this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Imagine opposing liberalism and thinking you're anything other than a fascist.
Mate, in my country the liberal party are the fash. Pull your head out of your bum.
The concept of liberalism doesn't equate to your specific country's liberal party, just as the Republican party of the USA don't support a representative democracy, the People's Republic of North Korea isn't a republic and does not belong to the people, and the Chinese Communist Party isn't owned by the workers.
You're so close to getting it
You, unfortunately, are exceptionally far from getting it.
Liberalism and fascism have more in common than you think, which is why socialists often say, “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.”
So called socialist countries have an attrocious civil rights record, a severe lack of protections for vulnerable classes of people, if your definition of liberalism is that it isn't socialism then you've truly outed yourself as a misinformed Tankie, gj comrade.
BTW, those "white liberals" helped pass the civil rights act that MLK Jr advocated for. The USA was 88.5% white at the time of the civil rights movement, and we the entire USA as one people still passed it through an all white congress. MLK's concerns turned out to be wrong with that letter.
oh, someone needs to tell you: there is a cure for political illiteracy.