Mr. Lula´s government has disappointed a lot of people for lacking social changes, inflation, corruption and having turned its backs on left-wing movements. This scandal won´t help him to be reelected nex year.
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Netflix has put up posters around Buenos Aires to promote “El Eternauta”, its new science fiction show based on a comic book from the 1950´s. Some people have pasted photos of the comic book author and his family, who “disappeared” during the Argentine military dictatorship, on the posters.
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That’s a clever wedge issue to use.
Islamabad won’t be able to call in their ally China on this dispute, because China really doesn’t want a precedent on this sort of thing that could impact their ambitions for dams on the Brahmaputra and Mekong river systems.
Not that it will be enough to get them to actually stop funding terrorism, though.
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Things like this remind me of what my geography teacher used to say in the very early 1980ies,
“In 20, 25 years we’ll see wars fought for oil and in 40, 50 years we’ll see wars fought for water.”
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Egad. How can Aussie Liberals be Trumpists? They’re going to give Liberals elsewhere a bad name.
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I tried watching that the other day. I didn’t get much more than halfway through the first episode, the dubbed dialog was absolutely terrible. I didn’t bother trying it in the original with subtitles as it didn’t appear that it would be much better.
Not bad enough to disappear the comic book author over though. 
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Think ‘Neo-Liberal’.
Economically they’re all about free markets and small government. Socially they say they’re basically conservative libertarians, which means in practice that they have the freedom to call you whatever they want when they impose new laws outlawing being poor, queer, disabled, non-Christian, foreign, or a woman, but if you return the favour, they’ll sue you into a molten puddle.
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So not really liberal at all. Labels, indeed words in general, are meaning less and less as time marches on. It won’t be long before we’re incapable of meaningful communication at all. It really is the stupidest timeline.
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There is a reason why socialists don’t like being called liberals. Wait until you find out what the Gladstonian Liberals did in the 19th century.
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Finland’s biggest right wing party Kokoomus (National Coalition Party) is a liberal-conservative party.
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It seems liberalism is or has been a tad less socialist than my Quebec-centric Canadian upbringing would have me believe. I must say that phrases such as “Most liberalism in Europe is conservative…” supports my assertion about the meaninglessness of labels.
Thanks for the additional context @the_borderer and @Heikki
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I find it helpful to remember that “social liberalism” and “economic librralism” are not remotely the same thing.
Quite often, the “liberals” in the conversation are not explicitly saying which kind they are, which leads to confusion.
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Social liberalism happened in the UK because of the failings of Gladstonian liberalism and the Liberal party losing voters to the new Labour party. It’s why the welfare state was started by Winston Churchill (who was a Liberal at the time).
I don’t know about other countries.
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“Fun” fact:
Right-wing stole libertarianism original libertarians are anarchists.
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