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If you're going to be a radical leftist, be the "liberalism has betrayed the working class" instead of "daddy Stalin's cum tastes nice 🥵".
The concept of Liberalism is literally the same as supporting human rights.
The two of you swapped your L's
"Liberalism" is the right-wing one the OP meant, "liberalism" is the overarching concept that is more commonly called "leftism" these days because of the whole "a party called the Liberals existed and were right wing" thing
I gotta ask, what exactly is the difference between the Obama "Dronestrikes On Arabs Is Never Wrong" Dickrider Liberal and the Stalinist "driving over Hungarian fascists with your tank is cool af, aktuly" Leftist?
Because I hear a lot about these Far-Left Tankies. But then I see Western so-called Progressives flood their shorts every time we sodomize leadership in Libya with a rusty knife or carpet bomb hospitals in Gaza or unleash another wave of hack mercenaries on Venezuela. Hell, even MacArthur's saturation bombing of the Korean Peninsula gets love. Does anyone actually oppose foreign military interventionism? Or is it just taboo when a leftist military leader does it?
The first group actually doesn’t really exist AND the group that gets assigned to that category tends to agree that extrajudicial air strikes are bad.
If the first group actually existed in the way they get categorized and imagined they’d be equally as bad, if not worse for being that dumb in a society where they are “allowed” to know better and think differently, vocally.
...Why would you? That's the right thing to do sometimes. We could have totally stayed on the sidelines in WWII in Europe, and only gone to war in the Pacific, because that shit was absolutely not our problem, right?
We should, for instance, be intervening in Myanmar, and in Rojava. We should be protecting the Kurds--esp. since we said we would--from Syria and Turkiye. We should be helping the rebels in Myanmar, since they're just trying to get basic human rights from a dictatorial military regime.
Does that mean that the US is perfect? Absofuckinglutely no. Not even close. Is capitalism great? Nope. Is authoritarian communism better? LOL, no.
This appears to be the root of it. America gets some sort of ideological benefit-of-the-doubt, such that My Lai Massacres and engineered famines in Cuba and Korea and blacksite prisons that use genital mutilation to extract confessions are degrees shy of perfection rather than war crimes, atrocities, and holocausts.
Is your problem with the authoritarianism or the communism?
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism