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Explain Like I'm Five

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My younger brother keeps saying he is an Alpha male and bad mouths who he thinks are Beta. Can some one please explain to me what the hell is going on? (lemmy.world)
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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

The opposite of liberal is authoritarian

I'm afraid not. Liberalism is about as "authoritarian" as it gets - or do you classify the ongoing genocide the (so-called) "liberal democracies" are sponsoring in Palestine as (somehow) "non-authoritarian?"

Sadly, “liberal” partys nowadays are mostly economically liberal (i.e. freedom for corporations, deregulation etc.)

That is what they have ALWAYS been.

I’m not from the US

That doesn't matter. Liberalism is a right-wing ideology - even in Antarctica, on Mars, or on the other side of the galaxy.