socialists have not abandoned the most universally recognized leftist symbol lmao

He pulled this type of shit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising.

We’re splitting hairs here but he was a US puppet that happily killed his opposition.

Look, I won’t argue with you on semantics. You’re free to disagree with the common definition of liberalism that socialists use. It’s really just a convenient term for people that are pro-capitalist. It’s not intended to be a nuanced term, and I doubt most reasonable socialists would directly equate Republican fascists with Democratic progressives, even if they see both as problematic.

That’s fine, just understand that you’re using a US-centric framework that differs from what socialists mean when they say “libs”. From our perspective, if you’re pro-western-capitalism (and thus pro-neoliberalism) you’re a lib. Democrats, Republicans, doesn’t matter.