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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 63 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I always say neoliberals will affirm your identity and support your right to be who you are!... As you die in the gutter of exposure and capital defense force brutality. Sorry, free market forces! 🤷

You can't eat pride ribbons. You can't live in pride ribbons. A neoliberal is better than a scapegoating fascist, but so is an empty soda can. Neoliberals are also equally as effective as an empty soda can in opposing fascism, the inevitable outcome of capitalism when left to run amok instead of straightjacketed to serve society as it must be.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Look, what matters here is that everyone is included equally under oppressive capitalist movements which aim to drain of us of our lifeblood and monetize our very cells.

[–] DrivebyHaiku 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Neoliberal doesn't actually mean " The newest Brand of liberal" NeoLibralist regimes historically have also been exceedingly anti-queer. The term was coined in the 80's to describe a burgeoning different brand of liberal government that focused on cutting spending by privatizing swaths of the government. Think Thatcher, Regan and the modern Republican party... See also the early Nazis who historically privatized huge amounts of government to pad the wallets of their supporters but the label was applied retroactively.

If they are getting rid of government services and outsourcing them to a private company that's "Neoliberal politics". You are right that they are effective as an empty soda can at stopping facism but that's because they are usually better positioned to assume power, give up on democracy and go fascist but they aren't the group you're calling out here.

Really the bar for what "liberal" means is a system with a basic set of rights of the person that cannot be infringed upon by the government, universal rights of the person to own stuff (though not all stuff) and a dedication to some kind of democratic system. Basically it's become democracy's basic format and practically everyone in government who isn't a fascist is some variation of liberal or at least playing by Libralism's rules. It's not a statement on socially progressive or socially conservative rhetoric. You're probably better off specifying " Social Progressives" if you want to be accurate to whom you're talking about.

It's kind of the same rules as "NeoClassisism" which isn't constantly updated to mean the newest thing. That term got coined to specifically refer to an art style that is now 300 years old. Neo these days practically never refers to anything cutting edge.

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

so... why didn't the left stop fascism? I hear a lot of talk about killing people, but it's been three months and nothing has happened.

Are we all just yappers?

You can bitch all you want, but the right won, and they won exactly what they wanted. So bitching about it on the left isn't going to make us anymore likely to win, is it?

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (13 children)

We have no leftwing party in the United States

I phone banked for Sanders on 2 campaigns.

I don't see Neoliberals or Fascists as winning, just different degrees of losing.

I no longer have the slightest hope of ever "winning" a prosocial government here. We're too oligarch captured.

I talk and comment to maintain my sanity in an insane capitalist hellscape I lack the power to change.

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[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 28 points 6 days ago

The middle panel is entirely superfluous. Take that out and you have an accurate representation of both the GOP and DNC.

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"I'm a centrist"

Actually republican but doesn't want to admit it

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Neolibs: Half of those people should be women #blm #acab #pride

Ftfy

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Needs some awareness ribbons too.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I do wonder what the makeup of 100 people would have to look like to be perfectly (or as perfect as possible) representative of all demographics, every way we chop them up. Race, nationality, gender identity, sexuality, permanent disfigurement, financial class, whatever.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

There's more than 100 possible combinations of race, nationality, gender identity, sexuality disability, etc, so you couldn't accurately represent the whole human population with 100 people.

you don't need to though. Sure you could represent every european ethnicity, but that seems pretty stupid doesn't it? The optimal solution is to just select people from the global population at complete random. Whatever you get is going to be pretty close. Not perfect, but close enough.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 6 days ago

I am amused by the verbiage of "every way we chop them up" followed by "permanent disfigurement." Which is exactly what they would have if they were chopped up. 😏

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[–] MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 8 points 6 days ago

Dios mio! (Draws a cross.) A LIBERAL!

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