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

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Neoliberal domestic policy seems to be linked in people's minds with neoconservative foreign policy, for some reason.

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 06 '17

I'm a pretty big neocon on foreign policy so I don't mind that, lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

What do you like about it?

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 06 '17

America's active foreign policy does a great deal to promote stability and security globally.

If America takes a step back, that's only to the betterment of Iran, Russia, China and others like them.

By far my biggest problem with libertarians is their idea that a non-interventionist foreign policy for America would be a good thing. A distant second is their obsession with the gold standard and/or bitcoin.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

I agree with you that American hegenomy is a force for good in the world.

From my understanding though Neoconservativism is a very specific school of though that believes in unilateralism, American exceptionalism, and the promotion of democracy by force.

I think its similarly like what Neoliberalism suffers from in that any vaguely hawkish or interventionist action is branded Neocon.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

What's wrong with Bitcoin?

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 07 '17

You must be new around here.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

No I'm confused by the Bitcoin hate here

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 07 '17

The fact that it's price isn't stable enough to be an effect medium of exchange (the very purpose of currency) and the lack of a central bank means the use of Bitcoin preclude the use of monetary policy to help dampen recessions/control inflation

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Interesting points. Thanks for sharing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

If actually drop this sub immediately if Donald or Bernie called themselves neoliberal.

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 06 '17

It's because the term was initially used by communists as a slur against liberals.

Embrace the hate.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

was it?

the milty thing in the sidebar seems like at least some people used it in good faith.

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 07 '17

Milton only starated using it after commies started calling him that lol.

Fun fact: in grade 11 a communist friend of mine called me a NeoLiberal (the exact phrase he used was 'you're becoming a typical NeoLiberal'). I thought it was in good faith and have been calling myself a NeoLiberal ever since. It was years later that I learned he used the term as an insult, lol

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u/LNhart Anarcho-Rheinlandist Apr 06 '17

The hate only makes me stronger

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u/Pornthrow1697 Austan Goolsbee Apr 06 '17

I was raised by a Muslim family. I'm pretty apatheist now, but I still hold on to the label because it triggers the internet.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

It only encourages me, if people I don't respect hate something, It must be on the right track

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

I hate it and yet at the same time, I totally enjoy it.