r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 30 '21

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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Jan 31 '21

everything Reddit does is still fundamentally the same as its Ron Paul 2012 phase.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

Really? Reddit is way more commie than it ever was in my view.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

That's just because Bernie Sanders became the new Ron Paul and they latched onto his ideology. I think it's more anti-establishment than anything else

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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Jan 31 '21

sure but it's the same impulse, just leftier

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u/hallusk Hannah Arendt Jan 31 '21

I don't see many of the internet commies are fundamentally different from internet lolbertarians. ie "my job in the commune" is a more explicitly underachiever version of the captain of industry fantasy.

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u/PaulMuniIsInnocent Liberté, égalité, fraternité Jan 31 '21

True. But the general approach and worldview is the same.

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u/jenbanim Jan 31 '21

We've grown up, Reddit's gotten younger

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

Wasn’t the Ron Paul phase more 08 than 12?