Is that your normal reaction when people bring up imperialism during a political conversation?

No, no you haven’t, you’ve just been smug.

But I’m glad we are the point of the pigeon removedting all over the board and flying away, if that is how you insist on acting.

you’re just arguing in bad faith because you’re not ready to accept that you just didn’t know that the word has multiple definitions depending on context.

Do you think anyone born in the US doesn’t know the most common definition? The rejection of it is because it is a bad definition that serves to obscure how politics actually functions. I also literally reference this, but you insist that I dont know that words can have multiple meanings. Who is arguing in bad faith?

How do you talk about liberal hegemony (marxist definition) while using the nonsense definition in a non-bulky way?

Most people in the imperial core are miseducated in politics, that is not “everyone”, that is a small minority of people.

Of course the word has multiple definitions, that definition just obscures the removed out of everything and isn’t very useful. It literally obscures that conservatives are also liberals (in the more meaningful sense) and obscures the difference between left and liberal.

Well, most people have been miseducated on politics and the economy in the United States.

The issue is that your definition is “dumbed down” to the point that it loses utility when discussing politics and conceals cultural hegemony.

You make it clear with your audience that you’re talking about the “liberal” in the economic sense and not “liberal” in the philosophical sense.

Liberalism as a philosophy is connected to the economic structure? Are you referring to a different philosophy and calling it liberal?

From a philosophical perspective is the difference between being pro changes (liberal) vs being against changes (conservative)

Okay, yes, you are. Liberalism is literally the status quo.

in this sense you could say there are conservative communists (want to follow Marx’s philosophy to the letter) and liberal communists (believe in the basic principles but feel some things need to be adjusted)

You literally can’t be a marxist and take Marx as dogma. Marxism is a process based ideology.

By claiming to reject hierarchical sexism while reinforcing the structure of oppositional sexism.

Liberalism is an economic system.

Because pop culture corporate feminism isn’t actual meaningful feminism, it is an entirely different beast the serves to reinforce the patriarchy.

Easy, I use political science terms and traditional analysis

I literally use “liberal” to mean liberal capitalist because I read political economics books. When you say “political science” and “traditional analysis” you are referring to something that is a lot less universal than you think it is.

Also like how do you talk about liberalism and neoliberalism in a non confusing way while also claiming liberalism is left? You didn’t answer my question you just took a swipe.

The important thing to remember is that liberal vs. conservative is an ideological midpoint for the discourse being discussed and/or measured

Except this is a very narrow overton window(more like an arrow slit) and if you limit your discussion to it you miss a lot of context and analysis.

Which is good, because the overall trend throughout history is leftward and a relative system is able to both capture that as well as provide descriptive value for a given measurement period.

This is kinda unfalsifiable

They’re not, this is the traditional polling version of liberal vs. conservative — the one that everyone who is not terminally online uses

How do you describe the right wing ideology of liberalism in a not confusing way without rejecting liberalism=left as a definition?

I was not using the slogan myself. In fact in hindsight I don’t think I even used the slogan even in the description.

You’re still responding to

“It is antisemitic to call an anti-zionist slogan antisemitic”

With

I DIDNT EVEN SAY THE SLOGAN GODDDD

Since you ask, I am not Jewish or any other religion. I was baptised RC, but now find all religion superstitious nonsense. However, if you want to place all your faith in that superstitious nonsense, then have it.

You’re not beating the antisemitism allegations. Being Jewish isn’t just following a religion.

And that war where your family survived, well my father helped in that. My father took part in the D-day landings and then on into Germany. We still hold the medals in the family to prove it.

Your dad helped the western allies take west Germany and prevent denazification there. Not his fault, but also “you should be grateful my dad helped” is bullremoved. The Soviets knew how to treat nazis, the British government treated them with kids gloves.

I talked to them and they doubled down, I believe my judgement based on their activity was correct.

Long bans because the massive amount of calls for genocide and antisemitic bs because of the escalation of genocide in gaza mean we don’t want to have to deal with people immediately coming back. Give people time to cool off.

Hey, I’m the mod that banned them.

I’ve made it very clear that equating zionism with jewishness will not be tolerated.

It is antisemitic to equate an antizionist slogan with antisemitism, because equating jewishness with zionist settler colonialism is literally tied with the “jews are foreign agents” nazi bullremoved.

Lol you made a thread about it.

It is antisemitic to equate an antizionist slogan with antisemitism, because equating jewishness with zionist settler colonialism is literally tied with the “jews are foreign agents” nazi bullremoved.

It is especially appalling that this is being done in response to an anti-apartheid slogan.

Does this type of smuglord behavior make you feel smart?

I didn’t say it was just “tankies” but you previously said

Couldn’t care less about regular communists. Tankies on the other hand…

After I called you a McCarthyist.

You know, you don’t have to fail at doing gotchas, you can just recognize you’re an anti-communist like McCarthy and stop.

There really isn’t anyone who is a stalinist, Stalin had some important theoretical contributions but not enough to have a branch of thought, he followed lenin’s ideas pretty much.