Love how he accuses opponents of being "Too Online" while writing an entire article to defend his beloved subreddit lmao.
TLDR: Neolibs are the only "practical" group out there, the only ones who look at evidence, blah blah blah, etc. It's as insufferable as you think.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/qzlxjn/biden_mourns_hate_crimes_against_trans_people_and/hlndtn4/
"Neoliberalism is the only reasonable system!"
Neoliberalism: essentially runs the planet for 30+ years and causes infrastructure decay, declining standards of living even in the imperial core, endless imperial wars, and a growing climate crisis that threatens to render Earth uninhabitable
This dork is claiming that they aren't "real" neoliberals because they criticize Reagan and Thatcher. He's saying that they're trying to "reclaim" the term.
I consider the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact the point at which neoliberalism essentially became the only game in town.
I used to post on arrPolitics all the time, I got some 5k and 11k upvoted and gilded posts there, now I NEVER post there anymore and post on the Neoliberal DT every day
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Nah, this person is bragging about their success and pointing out that they willingly left. Which is worse, frankly.
Evidence-based
Translation: one study with an unrepresentative sample pool found one time that charter schools can achieve marginal improvements in one area, so I'm going to use that as an easy substitute for principles.
P.S.: "Hahaha, get it, I use arr like a pirate instead of r/ because they're homophones but the former makes me sound wacky. I am very humorous and not a poorly programmed Turing machine."
The thing about "evidence-based policy" is that it implies that their policy is expertly crafted, finely tuned, and precisely measured. That's fine, obviously everyone believes themselves to be correct, but it's incompatible with their other belief that it's not just necessary but also virtuous to compromise with one's opponents.
Was the original infrastructure bill "evidence-based?" Has each successive, smaller iteration been "evidence-based?" When Joe Manchin finally decides to allow the party to pursue their aims, is he basing his decision on evidence? If you meet (being generous) halfway between your "evidence-based" goals and your opponent's childlike populism, is the resulting compromise still "evidence-based?"
True! But it doesn't really reach the crafted/tuned/measured part because the compromising starts out prior to the policy even being written. And given that there's a think tank for every position, there's a tendency to pick the evidence that fits your policy rather than vice-versa.
Evidence based = think tank crafted and funded. Populist rabble rousing = things everyone wants that will hurt a donor group.
A sub for intellectual children who don't have a material understanding of the world. For them its all just celebrity politicians and "good Arguments."
Furiously sucking my own penis while my left foot is touching the keyboard
I love the utter fucking hypocrisy here of this person clapping back that criticizing Obama on drones is 'Overly Fucking Online' (to dodge from the fact that there is no counter argument), but then reveals beyond a doubt that their own political ideology and understanding of what neoliberalism and progressivism are is shaped entirely by a handful of subreddits alone.
writes 500 words of rambling nonsense about how they're actually quite sane and intelligent
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r/neoliberal was founded and is run by the think tank progressive policy institute
Nearly three years ago, the earliest iteration of the Neoliberal Project came about. It was on a forum where economics students could gather to discuss their field and its policy implications. We called the forum r/neoliberal. We didn’t name it that to make a political statement. Instead, we wanted to poke fun at people who had called us “neoliberals” as a pejorative. But quickly, people began joining our niche forum at a far greater rate than we ever expected. They weren’t joining to discuss econometrics, as we originally intended. People were joining because they desired a place to discuss policymaking online that wasn’t captured by left or right-wing populists. So, knowing we were onto something, we created an organization to house everything we were doing and everything we wanted to do, called the Neoliberal Project.
I was about to say, whoever wrote that post also writes for the Atlantic.
I don’t want to nitpick this douchebag sucking themselves off, but the reason why progressives talk more about student loans than EITC expansion or paternity leave or whatever is because you don’t need Congress to do something about student loans. Nobody’s saying student loan relief would do the most about inequality, it’s just the lowest hanging fruit.
Also the EITC blows since half the people it’s supposed to help out don’t file tax returns so even your lanyard ass shit falls the fuck apart once you spend five minutes thinking about it.
Progressives talk about student loans because the Progressive base is 25-40 year olds with college degrees, i.e. people with the most loan debt. On the other hand, neoliberals care about the stock market and their property values because, as the OP said, they're the adults who "elected Obama", i.e. 35-55 year olds who've started to make it and want to pull the ladder up.
Dua Lipa | Bill Maher
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John Oliver | Sinema
They understand politics entirely thru a lens of Reddit. It's awful.
Wow yeah they got the Delaniacs I totally get why that sub is so active now
"I don't give a shit, that's way too long to read, just tell me why you're doing a Pirate affect."
