• Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
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    8 months ago

    You don’t get to define my views. Either I said it or I didn’t. Otherwise you are building a straw man argument.

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      8 months ago

      But I do. U said so yourself that you are a conservative. In the American context, this is what a conservative means. I can’t be a Nazi and say “we must seize means of production”. Words have meanings.

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        8 months ago

        You can say conservatives say something. It may be hyperbole but it’s fine. When you say I did something, you need proof of that. Otherwise it’s a strawman argument.

        Unlike liberals, conservatives are not a monolithic group.

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          8 months ago

          Liberals aren’t a monolithic group either.

          In fact, I wouldn’t lump actual Liberals (as in support the philosophy of Liberalism, as espoused by liberal thinkers 200 years ago) with Leftists or Progressives.

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            8 months ago

            And that’s fair. We need to say liberal when we mean leftist or progressive. I will try to clean up my language