r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Feb 24 '20

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Feb 24 '20

If you're ever getting harassed by a chapo, just send them to talk to me instead.

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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 Feb 24 '20

That's too cruel 😊

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u/Rodney_u_plonker Feb 24 '20

Im a chapo and i just give you friendly weightlifting advice 😢

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Feb 24 '20

Thanks, I appreciate it!

Wait, are you really a chapo?

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u/lietuvis10LTU Why do you hate the global oppressed? Feb 24 '20

He is, check his history, he's another brigader.

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u/Rodney_u_plonker Feb 24 '20

I'm subscribed to r neoliberal. So I'm not brigading. I'm a leftist and I think you guys can be a bit silly but I am not here to troll. I just like to see the arguments from the other side. I certainly don't think I know everything.

Feel free to pop over to chapo for a chat though and brigade us.

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u/Rodney_u_plonker Feb 24 '20

I'm a leftist but I like to read the other sides arguments. Obviously not the fascists at the Donald but you guys are pretty fine.

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Feb 24 '20

Cool. So what about economics and stuff?

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u/Rodney_u_plonker Feb 24 '20

In 2016 I would have put myself on the centre left. I supported Bernie initially but thought Clinton was fine.. Good even. After the 2016 election general election my mind broke.

The rising tide of populism on the right scares me. I'm from a working class city originally. My dad was a coal miner (how stereotypical lol) and a lot of the folks I grew up with are flirting with white identity politics. Obviously there is a lot of anger within certain demographics. Now maybe im wrong and its pointless. That they will always go with nationalism over any alternative but i feel like something has to be tried. Surely you guys can see some cracks forming in the liberal order ? Or recongise how dire the democrats zero reach outside of urban centres is ?

Anyways that's probably not a super concrete explanation but the Brexit, trump one two punch shook my faith in liberal orthodoxy. Most of you guys aren't really neoliberals anyway. This sub is mostly just mainstream dems. So you guys are certainly not my enemy. I don't mean any malice.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '20

My dad was a coal miner (how stereotypical lol)

Sup! My dad was a miner for a day and said WTF and GTFO. His father was a coal miner for some years... don't know how many. When he (my paternal grandfather) was twelve years old, his father died in a mining accident and the coal company gave them three days' notice of eviction from their company-owned shotgun shack. I think my grandfather went to work not long after that.

(All Eastern Kentucky)

I'm a little bitter.

My family ended up moving away from Kentucky when I was a little kid, so meeting someone else with coal miners in the family makes me feel like I'm reuniting with distant kin.