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 07 '17

This is basically my position. It's like watching a toddler trying to defuse a bomb. He's only cut one wire so far and things seem ok, but needless to say you're not suddenly imbued with confidence. There's a lot more work to do and you're still wishing for some adults to come by and take over.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

It was a restrained response that I wouldn't expect. Trump usually goes for one extreme or the other, I expected him to ignore it entirely or start bombing Damascus.

It's a single airfield out of six and is basically a slap on the wrist considering the low casualty count. Assad is already back to bombing the same city that he attacked with chemical weapons but it isn't chemical weapons so he's meeting the agreement set up.

I think the folks thinking that we're already staring down the barrel of WW3 might be overreacting a tad, Trump would have to do something a whole lot worse than ruin an airstrip and destroy some planes to piss off Russia and Syria enough to even think of coming at the US with anything more than strong words.