“I will never back down in speaking truth to power. The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.”
and she was the one to be censured.
Free speech unless you speak out against Genocide.
Libs still eat this shit up.
She’s literally a Lib lmfao what are you talking about
Linkerbaan is a known troll
Thx. Blocked.
What a pathetic existence.
I’ve become confused by the term “lib.” I’ve seen it used to refer to
- liberals, which is what I always thought it meant
- ultra-left liberals, often indistinguishable from the ultra-right except in who they worship
- rarely, but occasionally libertarians
I no longer understand what it means in any context.
In the context of US political system, it’s opposite of “conservative”. In the context of European politics, it’s libertarian. In the context of leftist politics, it’s “centrist”, or rather “center-right”.
While that helps, what doesn’t help is that people don’t often specify their context when they use it. An American commenting on Australian politics might very well use their own colloquial definition.
I reckon it’s safe to assume it’s option three. On lemmy, option one tends to include a slur, and option two tends to be in German.
Things are even more complicated than that due to the existence of liberal anti-capitalists that interpret the liberal theory of inalienable rights, which originated in the abolitionist, democratic and feminist movements, as also invalidating the employer-employee contract.
In other words, there is overlap between liberals and leftists as well
Sure, I was just giving the shortest possible overview.
A few days after 9/11, there was a sole vote in the entire US Congress, against military action in response to terrorists who were dead. She, and everyone who opposed war in Afghanistan and Iraq were demonized for it. At the time, she implored Americans that we “not become the evil that we deplore”. Tlaib is giving Barbara Lee energy. I salute them both.
Fuckin bad ass of her
