𝕲𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍🔻𝕯𝖃 (he/him)

Part of what I’m complaining about is that groups following an ideology often give themselves names and descriptions that do not accurately describe the ideology. If we accept that and use the labels they gave themselves, then we distort what those words even mean and language is useless.

Imma cherry pick some definitions in order to best make my current point.

Liberal. Adjective.

Favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.

Open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.

Conservative. Adjective.

Disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.

I don’t think I need to do a section on “fascist”.

Also also, the word “neoliberal” is absolute syllable salad to me. It’s like it’s trying to pretend to be one thing, but is actually the polar opposite of it. It’s a case of a movement naming itself without regard to what the fuck the word actually means and therefore it doesn’t mean a damn thing. Neoliberal is a name, not a description, for diet republicans.

At first blush that sounds insane, but reality these days is giving The Onion a run for its money.

Not liberals, democrats. Let’s use labels that actually describe the group that’s being discussed. Democrats for the most part are conservative, ever trying to maintain the status quo and unwilling to try anything else (meanwhile republicans are fascist not conservative).

Of course, democrats will continue to call themselves liberal and republicans will continue to call themselves conservative no matter how much I insist that they’re wrong, but I’ll continue to assert this point whenever a convenient opportunity arises.

Capitalism is the best system we’ve got because capitalism killed every other system, not due to any virtue on capitalism’s part.

I’d be down to try just about anything else at this point.

I do that when I’m stylizing my notes. Helps make things easier to visually distinguish sections and such.

Although I must admit that I saw an ai do it first and decided it was a good idea.

good?

I’ve never cared for this jackhole, but a douchbag doing good is a win in my book.