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65 Post author: Yvain 03 November 2012 11:00PM

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Comment author: MugaSofer 08 November 2012 11:33:07AM *  0 points [-]

I'm ... not American.

Comment author: MixedNuts 08 November 2012 11:40:45AM 2 points [-]

Europe!"liberal" means "strongly for economic freedom, weakly for social regulation", so pretty much right-wing. US!"liberal" means "for economic regulation, strongly for social freedom", so totally left-wing.

Comment author: MugaSofer 08 November 2012 11:46:13AM *  0 points [-]

Europe!"liberal" means "strongly for economic freedom"

Not ... particularly. We're all over the map on the economy in my experience. I don't even know what you mean by "social regulation"; are we talking abortion?Freedom of speech? What?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 09 November 2012 02:36:55AM 1 point [-]

I don't even know what you mean by "social regulation"; are we talking abortion?Freedom of speech? What?

Abortion, drug use, various alternative lifestyles.

Comment author: MugaSofer 09 November 2012 09:46:00AM 0 points [-]

Well, I'm not sure about drug use, but liberals here are generally OK with abortion and most alternative lifestyles.