• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I needed an ELI5 really.

    Liberals essentially cover for both capitalists and fascists. See, capitalist and fascist ideology are very unpopular on their own, so liberals come up with all kinds of ways to pretend that rich people owning everything is good for everyone (capitalism) or pretending that more police repression means more safety (fascism).

    Liberalsm essentially acts as the pretend-friendly “facade” ideology of this unholy trio - so yes, it’s simply coherent for leftists to despise liberalism.

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      3 months ago

      Liberals essentially cover for both capitalists and fascists.

      ELI5. What’s a liberal? What’s a captialist? What’s a fascist? Why are liberals covering others?