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America is a liberal nation. Almost every political philosophy has to rephrase itself in terms of liberty in order to get a foothold here.

Depending on the political context, you could be describing anyone from tankies[0] to ancaps to Black Lives Matter. The only commonality between them is that they all used Twitter at one point, a microblogging platform with a hilariously toxic userbase for the amount of attention the media gave it.

I shouldn't have to say this, but being toxic doesn't make you a fascist. Furthermore, political disagreements tend to be self-perpetuating in ways that look like coordination from far away.

[0] Who will insist they aren't liberals, but America doesn't use that definition of "liberal"



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