• CelloMike@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Depends where you are

    In the UK a republican is someone who wants to abolish the monarchy so, yeah I would

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        23 hours ago

        eh, maybe. better than a conservative. but if they’re a true liberal and not left of? no. liberals are just conservative-lite. especially with their actions in Canadian federal gov lately

        ^Canadian terms

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          21 hours ago

          That’s what fraught.

          Europe: Liberal means free-marketeer, low regulation, absolutely a right winger.

          America Right: Liberal means loving gays and government programs, ie "“The Left”.

          American Center: Liberal means supporting gays and government programs. Because they’re also cowards forever running in fear of conservative branding, they prefer the term progressive.

          American Left (and Canada, per you): Liberal is a corporate-backed Dem looking for no change to the underlying economic or power systems, with flavors of the European meaning. Sometimes neoliberal is used instead.

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        2 days ago

        “I can change her”

        Which can actually work. My wife was conservative when I met her because her parents were and she never thought about it much.

        But if I were a woman I wouldn’t date a conservative man. That’s too risky.