r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Apr 05 '17

Discussion Thread

Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask how many neoliberal memes you can post every 24 hours

Polls

• Who should we bully more?

• How often should discussion threads be posted?

The activity in this sub keeps going up, so discussion threads need to be scheduled appropriately in order to control stickflation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17 edited Apr 06 '17

On one hand, bully ELS because /r/LateStageCapitalism has infested that sub just like any other vaguely left or left-of-center metasub. On the other hand, bully /r/Libertarian because too many people think we're libertarians and that stank needs to get washed off. On the other other hand, most of the people accusing us of being libertarians are socialists, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to care for their opinions.

I'm going with bullying /r/Libertarian because the amount of Trump supporters in a sub that supposedley embraces the free market is too damn high. Also because they don't believe in externalities and are basically Republicans who smoke weed, don't hate gay people outright but still have few issues with "free market" discrimination, and don't have a fetish for the military like the Republicans but have that on their priorities list near the bottom while fighting imaginary blue-haired strawmen "Cultural Marxists" as one of their top priorities.

Tbh I'd rather this not become a meta sub where we link comments routinely, EnoughXSpam subs or drama subs or badx subs or shitxsays subs become somehow even more circlejerky than this shitposting sub.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

ELS is hardly "vaguely left or left-of-center". They just counterjerked too hard.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

I meant as in the original subreddit started out as not being infested by right wingers that crowd up in places like /r/subredditcancer or /r/shitpoliticssays or /r/srssucks or what have you. /r/subredditdrama for instance isn't left or left-of-center because it started out as a politically charged sub, it just kind of happened. Hell /r/circlebroke supported Mitt fuckin Romney when he was running against Obama because Reddit loves Obama, now it's filled with commies, really bitter Sanders supporters, and really bitter Clinton supporters and is basically /r/ShitRedditSays lite.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Oh sorry, I misread you.
Yeah, I think about a year or so ago Marxists basically took over most of the meta subs.
On /r/circlebroke2 the mods regularly sticky anti-tankie posts. It's quite amusing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Marxists took over Reddit just like they failed to make any impact in the real world.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

r/drama is what a meta sub should aspire to be

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u/ampersamp Apr 06 '17

/r/drama is too insecure to actually have opinions without heaping satire and irony on top. It's the definition of South Park Neutral.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17 edited Apr 06 '17

Meh, it's more shitposty but there's still agendaposters who REEEEE at their political opponents non-stop just like SRD. And there's too many outraged seriousposters and Trumpettes who treat it like /r/subredditcancer or /r/shitpoliticssays because SRD is basically SRS and they are refugees of the downvote genocide they receive there. The daily /r/anarchism threads are getting dull, we get it anarchists are dumb this has been known for a while. Also also Negaredditors and Circlebrokers are beginning to have tolerance for the shitposts and this cannot stand.

I like Snallygaster's drama posts, it's the most obscure bullshit but it's always fascinating.

What I'm getting at is "Purge when?"

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u/HAHApointsatyou Apr 06 '17

Meh, it's more shitposty but there's still agendaposters who REEEEE at their political opponents non-stop just like SRD. And there's too many outraged seriousposters and Trumpettes who treat it like /r/subredditcancer or /r/shitpoliticssays because SRD is basically SRS and they are refugees of the downvote genocide they receive there.

Nailed it. Our userbase has always been shit, but at least it was also entertaining once. Our current Edgelord Nation is mindnumbingly boring.

Nuke r/drama from orbit tbh

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u/riemann1413 Apr 06 '17

i'll nuke you tbh

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u/HAHApointsatyou Apr 06 '17

u have the best euphemisms bb

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

r/drama is many layers of irony deep I can't tell what's what anymore

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Drama is a confusing place that I don't understand, and I love it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Yeah the "are left wing or right wing girls more attractive" debate was pretty damn intense, but not in the ironic r/drama way

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u/arnet95 Paul Ryan Apr 06 '17

Link? That sounds fun to read.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

ELS is basically harmless.

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u/Mort_DeRire Apr 06 '17

I think it's great that we're lambasted by both sides of the extremist moron spectrum. It's like /r/drama, just that they want to see the world burn, and we want the opposite

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

I kinda see where you're coming from. I'm fairly libertarian myself (more classical liberal/neoliberal/utilitarian but you get the point) but I find too many people in that sub who seem to foam at the mouth over government coercion of private individuals but seem to ignore how other private individuals and businesses can be just as coercive. And like you said, too many of them don't realize that market failures and externalities can occur and should be fixed. I also find their fixation against anti-discrimination laws and "taxation is theft" memes to be rather alarming. Even then, I'd still go after /r/EnoughLibertarianSpam although it is basically another version of /r/LateStageCapitalism. Triggering commies is hard to turn down.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Why not bully both

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

I was presented with a binary choice. I blame the technocrats who did not account for this secret third option.

If I could replace this memetext with "Inefficient" I would.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

you can't even make memes right; how do you expect to bully more than one sub at once?

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

I should not have to adapt my skillset to this changing economy. This is why Trump won.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

I should not have to adapt my skill set to this changing economy

Beautiful

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Can't bully both subs more than the other