#Neo-Liberalism

[hellyeahheroes]

What Exactly is Neo-liberalism (how you lost your futre) by Hakim

[ehj3]

WERE THIS A PLAY

“Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that” —Jack Kerouac What do a flood plain near a big city and windy moor not near one have in common? Nothing, nothing rather than something. This architectural folly is therefore more a surrealist conundrum than postmodern bricolage. The minimalist “glass house” part is inspired by Edith Farnsworth’s 1951 floodplain-sited…

[mjwrightnz]

The future of New Zealand's democracy

Last week New Zealand had an election, and it went pretty much as expected. The Ardern-Hipkins government was punished for its failure to bring about a much-needed ‘transformation’ of New Zealand. They were elected in 2017 on that promise. At that time the economy had been operating on neo-liberal principles for the best part of two generations, and it hadn’t delivered. Chronic government…

[cannibalguy]

“Cannibal chocolates”: CONSUMING PASSIONS (Giles Foster, 1988)

Consuming Passions is a black-comedy film directed by Giles Foster (Hotel du Lac). The film is based on the stage play Secrets by two of the Monty Python greats, Michael Palin and Terry Jones, which was filmed and shown on the BBC in 1973. This is what I call entrepreneurial cannibalism, with a subgroup of accidental or fortuitous circumstances. A chocolate factory is preparing to launch a new…

[whatisonthemoon]

On March 8, the feminist movement flooded the streets of Mexico as part of a global day of mobilization. Among these thousands of women and dissidents, the main demand was an end to femicide and sexist violence.

In Mexico, femicide is a phenomenon that notoriously spread in the 1990s. Ciudad Juárez, one of the largest working-class cities in the country, thanks to rapid industrialization under the Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), constantly appeared in the international press owing to the high level of women murdered within its city limits.

The relocation of production during the neoliberal period allowed for the rise of Ciudad Juárez as an industrial zone because of its abundant migrant labor and its advantageous location on the border for the transfer of goods. This proved lucrative for imperialism and the bourgeoisie on both sides of the Río Bravo, given how close it is to El Paso, Texas. In this context, femicide and trafficking networks spread.

While the mothers of victims, activists, women, and human rights organizations continue to fight for justice and denounce the violence, the authorities have announced various policies supposedly aimed at curtailing this brutal scourge, which hits working women with special viciousness. Far from solving the problem, their “solutions” have instead confirmed the state’s complicity and apathy.

Full article: https://www.leftvoice.org/femicide-the-face-of-a-patriarchal-capitalist-society/

[rotzaprachim]

a longer analysis needed maybe but I think we’re giving too much moral credit to white supremacists and white nationalists when we say thing like “it’s just a fight if they hate Jews or Muslims more.” They hate us both and in neither interchangeable nor neatly separable ways, just like how antisemitism and Islamophobia are neither interchangeable nor fully separable and deeply racialized ideologies that often get misunderstood as simply “religious.” What they’re actually doing is making strategic decisions about the political capital they can use. Can someone be radicalized in a given moment against Muslims, or against Jews? What is the best way to advance our movement? Can we push a broad platform of hatred towards jihadi terrorists who are going to invade western society, or get people worked up about the Zionist deep state globalists who control our government from within? What is the most effective way to radicalize someone into not only hatred but the idea entire ethnic and religious groups are at the root of all our social problems and that the nation - or the world - would be better without them? Do not assume innocence. And furthermore, do not assume you are safe from their schema of who the world would be better without, even if they aren’t saying your name, right now

[trans-ralsei]

so true twitter user bloomfilters

[mysharona1987]

[decolonize-the-everything]

"we need to settle with the lesser of two evils"

We used to impeach presidents if they so much as cheated on their wives. Misogyny was a very big part of it, nobody even cared that Lewinsky was taken advantage of, they cared about how The President looked immoral. Like that was a thing people did.

Now y'all won't even Not vote for a guy commiting genocide.

Maybe, and I know this is gonna make me sound like an idealistic psychopath to the neo-liberal fascists but hear me out, we should stop voting for evil people? Maybe some of the most globally damning decisions possible shouldn't be made by measuring our options against absolutely worst case scenarios and settling for the 2nd worst option just because it's not The Worst Option. Like there are other options and perhaps it's in our best interest to start exercising those instead of pretending they don't exist and don't matter.

[interactiveglobe]

“liberals are useless bc all they do is vote” is pretty funny coming from keyboard warriors who not only don’t vote but also don’t do anything else 🤔

[ablogofcourage]

[slyandthefamilybook]

I think we need to have a serious re-evaluation of what "leftist" means bc there ain't no fuckin way authcoms are on the same left as me lmao

[punkeropercyjackson]

Old Pjoheads got a superiority complex.You're literally the generation that popuralized 'Percy Jackson is Harry Potter',i don't think new Pjo fans and Pjo fans who don't conform to fanon can be worse than you.We are smarter and prettier though

[belladonnaprice]

I realize it's been like, half a century since a lot of these people took middle school civics, but they do know...that a VP can't really do shit, right?

Like 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Without 2/3 majority in Senate (which a lot of the big policy changes Democrats want to make are achievement locked behind), a majority of House, a Dem president, AND a liberal leaning Supreme court (bc checks and balances, again, literally 6th grade civics) they can't do whatever the shit they want.

They're working within the limits of their power and literal /hundreds/ of peoples differing agendas.