• wombat [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    imagine dismissing a source for the sole reason that it isn't mainstream enough

    • GizzKing [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      someone posts an intercept link in the comments and you can guess the response

  • culdrought [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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/

  • Koolio [any]M
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    4 years ago

    What if we compromised between doing horrible stuff and not doing horrible stuff by doing a bit of horrible stuff.

    • Zoift [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      tax cuts plus releasing half of every imprisoned migrant child, everyone wins

    • vaushisapedo [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      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

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • margaretsnatcher2020 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      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