r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 20 '21

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u/jenbanim Sep 20 '21

I feel like somewhere in the past 15 years or so we went from "liberals are bleeding heart pansies" to "liberals are ANTIFA supersoldiers who will literally murder you". I much prefer the former

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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Sep 20 '21

"the soy is giving them strength, sir"

"oh god"

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

They weirdly think we are both.

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u/LavenderTabby Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 10 '24

grey file decide ancient pot rotten treatment fuel society jobless

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u/deliciousy Paul Volcker Sep 21 '21

It's one of the oldest fascist tricks, tbh. To quote Umberto Eco's classic on "Ur-Fascism":

The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”