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I'm not sure exactly what a liberal is, but nobody seems to like them.
Way too much jargon in the political comms, I feel.
In the US it means exactly "Not conservative (or centrist)". Same as left-wing, progressive, etc. There just isn't really any distinction or nuance, and I only learned after joining Lemmy that outside the US, liberal has a completely different meaning, and basically means capitalist as far as I can tell.
I had the same, although opposite, realization. I'm used to Liberal meaning somewhat right-leaning; rights to private property, personal freedom, limited government, etc. Apparently in the US it's basically a "bad leftist dumb-dumb".
Here it's any leftist of any degree, so yeah, the conservatives use it as an insult, but otherwise it's not.