The skeleton key to online leftwing discourse is that no one uses any of these terms - liberalism, socialism, capitalism - in a way consistent with their historical definitions, or even consistently in the present. It’s empty signifiers all the way down.

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The argument I have heard is that he participated in a bourgeoisie democratic system, which---fine, I guess---but you're clearly not using "liberal" in the sense people refer to the Democratic Party as liberal at that point, it's a totally different definition!

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The other group you see this from a lot is urban nimby machine types, whose entire legitimacy is based on extremely low turnout elections that are deliberately held at weird times, public meetings often held literally during work hours, etc., but claim to represent democratic will

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Because to them, the retiree who goes to every meeting, is in fact more of a community member than the person who just lives there and wants politics to be simple

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word on the street is that there is *another* PHP vulnerability. this one was found by something even more powerful for security research than a frontier LLM: a catgirl

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