• jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I think another thing that confuses me here is the use of the phrase “own the libs” by right-aligned communities, what is meant by this phrase?

    • They seem to have no idea what “liberal” actually means (“conservatives” in a capitalist country are just another type of liberal), so they use the term to refer to the type of liberal who cares (or, for many politicians, pretend to care) about social rights