specifically : a historical process by which the semantic and connotative status of a word tends to decline

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    11 months ago

    Why is it liberal media when wall Street journal is right leaning and Adam Kirsch doesn’t have any posted political affiliations?

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      11 months ago

      Because OP is the worst. Perpetually online and perpetually unpopular

      I saw this photograph of a printed article someone posted earlier. The comments called that person out for cropping out the actual article, which was measured and nuanced, and using the headline as ragebait. Dude here just elevating to the next level of ignorant

      Here’s the actual article

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      11 months ago

      Because TokenBoomer is a rightwing shill, posts nothing but anti-leftwing stuff pretending its all #BothSides.

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        11 months ago

        Everything I’ve seen from OP leads me to believe they are leftist. Care to cite an example of them shilling for the right?

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        Yo peep their post history.

        • Pro-Obama voter (plan saved her life)

        • Capitalism lead to modern slavery in chocolate production

        • Police kill 10k family dogs a year

        Pro-Obama. Anti-Capitalism. Anti-Police Brutality.

        Maybe you’re thinking of someone else or I didn’t dig deep enough?

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          He sanitizes his post history. I’ve had several interactions with him to the point that I remember his name. Everything in my inbox that has his name says that content can’t be found.

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      11 months ago

      “liberal” is used here as in neoliberal, which is rightwing and capitalist.

      also in the us, democrats lean slightly right of center.

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        Again, if you want to conserve capitalism, you’re a liberal to Socialists. I understand classical, libertarian, social, neoliberal definitions. The consensus among socialists is that liberalism supports capitalism.

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          Again, if you want to conserve capitalism, you’re a liberal to Socialists.

          Sooo what you’re saying is that Socialists think conservatives are liberals?

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            Yes, in the sense they also believe in the neoliberal free-market and private-property capitalism. This also means liberals are still right wing, albeit much further to the left than conservatives.

            Both conservatives and so-called liberals believe in free market capitalism, despite having radically different points of view when it comes to social issues like racism, poverty, guns etc. Socialists agree with left-leaning liberals on the vast majority of social issues btw.

            In a nutshell, if you think really good representatives could fix most of the issues with capitalism as it stands you are a liberal/neoliberal. If you think the current capitalist system can’t be fixed by just changing the players without changing the game you are a leftist/socialist. You can go further left than you might be used to, this is where this confusion comes from.

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            Socialists think conservatives are liberals?

            It’s not that we think that… it’s just that we don’t really see much of a difference.

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        Curious to hear about the mental gymnastics required to make moderate-conservative into liberal media. That’s like hearing Trump say CNN is a conservative news org because it’s moderate-left