everyone on that sub is a sociopath and needs to be put in front of a firing squad
imagine dismissing a source for the sole reason that it isn't mainstream enough
Neolibs 100% down with an unscientific studies by Adrian Zenz as proof of genocide in China, but won't believe a practicing nurse (backed up by years of detainee stories) until her story is more mainstream. No critical thought whatsoever when it comes to defending their bastion of economic privilege
someone posts an intercept link in the comments and you can guess the response
Also the US has been forcibly sterilising prisoners for decades
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
This is whataboutism and distracts from our new Cold War with China.
What if we compromised between doing horrible stuff and not doing horrible stuff by doing a bit of horrible stuff.
Look, I know this looks horrible. But hold on a second, nobody's perfect and im sure they had good intentions. Just wait a while, VOTE, and they'll work the kinks out of the system in no time. I have full faith we'll have well-reasoned & means-tested atrocities by the next election cycle.
tax cuts plus releasing half of every imprisoned migrant child, everyone wins
"It’s scary that people like this exist." Gee, it's a good thing these people don't run the world, huh?
bizarre and revealing immediate reaction to have
Petite bourgeoisie mindset: "fascism isn't real fascism because I'm a good person" (Chapo Chat lol)
Neoliberals are just fascists without the traditional nationalism.
Some interesting historical debate here: there is a school of theory claiming that, the early stage of Mussolini regime, their economical polices were in fact, neoliberal.
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/119862/1/827362668.pdf
Check Out this cool dude "Classical Liberal"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_de%27_Stefani
Also Radio War Nerd had an episode explaining this school of historical reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6f0XT6yS7M
I've come across Alberto de Stafani before, but that in depth paper is really interesting, thanks. Radio War Nerd always brings the goods too.
There were several comments in that thread about abolishing ice which is nice
Don't kid yourself, one of the critical voices there is me, sometimes when I feel especially masochistic I try to stirr up shit and radicalise people there
Chris Matthews and his gulag need to get to the park ASAP. We need to “talk”
it's because deep down they know by now the camps and the systems and the processes were placed by obama and biden so this is blind apologia / defence of what their boys and nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, diane feinstein, debbie wasserman schultz, clintons, steny hoyer, Eliot Engel, Evan Bayh, and all the other neoliberal establishment corporatists fascist collaborator democrats have done