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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The irony is palpable lol.

It's my fault for not understanding that using that term online is not going to be understood how I intended it, based on how it has been defined for me (Even when I showed the dictionary definition)

Though it is even more funny that so many people cannot accept that a word has more than one term, and based on how I used it in context, it actually does mean how I intended it.

In any case, I really don't want to discuss the definition further. Hopefully people can understand what I meant in context, even if the definition they are familiar with, is different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I do understand (and I am sure you mean well, not attacking you as a person). But the confusion isn't just a detail here, it's inherent to what you're saying. Look up what happened in Berlin in 1933, for example. Liberal conciliating attitude paved the way to nazism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Do you mean liberal as in how I defined it in my post above? Or how others have meant it, as in Libertarian/Liberalism?