• 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    What’s your argument here then? That they were being willfully ignorant?

    The argument is that they very obviously, very understandably used a common definition of “liberal,” and the response of “let me explain something that you already know and then insist I’m right” is reddit brain.

    Just shut up.

    Are you five?

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      8 months ago

      They used a US misconception of the definition of liberal that didn’t make sense in context - what psychic powers do you have that you managed to deduce that actually, they totally do know the normal definition, which is why they were so confused by us calling what they think of as conservatives “liberals”? For fuck’s sake, even while claiming they know the definition they still can’t make sense of republicans being called liberals.

      To hear incorrect views without rebutting them […], but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type.

      Now stop being a lib and shut up.

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        8 months ago

        “Me and my few friends have the One True definition of this word, that’s totally how language works, and you’re wrong and stupid for using the word how most people do”

        Tell me more about how connected to the masses you are and how good you are at educating them

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          8 months ago

          Damn, you had so many chance to back off and still decided to shoot your stupidest possible shot.

          Me and my few friends have the One True definition of this word

          Yes, we’re only using ONE definition, we haven’t mentioned any alternative definitions like the one Mao uses in Combat Liberalism, and certainly haven’t said that the issue isn’t with multiple meanings, but the specific one they’re trying to use.

          for using the word how most people do

          Most Americans. I already pointed this one out, but the American use barely extends into other parts of the Anglosphere, nevermind the actual majority of the world - if you started talking about liberals over here in Britain people would be asking who even cares about the Lib Dems after 2012. You are not the centre of the world. Nobody cares if you say you’re doing it on purpose, you are misuing the english language.

          Tell me more about how connected to the masses you are and how good you are at educating them

          It’s extremely sad that you honestly consider Hexbear.net, a site with less than 1000 daily users from around the entire world, to be the vanguard of the revolution. That you’re sitting behind your computer in the honest belief that coming here connects you to the masses and spreads political education. Go outside, touch some grass, and join an org if you actually want to work on outreach, whinging in one of the most obscure possible corners of the internet is not going to achieve anything.