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« on: July 22, 2021, 03:12:08 AM »

Horrible habit on both the far-right and far-left. HP
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« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2021, 08:54:26 AM »

Left wingers tend to use "centrist" rather more IME.
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« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2021, 08:55:03 AM »

HP whether from right-wingers or leftists.
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« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2021, 08:56:59 AM »

Left wingers tend to use "centrist" rather more IME.

I’ve found that the “dirtbag left” is fond of saying “lib”, somewhat as an ironic appropriation of Fox News-level discourse (although, of course, ironic stupidity is still stupidity).
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« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2021, 09:07:45 AM »

HP practice, but many FFs participate in it, unfortunately.
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« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2021, 09:49:30 AM »

Never understood why "lib" wasn't appropriated to call out the Internet Libertarians.
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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2021, 10:08:21 AM »

Like most political humour, it's funniest when self-deprecatory. In general, people do not understand or care about other ideology's opinions and so their jokes will be extremely low tier unobservant points that are often clouded by their own sense of urgency in trying to own the other side. When people bemoan their own side though, that's when it gets both relatively insightful and normally funnier. See: sites like Clickhole are normally very funny when poking fun of people of their own social milieu, but will easily fold to Trevor Noah style Orange Man bad gags when it comes to their opponents. the same is true in the opposition, although I know less about the specifics because I don't remotely care about right wing humour aside from observing that if you account for age gaps, it is fundamentally the same as liberal humour. (I.e. all people in the same cohort have the same comedic stylings regardless of their ideology).
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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2021, 12:28:39 PM »

Most times it is used as an insult is usually in poor taste.
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« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2021, 02:01:00 PM »
« Edited: July 22, 2021, 02:04:15 PM by Big Abraham »

Never understood why "lib" wasn't appropriated to call out the Internet Libertarians.


Because then we'd get the inevitable "ackchyually unlike liberals or conservatives we libertarians are an enlightened species advocating both personal and economic freedom, which is why societies without taxes, public education, employee protection laws, environmental protection laws, or social security are truly the only free" and so on and so on
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