• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    You don’t want to get into definitions because it makes your entire point moot. Liberals are capitalism. Its the driving force of liberalism. They go hand in hand. The liberal revolutions were capitalist revolutions. This is an inescapable fact. The most core component of liberalism is private property, which is what capitalism is built on.

    Liberals will never abandon capitalism because they are capitalism.

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      Y’all realize that the fossil fuel industry already isn’t a capitalistic entity, right?

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        If by what i want it to mean you mean what it has literally always meant for 300 years yeah sure.

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          There’s a lot of daylight between “the exact thing a word means” and “the messy group of people who can currently be vaguely be defined that way”. Most ‘capitalists’ are just working class people who’ve been tricked or don’t do a lot of thinking. It’s wrong to conflate them with the rigorous meaning of a word that predates any living person.

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              A couple things. The Americans who call themselves liberals didn’t vote for this, and the American liberals who did vote for it were aided and abetted by the most radicalised and financially empowered conservative oligarchs in literal human history. So if your only goal is to put as many people as possible into a toilet and flush it, great job. If not, you might have lost your way.

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          Yet, you still can’t seem to define it in any meaningful way. Just vague references to other subjective vagaries.

          Case in point

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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            Pretty sure my definition was extremely meaningful. Which is why you have gotten so huffy about it.

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              Says the person who has to project their feelings onto others because they couldn’t defend their position. Or even explain it.

              And while I’m very happy for you that you take a great deal of meaning in those vague and subjective references in your previous comment, if you can’t even define them, how can you expect anyone else to take any meaning from it?