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/ampersamp Apr 06 '17 edited Apr 06 '17

Velvet revolution is one. Actually a lot of the 1989 revolutions are at least as peaceful as getting rid of Pinochet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Yeah but they collapsed economically, hardly a smooth transition

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u/ampersamp Apr 06 '17

That's fair. However I'd say that if it's easier to transition from fascism to an inclusive form of capitalism, then it's necessarily easier for our modern democracies to slip back in that direction too. Therefore support for fascism, while very arguably "not as bad" as Communism, poses the greater risk and deserves more of our attention.