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  • Wow, that is not what I expected Neoliberalism to mean. Thank you for the lesson. When I read about Neo-(x-political-term) I generally think of new ideas around it, not ideas reaching back to WWII. My biggest concern after reading your link is:

    The term has multiple, competing definitions, and is often used pejoratively.

    Also, the last few paragraphs of Current Usage emphasize it's use as a dog whistle:

    "Several writers have criticized the term "neoliberal" as an insult or slur used by leftists against liberals and varieties of liberalism that leftists disagree with."

    and

    "the word is nothing more than a political slur, or a term without any analytic power"

    I still think it would serve us all to be more precise about what exactly is failing us.

  • They were doing pretty good until they blamed everything on neoliberalism, what a fucking joke

    Edit: If the wikipedia page wasn't clear enough, the 14 definitions and comments below should show that the term "neoliberalism" is a broken dog whistle at best. You might as well go outside and yell at the clouds while you're at it.

  • i'm not saying "don't say dude"

    You literally told me to “die in a house fire” for doing this, 3 comments ago. What the fuck.

    You clearly understand that it can be used casually without malice from this very comment.

  • I’ve already explained in this thread that on the mobile client (both Memmy and Wefwef), pronouns are not displayed. After this comment, I had to log on to desktop just to see what everyone was on about.

    I’m here to confirm that it was a proverbial use of “dude”, like you might see used in movies such as The Big Labowski, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Good Burger. It is pretty well established in the west that dude is used for about anyone.

    I understand now that this might not be the case everywhere and I am truly sorry for any misunderstanding related to gender that I have caused here.

  • Funny, I've kept my sights specifically on the troll farmers. You seem to be the one trying to leverage it into racism as some kind of ad hominem towards me. It's fine, I understand you can't keep up your focus on the losing argument at hand, so you have to redirect.

  • You can project lots of different things. marx_mentat was attempting to project how liberals are the "Loudest and Dumbest" people on here. But in reality, he was really... self-projecting... oh shit. Did you see that? How that makes sense now? Nice try.