It has been co-opted by authoritarians, but it used to be liberal as in liberty. They call us "Classical liberals" now or Libertarians.

It's all a words game. Don't let them fool you with tricks and labels. this is all they want: you, to have a label. JUST BE A MAN. A sovereign man that is doing his own business.

fuck the rest, fuck'em'all

A liberal interpretation of the US Constitution.

Somewhere between 3 & 4

Left wing is liberal? Maybe regarding drugs but the rest?

Other. It never meant anything. For instance, so-called Classical Liberals held a huge range of incompatible beliefs:

Just like Classical Liberalism, modern Liberalism means nothing, because it is applied to people with radically different beliefs.

Liberals mostly value the "individual liberties" that most western liberal democracies provide. It is as simple as that, anything that can put the liberties of an individual at risk, even for a greater "good", is a major red flag.

Of course that nothing in this world is binary or black&white, so for society to work certain compromises/tradeoffs are required, so each liberal will have his own threshold on any given topic.

Of course things are viewed differently depending on the country, in some countries liberals are placed on the right on other countries they are viewed as left, but it mostly depends on the existing political parties and scene on that specific country.

But evaluating a messy and complex "world" using a single dimension model (left vs right) is dumb anyway.

The word has been hijacked

I thought it simply mean freedom

Afaik liberals were the founding fathers of the west, but lately it has lost its meaning