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jas0n@lemmy.world 3 months agoI guess you’re part of the American right? You see… the right in the US has been fed a steady stream of Russian propaganda through their talking heads for a while now. So the right has become indistinguishable from Russian bots. Sorry for the confusion!
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Why on earth would you think I’m on the American right?
jas0n@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thought “libs” was an American specific term. My apologies.
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
“Libs” is short for “liberal,” meaning a supporter of capitalism. Those on the American right who aren’t fascists are generally liberals, though they often don’t know what it means. When I criticize liberals, it’s from a leftist/anti-capitalist perspective.
papertowels@lemmy.one 3 months ago
Society in general understands it the way you do, the term is just different here on Lemmy lol.
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
And in the entire rest of the world outside of the US. See the Liberal Democrats of the UK for example. Or, like, formal/academic discussion even within the US. John Locke was a classical liberal, Ronald Reagan was a neoliberal, etc.
It’s only informally, when the right started using it as a scare word, that people started using it differently, and that was relatively recent considering the history of the word.