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Yesterday, I talked (online) with someone who I told that I'm a communist, and using these exact words, they refer to me as a "liberal" later on when I said I don't support Biden:
"I didn't know there were liberals who don't support Biden."
...even though I literally told this person (who was definitely a chud) that I'm a communist.
To chuds, everything to the left of Marjorie Taylor Greene is basically liberal, SJW, woke, communist.
You got the vaxx? Fucking anarchist Stalin lover.
For sure, but it's not even just chuds ime, it's the majority of the US population that thinks the "further left" something or someone is, the more "liberal" it is. Even many liberals think this.
Similar to Angel's story, a while back I told someone (an acquaintance I met irl) that I considered myself a communist and their response to me was:
"I'm pretty liberal myself, but communism is too liberal even for me."
There were several other people present and none of them thought this was a strange thing to say. 
When the Soviets sent the dog Laika into space I'm pretty sure the dog understood astrophysics better than your average liberal understands their own ideology.
You'll have identical luck asking them to find a stick with only one end.
I'm assuming that "liberal" for liberals just means "progressive". So like, you don't care that much about thy marginalised?? Wtf.
Telling chuds you hate libs too can really break their brains lol
that's when you call them a liberal, because you're correct and they're not
I talked with someone offline who used the term "liberal" to mean something like "for a better society, progress, for a better world"
Basically just an ignorant rationalization of american liberal vs conservative political understanding.
I got banned on Political Memes@lemmy.world for linking settlers. Reason: "racist"
Anti white racism. Literally the worst kind of racism that's ever existed. Think of all those poor mayos that had to hear the word cracker spoken to them.
Edit: @mathemachristian@lemm.ee I just noticed that you're not from this instance. Sorry that's sarcasm.
I accidentally revealed my power level at a pub once when a white friend's brother visiting town brought up "it's kinda lame there's no cool slurs for white people" And without skipping a beat, I listed "No purpose flour, honkey, cracker, cumskin, Yakub's mistake, spiceless satan, melanoma bait, pale comparison"
No purpose flour
lmao that's even better than "paper-impersonating bleach demon"
pale comparison
holy fuck 
Sundodger is a good one
What the fuck? That’s tortured logic even for stormfront.world
Like, they’re at least facially progressive in the Reddit / white suburban mom sense.
I don't understand it either but the mod I messaged ignored me 🤷
I'd like to bestow upon you the highest ranking award I can
The mystery emote lol
Settlers is the book that made me truly hate white people. It's good, folks.
What's that book that's like Settlers that's more lib-friendly and academic?
Edit: Thanks for all the responses.
I'd like to know as well
unnecessary sarcasm
Wretched of the Earth by Fanon?
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 by Gerald Horne. It's all the content of Settlers, but with a presentation that's much harder for libs to dismiss out of hand.
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other by Tzvetan Todorov (?)
Zak Cope: Divided World Divided Class.
i don't think settlers is particularly illuminating about the palestinian context or settler-colonialism in the general sense
The general answer is that Sakai was talking about the bourgeois mentality of white "leftists" and our inability to feel solidarity with the exploited non white people. The pedantic answer is that Sakai explicitly ties US settlerism to zionism.
Actually you're the liberal for not carrying a copy of Settlers with you at all times to quote from.
