most moral ideology on the planet :sus-torment: :sus-torment: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1440670596656861206?s=21
"Pragmatism over populism"
Hold on, let me put the They Live sunglasses on
"All that bullshit we claim to believe about social justice and progress goes out the window the second rich people say no"
Ah that's more like it
"Black Lives Matter really has the worst optics. We agree with the message, but fuck the movement. But also fuck the message."
“The free flow of people and goods” is so funny to me because somehow it always ends up only being the goods that can cross the borders freely. The people must stay in their cages to keep wages low so they will make the cheap goods.
The bourgeoisie can cross borders freely too, and that's the only ones that count as "people" to neoliberals. Skilled migrants they can feel good about, and kids in cages, the neoliberal way.
No, no, no, you can move wherever you'd like, you just can't have political rights or access to that "generous safety net" unless you have the right piece of paper.
"Deregulate the barriers" just means "let capital build taller barriers"
Deregulate the barriers to housing :mao-aggro-shining:
:wojak-nooo: Nooo! Not like that!
And then the inevitable part where they become fascists and it turns into
:pit: NOOO NOT LIKE THAT
Oh dang we want to do the good parts of our platform, but there's just too much institutional resistance. But the good news is, it's really easy to do the bad parts!
"We successfully gutted welfare, and we'll get around to replacing it with a Negative Income Dividend in ... 80 years ... maybe."
neoliberalism is the complete destruction of all social safety nets. that's one of the number one goals. bootstraps, etc. wtf is this about it's basically just social democracy-lite (which is also shit).
Promise the safety nets but actually dismantle them because they're just not pragmatic, sweaty.
it's actually wild to me that people like this somewhat believe in climate change and then think just a tax on carbon will be sufficient. like, that's all they come up with after researching the subject.
It's a way for rich people to feel like they're doing something, while not fundamentally changing their lifestyle or social structures in any way.
Item 4 reminds me of how libs in the Obama era would talk about how important illegal immigrants were because they worked insanely exploitative jobs for very little money, which kept fruit cheap, and how great that was.
I can't believe that you can acknowledge this point and not come to the conclusion of "pay workers more and use the CEO's profits to reduce the price of food"
robust social safety net
:doubt: I have a feeling we have very different meanings of the word "robust"
Social safety net can be provided by private companies like Uber. You think people should just sit around without jobs or improving skills? /s
Free flow of people is (implicitly) only for "skilled" workers. Which often actively harms poorer nations as many professionals flee to go to richer nations.
If you look at their actual political practice, neolibs only believe in the "free market" one, and even that is shaky at times. The rest is empty bullshit.
