#neoliberalism

[intraspecificviolence]

You cannot breathe

Cause they attack U

All the time

[azspot]

Neoliberalism ignores the cries of its victims. It dismisses their suffering and rage as irrational, ignorant and racist. It neuters liberal reforms, rendering them cosmetic and useless. Liberal apologists for neoliberalism, no longer concerned with economic justice, retreat into boutique activism. They mouth empty slogans about diversity and political correctness while pretending the relentless class war, unleashed globally since the 1970s, does not exist. The victims of neoliberal deindustrialization, 30 million of whom lost their jobs in the U.S. in mass layoffs, understand that the precarity of their existence does not concern their neoliberal masters.

Chris Hedges

[jbfly46]

MAGA women have quietly turned MAGA into liberal style anti-crony capitalism, that includes sentiments against the unequal distribution of wealth, just with guns instead of manic behaving unarmed people screaming and crying while holding up signs, because they know that the 2nd amendment is in our constitution for people to use to protect their 1st Amendment rights, amongst their other rights, and how the use of the Second Amendment by Americans at the start of the Revolutionary War and before the writing of it in the U.S. Constitution, allowed for the creation of the U.S. Constitution and the declaration of the fundamental rights of all Americans that is written in the preamble of the U.S. Constitution, known as “The Declaration of Independence”; wherein it states that all people have a right to, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” So firearms are supposed to be in the homes of Americans in order to ensure their right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Synthetically extending feminism via engineered media campaigns until it turned into the domination and control of men by women, the exploitation of women through the female prioritization of formal employment over the sustainment of family and households via 4th wave feminism manufactured by psychologically engineered media, the exhaustion of these women through their exploitation via capitalistic employment via the holding of two directly conflicting beliefs involved in 4th wave feminism, and then containing it to politically left leaning women who tended to hold irrational fears such as hoplophobia (fear of firearms) and overall obsessive compulsive tendencies stemming from their desire to hold an irrational or unreasonable amount of power and control over others, was pretty genius though, and I guess it did technically allow for more men to be able to see what it’s like to be household caretakers and a caretaker of others, while also allowing for more women to be able to see what it was like to be directly exploited through capitalistic employment, but the people who desired men and women who can empathize with these naturally occurring binary gender roles likely could have collectively, assertively, and clearly asked for this and achieved the same or a similar outcome.

Instead, liberal feminists who perceived their society as dominated by men without empathy and compassion, and who then gaslit themselves into mirroring their false perception of men with personalities dominated by dark triad traits, ended up creating a society dominated by both men and women with personalities dominated by dark triad traits, instead of society being dominated by just men with dark triad trait dominated personalities. This was due to enough men in society responding to the masking of self-described liberal leaning feminists by subsequently masking as men with personalities dominated by dark triad traits, which then just caused more women to mask with personalities dominated by dark triad traits, and all in the misdirected effort to be loved and/or sexually accepted or desired by, and sexually compatible with, as many of the opposite gender as possible, originally through the means of the hijacking of the mate selection behavior centers of the brains of these people through the use of synthetically manufactured media.

So, enough liberal leaning females put on enough of an act that they pretended was real enough for it to significantly contribute to enough males then also putting on an act that they pretended was real, in an effort to increase their probability of being selected as a mate as much as possible, to the point of many of these people even voting for neoliberal Democrats when they otherwise wouldn’t have. This caused the society that this occurred within to then be somewhat accurately viewed as a society dominated by people acting as if their true personalities were dominated by dark triad traits, with this view being somewhat accurate since someone utilizing a fake personality more often than they utilize their real personality has the same effects on society as them having the actual personality that they’ve pretending to have.

But, some of the leftist leaning protesting that many of these dark triad personality masking females organized and partook in, because of most lower courts and at least some higher courts in the United States being dominated by misogynists that assumed women were too emotionally driven to work as lawyers and judges due to most of the women they were used to being around experiencing mania due to misogyny and men mistaking aspects of fairness and equality as purely emotional based, did cause some rather useful and innovative confrontational but non-violent protesting and other tactics to emerge and develop, and it also likely would have resulted in a noticeably worse outcome if even more emotionally imbalanced Americans had had firearms more readily accessible to them than before.

Another factor in this was emotional and physical burnout reducing people’s actual capacity for empathy, where the directly correlating connection between the human body’s use of metabolic energy for the mental experiencing and processing of emotions, and the human body’s use of metabolic energy for physical activity acting as an emergency break to prevent complete metabolic collapse.

[saintgoodlove]

Noting the unequal distribution of leisure and the respects in which it has been a mark of cultural distinction and privilege, Baudrillard identifies a possible future reversal, that work, and particular types of work, may well become more and more a mark of distinction and privilege. The example Baudrillard offers is of ‘top executives and managing directors who feel they have to work 15 hours a day’, who consume work and are consumed with and by work, and who appear to prefer work to ‘free time’. It is worth adding that it is not just long working hours which has led to certain types of work acquiring a mark of distinction and privilege. The deployment of neoliberal policies in the financial and manufacturing sectors of the economy has led to very long working hours, but also to the privilege of very substantial financial rewards for certain categories of workers, executives, and managing directors, and capital gain as a material mark of distinction (Hewlett and Luce 2006; Arlidge 2009). Conversely, neoliberal policies have led to the lives of many other categories of workers being marked not by privilege but by precarity and the misfortune of having to work very long hours across a number of jobs for very poor rates of pay (Cuniah 2013). In some instances, as Bauman has observed, precarity is manifested as unemployment and an inability to embrace ‘the consumerist model of life’, leading those affected to suffer not only stigma but also forms of exclusion from consumer society, matters to which Baudrillard in his consideration of the industrial system and poverty devotes insufficient attention.

—Barry Smart, "Foreword," The Consumer Society (by Jean Baudrillard)

[lostfunzones]

[econsociology]

"Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.” Alan Greenspan has died. Let us remember his flaw, illusions, and mumbling >>

[247bulletinnews]

Trade in criminal severity

Center-right and right-wing investment in tougher sentencing and the Left’s reluctance to confront the core of the problem The recent decision of the Supreme Court that annulled the conditional release of Alexandros Yiotopoulos, caused several reactions. Mainly these focused on the de facto abolition of the principle of leniency, the way the remorse requirement was worded, but also the very fact…

[sataniccapitalist]

Why neoliberals are terrified of being proved wrong

Why does neoliberalism survive when so many of its promises have failed?

In this video, I suggest that the answer has nothing to do with economics. It is all about fear.

Politicians, economists, civil servants and financial market participants know that the economy is not working as they promised. Growth is weak. Public services are under pressure. Investment is inadequate. Living standards have stagnated for many people. Yet the same ideas continue to dominate political debate and economic policy.

Why?

That's because admitting that neoliberal economics is wrong would require these people to acknowledge that decades of policies, assumptions, and careers have been built on foundations that do not deliver what was promised. The personal and professional cost of that admission could be enormous for those who have spent their entire working lives defending these ideas.

I compare this problem with the resistance Galileo faced when he challenged accepted wisdom about the universe. The evidence that he was right was always there. What changed was how people understood it. Once the world accepted a new way of looking at the same facts, entirely new possibilities emerged.

I argue that something similar may be happening today. Modern monetary theory offers a different way of understanding government spending, taxation, debt and money creation. The facts do not change. What changes is how we interpret them and the possibilities we can then see.

So is neoliberalism surviving because it works?

Or is it surviving, when MMT so obviously provides a better explanation of what is happening in the world, because too many powerful people are afraid of what might happen if they admitted there is a better alternative?