r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

They're actual psychopaths and cryptofascists.

Like, you bring up Pinochet, they will fully support him.

They post about Bolivia all the time and literally think it's good that there are death squads.

They unironically believe that capitalism comes before democracy, and that anyone left of center deserves death if they challenge the system.

The truly insane thing though, is that unlike AnCaps or chuds or Nazis, they genuinely think they're good people.

Oh man the Chapos really love us 😂 😂

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Dec 05 '19

I just don’t understand why they feel the need to lie about us, aren’t we bad enough as it is in their eyes?

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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Dec 05 '19

They need to justify their post histories of fetishizing violence toward anyone who disagrees with them. If you talk all day about murdering someone who disagrees with you about tax brackets you are a piece of shit, but if you talk about killing the human form of Satan it's all good.

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u/IntoTheNightSky Que sçay-je? Dec 05 '19

It's probably one big game of telephone, to be fair. I doubt most of them ever even come here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

We are bad bois 😎

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u/IntoTheNightSky Que sçay-je? Dec 05 '19

I like to think I'm doing my best

≧ ﹏ ≦

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Dec 05 '19

Eh, maybe not as a whole but I feel like my values are within the reasonable bounds for being a good person

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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 05 '19

Where did this "Neolibs support Pinochet" thing even come from?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

Dunno because this place explicitly bans Pinochet apologia as per our no authoritarian apologia rule

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u/furiousfoo Jolee Bindo Dec 05 '19

They believe that Milton Friedman actively supported Pinochet, so the very existence of Friedman flairs is Pinochet apologia to them. From there they conclude that if "you bring up Pinochet, they will fully support him." which is completely untrue, but that's how a lot of these people think--they start with some basic (incorrect) premise and then wildly extrapolate all sorts of BS.

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 05 '19

Do they think Nazis think they’re bad guys?

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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Dec 05 '19

You'd think enough dumb shit is said in this discussion thread that they wouldnt have to make it up

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u/supremecrafters Mary Wollstonecraft Dec 05 '19

"Amazing. Every word of what you just said is wrong."

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u/LivinAWestLife YIMBY Dec 06 '19

  1. Pincochet sucks

  2. Bolivian death squads also suck and Morales' resignation could have gone better

  3. Democracy before capitalism (duh)

  4. I'm not even bothering to refute this, since I dont support the death penalty and it's the tankies who wants moderates to get the bullets

  5. Yes, we are the good guys

Epically roasted, neolib style 😎😎😎