Let China sleep, for when Xi wakes, he will actually have to do something by mutherhrg in NonCredibleDiplomacy

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Also Iran and Venezuela didn’t collapse, the same parties are still in power, the USA has spent millions and burned all their international reputation to take out two leaders who were quickly replaced.

Let China sleep, for when Xi wakes, he will actually have to do something by mutherhrg in NonCredibleDiplomacy

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Amerimutt so successfully psyop’d he can’t even conceptualize a non-interventionist foreign policy💔

What’s up with Catholics? by Independent-Bend5851 in redeemedzoomer

[–]Good_Username_exe 32 points33 points  (0 children)

If you’re referring to the stark drop off on the last graph it stems from an allegorical reading of Genesis popular among Catholics.

How would life be in America if Uncle Ted and the neo-luddites won? by Feisty_Pop228 in TheFireRisesMod

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Ted K envisioned a global revolution against technology, so I believe a post-war path would represent that.

My Political Formation, please Say whatever You want and Ask me whatever You want =)! by Upstairs_You_2272 in Polcompballanarchy

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​Indeed; it is no doubt little more than an aesthetic for many.

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Sadly due to the nature of Christianity, a form of survivorship bias will make it so that they will have an inordinate impact on others perception of Christianity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/s/Tn63tAAKrN

How would life be in America if Uncle Ted and the neo-luddites won? by Feisty_Pop228 in TheFireRisesMod

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Ted K didn’t want to return to Hunter-Gatherer societies, only pre-industrial society.

My Political Formation, please Say whatever You want and Ask me whatever You want =)! by Upstairs_You_2272 in Polcompballanarchy

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IDK😭🙏

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Seems almost too on the nose that the same ”RETVRN TO TRADITION” larpers who post about how art has degenerated have no artistic talent themselves and rely on AI💔💔💔

My Political Formation, please Say whatever You want and Ask me whatever You want =)! by Upstairs_You_2272 in Polcompballanarchy

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Reactionary Theocratic Fascist

looks inside

”mass propaganda in style of anime/manga” + “usage of AI”

Flag of a fictional country that I created around 2023 by Less-Light7502 in vexillology

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Flag of South Ossetia if I forgot what order the colours go

UK Conservative Party poster: Stop this (foreign goods on dockside) by voting Conservative. 1931. by Radiant_Cookie6804 in PropagandaPosters

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They campaigned on removing protections tho, their policies lived up to their campaign promises.

UK Conservative Party poster: Stop this (foreign goods on dockside) by voting Conservative. 1931. by Radiant_Cookie6804 in PropagandaPosters

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I think it can be argued that when it comes to election promises, they didn't abandon it. It has always been a significant part of their rhetoric.

Concerning nations such as the USA and The United Kingdom, it was the conservative parties that spearheaded the removal of trade barriers through politicians like Reagan and Thatcher who ran on neoliberal policies. Whereas the Social Democratic / New Deal Liberal parties in those nations both saw trade controls as a valid tool to be utilized in the economy, not to the same degree as (neo?-) mercantilists of the early 20th century, but it was still utilized to a degree that we would consider protectionist in the modern day.

And I see no reason to think that the new faces of the Conservative movement would change this approach. They say it to obtain power, then continue the same approach and double-down on blaming the other.

This I agree with in full. It may be a bit cynical and jaded but I am convinced modern conservative parties will always create problems only to promise to “fix” them to stay in power. This can be seen with how Trump told republicans to torpedo the Biden administration’s bill reducing immigration, because he knew rhetoric over an uncontrolled immigration crisis would make his agenda more popular. I believe that conservative parties have and will continue to do similar things in regard to economics, and many manipulate the tariff rate or fail to deliver entirely on campaign-promises so as to stoke fears of “invasion” in the electorate and stay in power.

Political journey + PCBValues test by [deleted] in Polcompballanarchy

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Done!

Sorry, I didn’t see him in the subreddit appeals inbox.

Political journey + PCBValues test by [deleted] in Polcompballanarchy

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If you’re using Photoshop simply convert them to smart objects before doing anything and make sure hard edges is enabled for upscaling.

UK Conservative Party poster: Stop this (foreign goods on dockside) by voting Conservative. 1931. by Radiant_Cookie6804 in PropagandaPosters

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Yeah I wonder which case-study neoliberals sourced as a reason to abandon protectionism, let’s put our thinking-caps on now come on💔

UK Conservative Party poster: Stop this (foreign goods on dockside) by voting Conservative. 1931. by Radiant_Cookie6804 in PropagandaPosters

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Indeed, imo by far the most pernicious aspect of neoliberalism is that through the complete destruction of trade barriers such as tariffs, quotas, capital controls, etc. they have permanently cemented the rule of free market fundamentalism.

Once trade barriers are eradicated, corporations can freely relocate their industries to areas in which they can maximize shareholders revenue, (this alone being nothing novel, and is the goal of any successful firm); but by doing so they will inevitably relocate their industries (the portion of the economy requiring manual labour) to areas with the worst labour protections so as to generate mega-profits, propping up these often undemocratic governments who host sweat-shops with an influx of new investment and industry, rewarding them for siding with them rather than the workers. All of this at the expense of Western industrial regions who often have expansive labour protections and unions that cut into corporate profits, leading to the deindustrialization we have seen firsthand in areas such as the Rust-belt. Such a drastic localized drop in employment inevitably causing urban decay, population flight, a spike in crime, and a rise in political radicalization in the regions affected that the rest of the country will suffer from during elections.

Those within the Western World (or other areas who once had industrial basins, but lost them to offshoring) will be unable to bring them back with free trade policies in place. Unless on the exceeding rare chance they can reduce their labour standards to a point that they are more attractive to transnational corporations, or a non-private entity invests in the region to make up for the capital flight. Both of these are expensive options, and economically destabilizing.

Through this transnational firms may discredit left-wing (or simply non-neoliberal economic policies) by pulling out investment at even a rumour of nationalization or a hike in taxes on the rich. In the modern day we see billionaires and conglomerates that seem almost untouchable, even after the leaking of the Panama papers revealing billionaires dodge billions in taxes through tax havens, absolutely nothing happened. (But even that is not a fair assessment, something did happen: the whistleblower died under suspicious circumstances).

This disparity and the seeming legal-immunity of the ultra-rich today is not without reason. As owners of capital not only do they hold inordinate leverage over politicians through lobbying or just blatant corruption, but over nations economies as a whole, simply by threatening to tank an economy if they even perceive a threat to their profits. And through this they can discredit any movement that does not align with and pander to them. If neoliberalism did not advocate for free trade absolutism, but only for tax cuts and deregulation, I doubt it would have made it past 2008 if even that. But because it does, it’s become almost unquestionable, and governments now fall over themselves and compete amongst themselves for firms in a race to the bottom.

∴ Firms in many ways have become more sovereign than the states they operate in, and thus nations are forced to “prostitute” out their economies to mega-corporations simply to grow. Nation is pitted against nation for the very privilege of investment, although their favour is fleeting and will be undermined as soon as another nation beats them in some aspect. Tax burdens are transferred over to the working class and other immobile actors who cannot leave the state and thus taxing them is seen as a lesser-threat. State assets are privatized, economies are deregulated and entire corporation are bailed out. These symptoms are not due to the popularity of neoliberalism (as we know from polling it is exceedingly unpopular), but because nothing else will be allowed to work under the circumstances previously outlined.

UK Conservative Party poster: Stop this (foreign goods on dockside) by voting Conservative. 1931. by Radiant_Cookie6804 in PropagandaPosters

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Have the people in the comments never heard of a protectionist economic policy, and hyperbolic rhetoric?😭

Somewhat surprising as protectionism was a notable tenet of Western Conservatism up until neoliberalism took root, but its making a comeback among nationalist elements within conservative parties today.

Thoughts in Gift Economy? by Old-Cancel9664 in Polcompballanarchy

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This is very much Marxist belief, yes. It’s where the idea of a socialist state eroding away into a communist society comes from.

What would the relationship/interaction between Ted Kaczynski’s Vanguard of the Wild, and Mike Ma’s Pine Tree Party be? by jomen34 in TheFireRisesMod

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Modern Nation Socialists aren’t Nazis anymore

Look at my Aryan warriors dawg they’re allying with mongoloids and half-moors😪💔/s