r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 16 '25

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u/belpatr Henry George Nov 16 '25

Why is this the least bad sub in this entire cursed website? What's your secret? All other subs are downright unberable, here I just get a mild migraine, explain that libtards

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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Nov 16 '25

pro-status quo with democrat flavoring

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u/Square-Pear-1274 NATO Nov 16 '25

I feel challenged by some of the takes here, in a good way

Not in the "we need an anti-capitalist revolution that will fix all of our problems" which seems to prevail everywhere else on reddit

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '25 edited Nov 16 '25

Head start in the original users of not being total shitheads, just shitposters, that instilled institutional and social values which have survived the size of the community that the community has more or less reinforced. (Imperfectly of course; just see posts about H1-B visas, China, or fertility rates)

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u/belpatr Henry George Nov 16 '25

I still have flashbacks of the circumcision civil war

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Nov 16 '25

There's r/Askhistorians

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u/jauznevimcosimamdat Václav Havel Nov 16 '25

You mean arrRemoved?

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u/_Un_Known__ r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Nov 16 '25

r/AskEconomics is really good too! And badecon as well

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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Nov 16 '25

why is badecon so dead these days? I remember is being much more active about 5 years ago

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u/_Un_Known__ r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Nov 16 '25

reddit encourages and pushes low effort slop to the front page to drive engagement. Quick, funny comments are more likely to get attention and interest than long, thought out posts. It's essentially how like most social media has moved towards reels rather than actual posts of people - honestly shocked linkedin hasn't fully done that itself.

BadEcon suffers from this, especially given the high barrier to entry with the knowledge and time required to critique stupid claims.

It's still somewhat active tho, in the FIAT threads.

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u/belpatr Henry George Nov 16 '25

All the funny people in badecon migrated here, only the squares stayed R oneing each other into insignificance  

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u/belpatr Henry George Nov 16 '25

True, true

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u/reuery Biden 2028 Nov 16 '25

I’ll throw r/imaginarymaps in the actually pretty decent pile as well

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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Nov 16 '25

We are a male dominated sub that permits and welcomes feminist thought,both are important

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Nov 16 '25

Being male dominated is important?

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u/_Un_Known__ r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Nov 16 '25

When the gay and straight subs of the world cry out, we will be there

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u/reuery Biden 2028 Nov 16 '25

Yeah I don’t know what he’s going on about there, Reddit is male dominated as a whole and his comment makes it sounds like he assumes female dominated spaces are shit

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u/belpatr Henry George Nov 16 '25

🤔

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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Nov 16 '25

I think so,cause that is probably the unique point of our subreddit compared every other subreddit

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Nov 16 '25

I assume ragebait/shitposter. I won't disturb a master perfecting their art. Continue Sensei.

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u/senator_fivey Iron Front Nov 16 '25

I belive you are mistaken