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  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    If it advocates for Neoliberal polices, speaks for Neoliberal polices, defends Neoliberal polices, yeah I do. Take your concern trolling elsewhere. I’m not going to bootlick for Reagan and every president afterwards.

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      You think the people you’re calling “NeoLibs” above are Reagan fans? Your criteria for neoliberal policies is “supports Ukraine and Israel at the same time” and “is aware of the current reality of Russian disinformation tactics”? Neither of those have anything to do with neoliberalism. I don’t think you know what “concern trolling” means, either.

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        4 months ago

        Neoliberalism was invented to criticize Reagan’s policies. Clinton took those polices with a coat of blue paint. Bush made them worse. Obama continued them. Trump made them worse. Biden continued them.

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          4 months ago

          ^ This is a decently accurate account of how neoliberalism grew to become the dominant economic ideology in the US and Western Europe. Though it was really just a description of Reaganism and Thatcherism at first. Read David Harvey if you disagree.

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            4 months ago

            Weird how I call out bullshit, people ask for proof, I give them proof, they move the goal posts, I give that goal some proof, they move the goalposts.

            It’s like… I know these weirdos when I see them and call them that for a reason.

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        4 months ago

        You’re being pedantic. The dominant ideology of the Democratic party is neoliberalism. Democrats continued neoliberal policies following Reagan, like NAFTA and others. They will consistently defer to the market based solutions and “free enterprise” as opposed to actual socialism. The dominant political user on these platforms (especially .world) are capital D Democrats and liberals. You see this on Reddit a lot in /r/neoliberal.

        This user likely isn’t wrong when using this description as a generalization.