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Jeff Bezos fund ends support for climate group amid fears billionaires ‘bowing down’ to Trump
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The rich aren't on our side...
But good luck prying neoliberals away from their teat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
I wasn't sure of what it really was. Basically, tech bros.
They change their label a lot, and I always get down voted for mentioning it.
But trump never would have been a candidate if it wasn't for Clinton de-regulating everything in the 90s in exchange for donations from literally trump and people just like him.
But yeah, they took credit for the dotcom boom and started the trend of billion dollar companies paying zero in tax, because it would "trickle down" by employees taxed on salary...
So yeah, they're the OG techbros basically.
They also took credit for crime reduction, saying it was due to their incredibly harsh sentencing guidlines, when it was the same reduction every other country got from banning leaded gas.
Neoliberal policy never worked, it just popped up when things were organically getting better. But the people from Bill and Hillary in the 90s are literally Biden/Kamala's people. Hell, Biden literally was one of them himself, he took credit for the crime bill even. They've had a death grip on the party for decades, and almost nothing they're doing actually helps people.
I'm hopeful Ken Martin breaks and takes the DNC back in a pro worker direction, but we'll have to see.
If Kamala had won tho, the neoliberals would still be running the party, because she would have gotten to name the chair.
We let this beast called greed grow unchecked for so long in the shadows and now it has come out in the open, stepping on the throat of democracy, equality, & freedom.
I think the reason you're downvoted isn't because you're necessarily wrong about Biden, Harris, etc., it's just that you're focusing on some weird rando stuff. Trump's right hand man is doing a Nazi salute and they're sending immigrants to Guantanamo Bay. Even though clinton may have started it (don't know enough to dispute), republicans could have shut that shit down for decades now. I don't really understand why you need to mention that old shit. Do you think the left thinks everyone on the left is perfect and out for the common people's good? I can say that most would say no.
When Clinton deregulated news media and campaign finance, it didn't just let the rich influence the Dems, it handed the Republican party lock and key to them.
Like, everyone is bitching about Trump's cuts to federal workers right now, completely ignorant that it took 30 years to recover from Clinton's 90s cuts...
trump is doing the neoliberal playbook, he's just too dumb to make people think it's a solid plan.
Have you not seen the posts from neoliberals taunting progressives over how many Palestinians are being killed?
Have you not seen what happens when people talked about Biden's flaws?
Now, I wouldn't expect anyone to watch mainstream cable news, but if you did you'd see it's filled with people saying it 24/7.
It's all over the place.
And that's just politically active people...
Most voters just flat out don't know what happened 30 years ago, it's worth people knowing why we're here so we can leave and never come back.
I see I'm talking to a well versed person who thinks a Neoliberal is the same is a liberal and happens to avoid the Nazi salute and Guantanamo Bay part. Interesting. I wish the laptop version could tag people.
What?
Ironically enough, I have legitimately been to Gitmo, no idea how it's relevant tho...
@givesomefucks is focusing on root causes, which only seems like weird rando stuff to those with a surface-level understanding of the problem.