fucking stupid and can fuck right off.

Probably not the type of person you are directing the question towards, however, to me "Liberal" when used as a genuine marker of someone's political philosophy is effectively someone who believes in the status quo, but with slightly more protections for individuals, or relatively minor changes to existing political processes. They refuse to believe that other market or political system options are worthy of attempting or simply do not consider them feasible.

As to the second part,

Either words’ definitions matter or they don’t, and if they don’t, then none of what you say matters.

Unfortunately, definitions change over time or simply aren't accurate, homosexual used to inaccurately be defined as "sexual orientation disturbance" for example. That definition of liberal also covers things like the ""Classical Liberalism"" movement as liberal, they believe in COMPLETE market deregulation and capitalist "anarchy", their version of "rights of the individual" is the rights of an individual to do whatever they want to when they have the money to do so, without allowing any government to intervene in any way. This can (and frequently does) include using money to discriminate against other people, that's something worth fighting against.

Also FWIW, "Neoliberal" is defined by Oxford Languages as "favoring policies that promote free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.", sometimes when people refer to "libs" they mean neoliberals, and yeah, deregulation and free-market capitalism has been tried, it sucks and deserves to be shat on.

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Don't forget the whole issue of the "(non sexual) drag acts are pedophilia" "being gay/trans/etc is child grooming" "Kissing someone of the same gender in a public space should be illegal" arguments that would allow conservatives to sterilize/chemically castrate anybody lgbtq or gender non-conforming due to the whole "Think of the children!!!" moral panic.

Hell this almost happened in Florida when they passed the bill that allowed forced chemical castration of people convicted of sexual battery, as well as that anti drag show bill which punished drag show performers with sexual misdemeanor charges, but also had a proposed amendment to change that to a sexual battery charge.

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Ok, as someone who was genuinely interested in Scandinavian history during the Viking Age, this one pisses me off more than it should, we know the vikings at BARE MINIMUM LEVEL OF CONTACT traded with people who traded with the Arabs, we know this because several viking hoards have been discovered with Arab coins.

Additionally, the Viking era came about because the vikings had (generally) better boats than other countries at the time, and those boats could traverse both river and sea, allowing them to trade over great distance.

There's a ton of other stuff I wont go into about the steel (which, by the way, was not damascus, nobody who spent any time learning about it would claim so), the broad terminology of "vikings", and the Ulfbert sword, maybe I'll come back some day and type it out, but I just don't have the time or energy to write an essay right now

I'm pretty sure it's a reference to this: youtube.com/watch?v=NlZzftmtGJY

I saw that thread, there were some extremely weird and gross responses, one person wrote like 6 paragraphs on how they couldn't stop using it, with one of the reasons being they "liked the mouth feel"??? It's baffling the lengths people will go to to justify saying a slur.

Star forts existing despite their expensive construction because they are superior to other fort designs in the age of gunpowder due to their overlapping zones of fire and safe zones for defenders? No! Clearly its because we have aquatic ancestors with melon glands and long skulls that bread us into slaves by removing said melon glands! And we hid their skulls there! In some of the most interesting and eye catching structures to see! You know, to not draw attention to them!

I legitimately do not get the logic here.

Yeah, but I wasn't replying to the social democrat. I can only go through seeing anarchists and communists be called lib so many times before feeling like the word liberal has lost all meaning and it just becomes another abstract insult

to Those Leftists™, anyone thats left of them, right of them, or has identical political beliefs on everything except one issue are "libs", its been thrown around so much on lemmy that it takes up the same part of my brain as "woke", when I see someone use it unironically its generally safe to say I can ignore them.

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