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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Dec 2018
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      I just tried searching for “liberals” on twitter and tagging usage. Rough proportions I found: “Liberal” = Generic godless non-conservative: 35% SJW/identitarian: 25% Progressive/socialist welfare statist: 20% Big-banks-globalist neoliberal: 15% Classical liberal/Whig: 5%

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Dec 2018
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      a) Someone should do this with a large corpus and a rigorous tagging methodology. b) The term is now officially a dumpster fire of wildly incompatible intensions c) This is no longer a fussy academic confusion, it’s a mass, vernacular confusion. It’s a term of rude art.

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Dec 2018
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          I wonder just how much this particular confusion adds to General dumpster fire state of political discourse. It’s like people having different beliefs about whether you drive on the left or right. Even with no road rage or bad driving there’s going to be high accident rate.

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        2. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb 10 Dec 2018
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          All this may be true, but then again it may not matter since the one thing they all have in common is that they don't vote Republican, and r.n. that's all that really matters.

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          I strongly suspect some flavors vote gop in significant numbers

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        1. Sobbing as I subscribe to my ex-wife's OnlyFans‏ @devanmiller 10 Dec 2018
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          This is a long read but it changed my entire outlook on what the US party system and its labels actually, materially function as. It's a brain bug I haven't been able to shake. Highly recommend.https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/07/electoral-rules-third-party-ballot-line-ocasio-cortez-dsa …

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        2. Sobbing as I subscribe to my ex-wife's OnlyFans‏ @devanmiller 10 Dec 2018
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          This. The US doesn't actually have party system in useful sense of the term, since parties imply an agenda produced by its voting body & held to account. We rly have 2 institut'l gates, 1 which must be walked thru in order to access politics at all. Lib/con are fluid descriptors.

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