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  • That was clear when you wrote

    Liberals, the left, progressives whatever you wanna call them

    to refer to anything to the left of center and about US politics.

    People at lemmy keep raising this left & liberal distinction, and it's incredibly annoying, since liberal means left in US politics.

    My conjecture is that it's the German & Euro part of the community doing it & teaching it to US novices who don't know better. Their understanding that liberal means classical liberal conservative & their uninformed thinking that a president during Obama's terms can push any radical change and simply chose not to out of liberalism could explain the unreal arguments & expectations they keep raising here.

  • In North America, they call leftists liberals & don't split hairs like Europe & Latin America.

    In Europe and Latin America, liberalism means a moderate form of classical liberalism and includes both conservative liberalism (centre-right liberalism) and social liberalism (centre-left liberalism). In North America, liberalism almost exclusively refers to social liberalism.

    People in the US get seriously confused that the Liberal party in other countries (eg, Australia) isn't liberal.

  • Some would argue it's culturally imperialistic to impose US cultural sensitivities on the rest of the international English community. Wasn't the inventor of git Finnish? The entire world uses git.

  • Did you know that it’s illegal to say, “I wish someone would kill the president of the united states”?

    Nope: can't know things that aren't true.

    It's not a true threat. When someone said

    If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.

    that, too, was rejected as a true threat. The Secret Service may pay you a visit, though.

    So, when are you not killing the president?

  • I think Jon was referring to the previous DNC strategies, which were heavily reliant on consultants.

    Opinion pollsters who don't try to challenge or move voters?

    So, yeah, sorta, but not in the way the DNC does it.

    What would be a more direct equivalent: the Center for American Progress writing it? Should they do that?

  • “Their project 2029 is going to be a rehash of all the consultant-driven, careful nonsense that has put them in this place… in a moment when the Republican Congress is passing one of the most devastating bills that we have seen in this country in forever,” he said.

    Was project 2025 consultant-driven?

  • physics too hard: nonphysical things can't kill? preposterous

    Basically. Pretending the harm of something physical going wrong (potential to cause real death) is at all comparable to the nonphysical going wrong (a jumble of angry words) is unreal. Lemmy confirms the premise that this discourse & the people spouting it are broken & senseless. The distinction between physical & nonphysical is lost on these loonies.