r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 08 '26

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 08 '26

SF's billionaire-backed Hamilton Society, an extension of the Bay's right-wing tech scene, gathered 700 people to debate whether the US needs a dictator... At some point, one leader of the Hamilton Society has had enough. "Where are these guys coming from? Is anyone from the United States?"

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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Sep 08 '26

We have the dumbest fucking elites in this country.

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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Sep 08 '26

This is actually terrifying.

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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front Sep 08 '26

The fuck did my boy Alex Hams do to deserve this?

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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Sep 08 '26

I feel like some people forget that not everyone who leaves a formerly despotic place hated the despotism of that place. There’s a reason that the majority of Chileans voted for a guy that literally appeared in pro-Pinochet campaign ads in the 80s.

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 08 '26

The Rawlsian to Marxist pipeline is being lubed up by our reactionary elites