Yeah okay well, person from not the US, here's the thing - "liberal" here, doesn't mean what it apparently does there. So if you've convinced someone that it means something else there, then great - but here - if you go around shouting "Liberal!" at people you come off as a MAGAt fuckwit despite your no doubt bona fides lefty certifications. Because language is like that.

And it's really, really, annoying. Because liberal is a good thing. For us. For our entire lives, liberals were the progressives, the people who made the world better.

Now a shit ton of people who don't live here are screaming at us about being liberals. It's a PITA. If you have to have a disclaimer for your bon mots it's pretty self-defeating. Which is actually not a bad metaphor, really.