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Lula is more liberal than Bolsonaro in what the word actually means but otherwise good comment
Bolsonaro's Party: "Partido Liberal" = "Liberal Party"
The actual meaning of political words is relative to the current geopolitical landscape. At the moment Liberal means "I love billionaires and I hate the poor".
Capitalists have been trying to steal the term multiple times — there is nothing liberal, liberties or freedom under the hierarchy of capitalism. Liberal is relative, and relatively speaking it's anticapitalist.
Newspeak is invented all the time. It's everyone's responsibility not to accept fake rhetoric
Every time I apply something liberally, somewhere a right winger gets a pain in their shoulder and can't heil for a while, and capitalism crumbles a bit more
The world moves, you can't use terms from 300 years ago in today's world.
Someone should really update Wikipedia, they're still in the year 1723 with this anticapitalist description
Interesting, never visited that page so I didn't know. Thanks for the heads up, comrade.
Watch out. It could be dirty communist propaganda
At least it wouldn't be nazist, white supremacist propaganda.