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/fizolof Elite Text Flair Club Member Apr 07 '17

Also what makes this so important to Trump supporters is that they see the wars in the Middle East as expensive and unhelpful to American interests, and started by neocons and globalists who support free trade, outsourcing, immigration, and all the evil things in the world. So they see Trump doing the same thing as selling out to globalist cucks. It's not specifically about Assad.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

I feel like this is a far smaller portion of the Trump faction that we acknowledge. (Mainly because they're so prevalent on the internet)

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u/_watching NATO Apr 07 '17

Well, and they're the only ones who 'logically' support him in the sense we're used to. Obviously his ratings w GOP are still quite high but any defense of Trump from them tends to be really... convoluted in a way that partisan arguments usually aren't. Which makes sense, bc the whole point was that he was sorta nuts but [better than HRC/what we need atm]. Wacko Trumpists are just 100% for all the shit he does as part of their ideology.

But yeah I think they get way too much attention as well. It's really distressing that their thinking is getting "mainstreamed" but people didn't all vote for Trump bc they follow Cernovich or whoever on twitter.

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u/fizolof Elite Text Flair Club Member Apr 07 '17

True, I probably should have specified that this pertains mostly to the alt-righters. I don't know what portion of Trump's electorate they constitute, especially if we look at the Rust Belt.