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minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·5 months agoEverybody wants to talk hysterically about the far-right - but people forget that there’s a bog-standard, garden-variety right, too. You know… the people that pretend they want change as long as the change doesn’t actually change anything?
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI’m a liberal. I don’t particularly want change. I want the current set of rights and freedoms to stay. I just don’t want them to be taken away.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months ago I don’t particularly want change. I want the current set of rights and freedoms to stay. I know. I also know you will happily surrender those meagre “rights and freedoms” to prevent change. That’s why us leftists say, “scratch a fascist and a liberal bleeds.”
Everybody wants to talk hysterically about the far-right - but people forget that there’s a bog-standard, garden-variety right, too.
You know… the people that pretend they want change as long as the change doesn’t actually change anything?
I’m a liberal. I don’t particularly want change. I want the current set of rights and freedoms to stay. I just don’t want them to be taken away.
I know. I also know you will happily surrender those meagre “rights and freedoms” to prevent change.
That’s why us leftists say, “scratch a fascist and a liberal bleeds.”