• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I love that keyboard slacktivists think anything they don’t personally agree with is “neoliberalism.”

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        3 months ago

        Really recommend the book “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era” by Gary Gerstle if you want to know more about what neoliberalism is and what the goals are/we’re and why it’s actively destroying the country.

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          3 months ago

          You are making a lot of assumptions about my knowledge (or lack thereof) on the subject as well as a sizeable one about your depth of knowledge on it.

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        3 months ago

        It’s almost as if social media has only intensified tribalism by giving us two dimensional views of the people we interact with. Our in-group has a diverse set of reasonable ideas, whereas the outgroup is a brainwashed monolith of everything we hate.

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            3 months ago

            100%

            I know I’ve even taken more extreme stances outwardly than I actually believed because I didn’t want to be outcast by my friend group.

            Oddly enough when I became more comfortable to speak my mind in a non-threatening manor to those who trust me, I did get my close circle to show that they weren’t as extreme as the presented themselves either.

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        3 months ago

        You’re not socialist enough unless you are threatening to murder everyone that you think isn’t socialist enough.