Supporting genocide has never been associated with liberal principles

The United States Declaration of Independence says “All Men are Created Equal”. The men who wrote that owned slaves, and helped carry out one of the most effective and brutal genocides ever seen, forever changing the North American continent

Correct, but your average yank still thinks of that as “left”

I mean I guess it’s close to the r word,

It’s specifically a portmanteau of “liberal” and the r-word

Liberal in the rest of the world is more aligned to socialism

I agree that US political vocabulary is weird. But this characterization just isn’t true at all.

For example, in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party is ideologically conservative. Same story with the Australian Liberal Party.

Whereas Liberalism in the US is associated with the left of the Overton Window.

It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.

This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don’t believe in Western exceptionalism.

The reason looking at Trump’s ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they “look like a middle eastern dictator designed it” is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.

But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump’s gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism

Saying Trump’s design sense is “Like a middle eastern dictator” is very different from saying it’s “like a European king”. The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people’s the Global South.

Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I’m begging you people!

I’ll only watch a VHS, if it’s a weird Japanese anime OVA from the 80s.

Wanna explain that one, Sherlock?

Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east

Yes.

A white man redecorated the Whitehouse and the person I responded to went “This Looks like a brown guy redecorated!” I don’t think I’m the one who needs to go back to reddit

Bad thing happens in the West

Liberals: “What are we, a bunch of Asians?!?!”

Yeah, this kind of vague, “kill your local pedophile :)” sentiment is often just an anti-LGBT dogwhistle and makes me uneasy.

If someone is going to post shit like this, and not actively tie it to the very obvious class dynamics of wealthy human traffickers, conservative Christians who promote child marriage, and politicians who protect them (without also being Anti-Semitic), then I just kind of assume it’s a thinly veiled call for violence against queer people

Impeachment is how you do that…

The house brings articles of impeachment, and term it’s up to the Senate to decide whether or not the president should be convicted, and thus removed from office

Where’s the well regulated militia you Americans scream about

So, one could argue that the well regulated militia in question is constituted by the National Guard, as they nominally are the armed forces of individual States, and can be nationalized under certain circumstances.

Except for the fact that Trump just nationalized the California National Guard when he’s nominally not supposed to…

Lemmy federates with blogs?

Back in my day, we just told Cleverbot to suck our dicks

When your synthesizer can play more then one note at a time

Search engines are getting worse, in large part because of AI…

Idk I might’ve been able to live without seeing the Mr. Hands video, back in the day.

The Solution to Traffic video, like you mentioned, springs to mind, but so does the one based on Guns, Germs, and Steel

Don’t discrace the good name of my friend, Portable Document Format