Seriously though, the USA is virtually always bad.

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    You’d better tell them that then. I’m sure they’ll be happy to know that it’s impossible to be socialist and only want to curtail businesses.

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          Why do you get to define socialism to exclude liberalism?

          Socialism seeks to abolish property relations, and thus the bourgeoisie with it. Liberalism upholds them.

          They are ideologies that are in complete and total contradiction to one another. You either want private property in which some people can enslave others to exploit their labour or you want to get rid of that.

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          It’s been defined that way since long before Americans adopted their lexicon of liberal = Democrat-adjascent. And it’s used internationally the way we use it here.

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            Okay cool. So Democrats arguing for limited or unlimited socialism aren’t liberal by the international general definition?

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              Literally how in the fucking world could you arrive at this conclusion

              Not one bit of this question makes sense.

              1. Democrats have never advocated for socialism. I don’t even think Bernie Sanders has actually advocated for socialism.

              2. Liberal in America doesn’t mean socialist or even socialist adjacent. If you zoom out to include a “international general definition”, even less so. Liberalism is in direct opposition to Socialism. Both ideologies organize society in mutually exclusive ways. This is like telling somebody you believe in Cat-Mouseism. It makes no fucking sense

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              limited or unlimited socialism

              Welfare is not socialism. Social safety nets are not socialism. You’ve been duped by a misuse of the word.

              These are policies that socialists like because they improve people’s lives. They are not socialism itself.