• TheDemonBuer
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    27 days ago

    Neoliberalism isn’t everything I don’t like, but it is a big one.

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            27 days ago

            Neoliberal isn’t made up. It was explicitly created by people like Milton Friedman, and came to prominence as a dominant political theory with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, which then took over the center-left and center-right to become dominant across the global north.

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            27 days ago

            I don’t think you really understand what “woke” is. Being woke is about critical analysis of traditional, established power hierarchies. Hierarchies like white supremacy, patriarchy or class. Maybe some neoliberals, to their credit, want to abolish traditional racial and gender hierarchies, and that’s good, but they certainly do not want to abolish the hierarchy of rich over poor, or capital over labor.

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                26 days ago

                Does McCarthy calling everyone he didn’t like a communist or socialist mean that communism and socialism don’t exist?

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                27 days ago

                and just how centrists call everyone to the left of joe biden ‘tankie’ instead of ‘woke’

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            26 days ago

            Do you ever worry that you might be an idiot?