They'll complain.. threaten lawsuits, demand things they don't earn, then sue you. Oh yes they will.
They'll demotivate your good people.
They'll trash you online anonymously.
They'll make you look bad. They'll lose your customers.
They'll steal.
They'll use their pay to degrade society by financially contributing to abhorrent causes and people through their purchases.
MAKE. THE. MOTHERFUCKERS. SUFFER. Eliminate their influence by degrading their lives
Are those people Liberals, or Progressives?
Ask them if Socialism works for anything. If they start telling you Socialism is an answer to any question, they're fucking Progressives.
Are we going to let Progressives and Socialists redefine everything? Oh, I guess that means racism means power+privilege. I guess that means sex actually means gender and you can be any gender you want. Oh, I guess that means conservative means Nazi.
You might be tired of other people's shit, but being fast and loose with your definitions because you don't feel like spending the energy to be precise isn't going to win any fucking points with me. Conservatives are getting their shit pushed into the dirt because they're not paying attention to what's happening around them and Liberals are getting hunted to extinction because they keep stupidly wandering into areas marked "Liberal" that are actually fucking commie hellholes.
We either learn the political philosophies that are at play in our AO, or we get picked apart by people that spend their entire lives studying the ideas of their subversive overlords.
They're not Socialists, buddy. Hate to break it to you.
I have Socialists in my extended circle too -- impossible to avoid here, but being a conservative myself, I've never formed close relationships with those people.
These are all seemingly normal employed individuals who "want to be on the right side of history" and "can't stand what Trump has done to US Foreign Relations" and "won't allow racism to proliferate because they were raised better"!
Some are atheists, some of them are Christians. Many are Jewish.
All of them are people I've built a life around and included at milestone life events. And now they're making "mayocide" jokes on social media about how "whites need to be put in reeducation camps". (Because POC can't be conservative, in their world.)
What does their religion have to do with them not being Socialists? Look at how much the Protestant churches are being overrun with socialist-pushing pastors now. Look at how man early Communist agitators and modern socialists thought leaders of today are Jewish. And atheists? Communism makea atheism mandatory.
I really need to understand why you made that as part of your argument that they're not Socialists. Do you know people can identify as more than one thing depending on the context of the question?
Also, if they're talking about putting people into re-education camps or ethnic cleansing, how can you say they're not Socialists? That's Socialism 101. Where in Liberal Political philosophy does ethnic cleansing or concentration camps play any part?
You say you have Socialists in your extended contacts, so I assume that's through the Progressives you say are Liberals. You've only solidified the evidence against the people you're claiming are Liberal as actually being Progressives.
I understand everything you are saying -- but you've missed one point.
Progressives have overrun what it means to be Liberal. They control the narrative for what Liberalism is today.
I know the "classic definition of a Liberal" does not conform with the Progressive shit that's being shoehorned into people's lives today.
But that doesn't matter at all. Because even if words used to mean one thing, once society changes the meaning of a word -- it loses the original meaning.
Gay used to just mean happy, not so long ago.
As a result of this, people who have defined themselves as Liberal, and were raised to be Liberal, among communities that taught them that "being a Liberal" is a good thing -- those people are sucked into the Progressive whirlpool just because the very nature of Liberalism has been redefined.
If they want to continue identifying with the core Liberal Identity they've worn all their lives, then they'd better get in line and do the "Liberal" song and dance of Orange Man Bad & Punch Nazis!!!
And I've described to you what that sounds like, above. My friends and peers are sharing memes about putting Conservatives in camps, and calling for the "mayocide" of US whites.
This is my problem with conservatives. You let the ideologucal enemies of the US, Socialists, redefine and repurpose language to suit their needs all of the time. You constantly fight on their terms and give ground never to take any back.
The Progressives who call themselves Liberal without espousing a single liberal value while also spewing endless Socialist talking points are the same people that say War is Peace, Ignorance is Knowledge, and Hate is Love. Instead of just calling them out for the liars that they are, you are instead going to say they won and give them that ground?
I love my Conservative brothers and sisters, but your willingness to cede ground and habit of being outmanuevuered all of the time linguistically and philosophically is immensely frustrating.