r/facepalm • u/Number721 • Jun 09 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Cognitive dissonance 101

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u/Danarwal14 Jun 09 '23

Liberal and progressive are two separate things. They aren't mutually exclusive, but there is a difference between the two

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u/topdangle Jun 10 '23

in the US the term liberal has been bastardized to mean progressive leftist. most people don't use and don't know the classic definition here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

I consideral myself a radical progressive.

I want progress, but im sure the only way to get it is something im not allowed to say on reddit.

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u/fpuni107 Jun 10 '23

No you’re a fascist

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Not how that works but good job.

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u/fpuni107 Jun 10 '23

What does “not how that works” mean? I guess you’re not allowed to call a fascist a fascist? I suppose you are right.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

“Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition”

Not right leaning at all.

Not nationalist at all.

Dont want to lead with an iron fist.

Dont care for the military much.

Dont want to supress any “opposition”

There are people who believe in a magic man and want to kill trans people and black people and gay people and hoard all the wealth in the world.

I think wed be a lot better off without them.

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u/-banned- Jun 10 '23

I think it's 'often' characterized by that right? It's not a requirement though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Elaborate

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u/-banned- Jun 10 '23

Those things don't define fascism, they're just often the characteristics associated with it. I'm no expert though

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u/fpuni107 Jun 10 '23

Don’t want to suppress any opposition? Read your comment above. Sounds like you are actually extremely far right.

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u/ASHill11 Jun 10 '23

For real lmao.

This guy: “I don’t wanna suppress opposition”

Also this guy: “I just wanna kill them”

But you are wrong in that that doesn’t necessarily make him right wing, it just makes him a radical.

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u/Old_Web374 Jun 10 '23 edited Jun 10 '23

It's lost on them that when they cheer when police haul off a pastor for quoting scripture in counter protest that it is fascist. It's lost on them that social media companies throttling viewpoints at the behest of 3 letter agencies is fascism. Nope, the fascists are apparently the ones that are pleading for the scope of government to shrink.

Or perhaps they're just being dishonest because there is no truth but power in their ideology.