Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, providing an encouraging sign for his administration's environmental efforts.
  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Capitalists have been trying to steal the term multiple times — there is nothing liberal, liberties or freedom under the hierarchy of capitalism. Liberal is relative, and relatively speaking it’s anticapitalist.

    Newspeak is invented all the time. It’s everyone’s responsibility not to accept fake rhetoric

      • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Every time I apply something liberally, somewhere a right winger gets a pain in their shoulder and can’t heil for a while, and capitalism crumbles a bit more

      • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Someone should really update Wikipedia, they’re still in the year 1723 with this anticapitalist description

        Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, and equality before the law.[1][2][3] Liberals espouse various views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion,[11] constitutional government, privacy rights, and regulations on the role of technology in the private and public sectors.