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      4 days ago

      it comes down to capitalism vs socialism.

      progressive + capitalist = liberal

      progressive + socialist = leftist

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        3 days ago

        US politics is weird. Liberal in the rest of the world is more aligned to socialism than capitalism. Leftist is way more extreme.

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          a liberal in the united states is a centrist in the rest of the world.

          a leftist in the united states is a liberal in the rest of the world.

          the united states is MUCH more conservative that the rest of the world

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          leftist is pretty vague still because others are leftist too but each other’s mortal enemies like like anarchists and communists.

          you have to study political theories to understand what they actually mean. most people calling themselves leftist in the united states are democrat-socialist because they don’t understand what socialism is due to not reading any sort of political theory.