• @pjwestin
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    344 hours ago

    Watching David Brooks, of all people, develop more introspection and self-awareness than the entire Democratic party leadership has been a real trip.

  • missingno
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    384 hours ago

    He is not a liberal, he’s the end of liberalism.

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  • @seaQueue
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    114 hours ago

    I like how he completely misses the point even now. We don’t need to end liberalism but we absolutely do need to tax and regulate.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      112 hours ago

      We don’t need to end liberalism but we absolutely do need to tax and regulate.

      Definitely need both. Neoliberalism is a center right to right wing ideology that inherently favors moneyed interests and the status quo over workers and progress.

      Having it as the leftmost ideology of only two political parties with real influence is lunacy.

    • @[email protected]
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      104 hours ago

      Taxes and regulations are bandaid solution to capitalism.

      As we’ve all seen, those with wealth use it to hide it away from taxes and to bribe for relaxed regulations or regulations to stop competitors appearing.

      Liberalism and any other capitalist model need to go.

      • Billiam
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        63 hours ago

        Look, I’m not going to defend capitalism, but

        As we’ve all seen, those with wealth use it to hide it away from taxes and to bribe for relaxed regulations or regulations to stop competitors appearing.

        Is not a problem inherent to capitalism. All of that stems from human greed, which you’re going to have no matter what economic system you try to implement. The solution is to have actual enforcement of your regulatory guardrails.

      • @seaQueue
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        63 hours ago

        I don’t see capitalism ending in the US during our lifetimes so I’ll take any improvement I can get