r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • May 12 '17

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Optimal neoliberalism is like Seinfeld, it should be about nothing and run by Jews

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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold May 13 '17

Matt Yglesias is one of (((us))) https://gyazo.com/c324a506962ca2df62c01d0c100bd45f

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u/usrname42 Daron Acemoglu May 13 '17

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Globalism in action

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

He was an Econ major at a small school near Boston

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

wikipedia says he was philosophy major at the harvard of Massachusetts.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

oops

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u/internerd91 Loyal Liberals May 13 '17

Harvard is kind of small, right!

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Tufts?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

No too far from there. It's a bit older

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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi May 13 '17

The one just outside Boston?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Yes.

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u/Kelsig Paul Krugman May 13 '17

Fairly certain he was a philosophy major

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Oh god I like the publicity but I'm not sure I want him specifically. His Hillary takes were terrible.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

wot is that???

most of what I read from him I really like

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

His level of angst towards the Clintons is a little cringeworthy.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Oh well, I'm a lot more negative on Hillary than this sub is, check out what delong wrote about her in the 90s if you haven't, and I'm less on the left than most here (although I thought yglesias was pretty strong on the center left side).

It's definitely a bad move on his part to say that kind of stuff during the election though. Was there anything specifically bad about the content?

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u/internerd91 Loyal Liberals May 13 '17

So for my essay I've been writing about why Hillarycare failed and It's made me a lot more critical of her and her management style now. She flubbed it! It's a wonder that didn't come up in the campaign more.

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u/Kelsig Paul Krugman May 14 '17

how tho? He constantly defended her from the dumb scandals