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Mask off R*ddit libs defending Biden's word choice
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Prescriptivism is bullshit, the definition of a word is how it is used and how the word is used is its definition. Even if it isn't, the dictionaries I've looked at give multiple definitions for the word.
Maybe I'm just so indoctrinated that the knots and twists don't feel all that knotty or twisty. I just disagree that it's pointless to make note of these divisions. Some people are trying to make the world a better place, and some people are trying to make it worse.
Communists
Liberals
It's not prescriptivism, you're misusing that word, what's actually happened here is that you've fallen for a political misnomer or a series of political misnomers
Liberalism has a basis in historical socio-economic practice that runs into the present day, its multiple schools of thought from; social liberalism, ordoliberalism, neoclassical econ, Keynesianism, the Austrian school etc. define and shape not only the contours of higher learning, but the whole political matrix of the entire earth, and all those schools make a mockery of the common "colloquial" understanding
The so-called "presciptivist" definition is the one that accurately describes the liberalism in the heads of the powerful, the wealthy, the influential, their mentors, their brokers, their guard dogs, their scientists, their theorists, their planners.....basically it's the liberalism that has actual power and acts as the software for capitalism's hardware; and I'm telling you now friend, you won't find that info in a dictionary
Really? You think it's worthwhile to play No True Scotsman with a half-dozen different flavors of liberalism? It doesn't matter what you or those people claim to be or believe; it's the ideas, values, epistemology, and actually existing political structures that they defend that truly define who they are
“Both” types of liberals fall into the latter category.
"The most progressive president since FDR" is adopting Trump border policies, calling undocumented immigrants "illegals" that are dangerous to you and yours, and abetting a genocide of Palestinians. Dems are happily falling in line and are already gearing up for their attempt to shame each other into holding the line despite it obviously meaning nothing every four years.
No twists and turns?