• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 days ago

    I’ll take NPR, ProPublica, Gallup, Vox, and the way people actually talk around me over online zealots in denial about shit printed right in front of them.

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      20 hours ago

      I think you haven’t been paying attention if you think those publications are using your definition.

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        9 hours ago

        You must have willful illiteracy or strong delusion: liberal is often written in opposition to the right or as synonymous with the left.

        It’s pretty clear with Gallup. On leftward expansion of young women, they express the spectrum of political views from liberal to conservative & from left to right as synonymous. The plot of responses to

        How would you describe your political views – very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal or very liberal? % Liberal/Very liberal

        shows

        Women aged 18 to 29 today are more liberal than young women in the past on specific issues

        which means

        A Sharp Left Turn in Young Women’s Policy Preferences

        The other articles consistently agree with that language.

        We can see it in common language: when the right gloats about owning the libs, they’re not talking about owning themselves. They’re saying “the libs” are not right, ie, left. American leftists refer to themselves that way, too.

        You’re in serious denial to contradict plain observations smacking you over the head everyday. With that kind of invulnerability to information & inability to update beliefs according to evidence, you might as well be a religious fundamentalist: you think the same. Not a compliment. Work on yourself.