Liberation Day

An event on the 2nd April 2025 where the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, announced he would impose "reciprocal tariffs" on most countries on Earth, including a island only inhabited by penguins, to "bring back manufacturing back to America". Shortly after this announcement global stock markets crashed the worst since 2020. A few days later Trump suspended the tariffs for 90 days, even thought they were meant to be permanent.

Penguin 1: "Hey man Donald Trump just put a 10% tariff on us on Liberation Day"
Penguin 2: "I can't believe this, we should protest"

by Stormy_Tanker0 April 30, 2025

Liberal Totalitarianism

The paradox of a system that enforces a specific, expansive vision of individual rights and procedural tolerance with such ideological rigidity that it becomes illiberal and coercive. It demands not just tolerance, but active celebration and ideological conformity on a range of social issues, punishing deviation from its progressive orthodoxy through social shaming, deplatforming, and professional cancellation. The "freedom" it offers is the freedom to agree; dissent is pathologized as a form of mental or moral sickness.

Example: "The university's Liberal Totalitarianism was clear: you were free to hold any opinion, as long as it aligned with the officially sanctioned social justice framework. A professor questioning a particular aspect of gender theory was not debated; he was reported to the DEI office for 'creating a harmful climate.' The tyranny wasn't in banning books, but in making certain thoughts professionally and socially suicidal to voice."

by AbzuInExile February 1, 2026

Liberal Orwellianism

The manipulation of language and information within liberal societies to control political discourse. It involves redefining words ("freedom," "violence," "safety"), using bureaucratic euphemisms to obscure unpleasant realities, and constructing media narratives that frame complex issues in simplistic, morally binary terms to enforce ideological conformity. The goal is to control the conceptual framework through which events are understood, making dissenting viewpoints literally unspeakable.

*Example: "The Liberal Orwellianism was in the press release: 'The department engaged in a diversity-enhanced restructuring.' Translation: they fired the old white guys. 'The protest was mostly peaceful.' Translation: 95% stood around while 5% burned a police station. The language wasn't describing reality; it was manufacturing a politically useful simulation of it, making honest debate impossible."*

by AbzuInExile February 1, 2026

Liberace Stare

When a man straddles another man while he's driving.

I was in the backseat when Sal pulled a Liberace stare on Todd. I asked them to pull over because I felt unsafe.

by Kennethry February 27, 2026

liberism

Economic liberal meassures and/or theories in favour of eliminating market intervention, coined in italian by Benedetto Croce and popularised in english by Giovanni Sartori

In Croce’s eyes, “unhindered capitalism” was liberism, not Liberalism.

by Ninjaturtle10 March 12, 2026

Liberal Campism

A specific form of Reverse Campism and Pro-Western Campism centered on liberal democracy and its institutions as the object of loyalty and defense. Liberal Campism describes those who, whatever their nominal ideology, consistently align with liberal democratic powers, frameworks, and interventions—defending NATO expansion as "spreading freedom," justifying Western military intervention as "humanitarian," treating liberal democracy as the unquestioned horizon of political possibility. The liberal campist doesn't see themselves as taking sides; they see themselves as defending universal values. But the pattern of which particular interventions they defend, which particular violations they excuse, which particular empires they serve reveals the camp: always the West, always the liberal powers, always the self-proclaimed defenders of freedom.

Example: "He condemned human rights abuses everywhere—except when committed by NATO members, which were always 'complicated' or 'necessary' or 'not the same.' Not hypocrisy, just Liberal Campism: the West is always the exception."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Liberal Orthodoxy

The established, institutionalized set of beliefs that define mainstream liberalism—the often-unexamined assumptions about individual rights, freedom, equality, democracy, and progress that shape liberal societies. Liberal orthodoxy includes commitments: that individuals are the primary unit of society, that freedom means absence of coercion, that rights protect individuals from the state, that democracy is the best form of government, that progress happens through reform rather than revolution, and that liberal institutions (markets, courts, elections) are fundamentally just. Like all orthodoxies, it provides a framework for political thinking, but it can also function as ideology—making liberal arrangements seem natural and inevitable, obscuring their limitations and exclusions, and delegitimizing alternatives. Liberal orthodoxy determines what counts as "reasonable" political discourse, what policies are within the "overton window," and who counts as a "serious" political thinker versus a radical or reactionary.

Example: "He couldn't understand why anyone would question liberal democracy—not because he'd examined its limitations, but because liberal orthodoxy had made it seem like simply the way civilized societies organize themselves. The orthodoxy was invisible to him because he was inside it."

by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026