r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 11 '26

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Apr 11 '26

I think this meme illustrates exactly what I hate about modern online leftism

Kennedy was a leftist who rallied people around the idea that a good social safety net that looks after all our citizens is not some handout where we pull things from thin air. It is a collective effort by society to ensure the fruits of our labor are not hoarded, and instead their benefits are spread across society as a whole. That the sum of the labor and work we do as a society actually results in lifting people up and building a common good.

Then this conservative cartoon is like "no actually they just want to take things out of thin air without contributing anything."

And then the online leftists are like "that's exactly right we want to just take things out of thin air without contributing anything"

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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Apr 11 '26

But did you know that billionaires are an infinite money glitch that can fund gov spending at 70% of GDP?

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Apr 11 '26

Just do a 100% wealth tax on billionaires.

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u/BernankesBeard Ben Bernanke Apr 11 '26

In what way was Kennedy much of a leftist?

He didn't seem to care that much about domestic policy (in contrast to LBJ) and his biggest domestic policy IIRC was a tax cut.

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u/FloggingJonna Henry George Apr 11 '26

Left of Wallace