• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
    2 years

    I don’t get lib as an insult. Seems like pretty much everyone on Lemmy is on liberal side of center. I’ve seen some hexbear users use it to refer to anyone who isn’t as tankie as they are, but I don’t get it.

    • sean@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2 years

      I’m an anarchist socialist. We hate tankies, we hate libs. Libs are capitalists. Tankies are authoritarian. We hate both of those. Eh not hate but you know what I mean. Not ideologically compatible, therefore not allowed in the commune and you aren’t allowed to hurt others, and if I hear a lib say how they’re going to employ someone or a tankie talk about a vanguard state I’m gonna be upset

      • frostysauce@lemmy.world
        2 years

        We’re apparently not speaking the language. I’m a liberal, and I’m a socialist.

          • frostysauce@lemmy.world
            2 years

            I don’t appreciate your condescending tone telling me that I don’t know what the words I use to describe myself mean. You can kindly fuck off with your misplaced elitism.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
      2 years

      The US uses lib to mean socially liberal, in opposition to the cons. The rest of the world uses it to mean fiscally liberal, as in support of not regulating capitalist markets, which is an anti worker position.

      People often get pissy that a word can have more than one definition.