• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    Libtard is used by the right wing, no communists I know will use anything ending “-tard” because there’s ableist meaning there. Lib is not a militaristic bad sounding word, it’s the shortening of “liberal” or “libertarian”.

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      6 hours ago

      Good job in calling out the ableism. I’ve reported it, so hopefully the mods clear it up quickly.

      But we do have the more inclusive term of ‘shitlib’, which is a centrist analogue to ‘tankie’ especially so in being ardently uncritical supporters.

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        4 hours ago

        “Shitlib” is not a militaristic sounding word, though. We reserve those only for communists who oppose the western supremacy status quo

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        6 hours ago

        particularly i call people with shallow politics who spend more time virtue signaling than trying to engage on topics of critical analysis shitlibs