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https://twitter.com/giorgiomomurder/status/1516112101512687617 https://twitter.com/giorgiomomurder/status/1516113306913628169
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# ? Apr 18, 2022 20:13 |
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# ? May 7, 2024 05:12 |
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Arguably all Erdogan and Duterte have done is create ideal economic conditions for a neoliberal institution to "rescue" their economy.
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# ? Apr 18, 2022 21:44 |
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they're just too cowardly to invoke the name of xi
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 00:34 |
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i wrote a long post about this a while back but the whole point of neoliberalism is that it insists the state can't do anything except graft, so it's no surprise that even neoliberal autocrats don't bother pursuing any projects except graft
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:14 |
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DIY Grafts
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:14 |
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End of History 2
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:19 |
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Why would anyone think Putin would want to create industrial redevelopment or whatever? He came to power as a direct result of the West looting Russia, he's a gangster living out his dream of being powerful and in charge.vyelkin posted:i wrote a long post about this a while back but the whole point of neoliberalism is that it insists the state can't do anything except graft, so it's no surprise that even neoliberal autocrats don't bother pursuing any projects except graft Its so confusing when neoliberals get all smug and think pointing out the government is corrupt is the ultimate argument against state services. The government is corrupt because neoliberal institutions have completely co-opted it, that is not a good argument for putting even more power in the hands of neoliberal institutions! Government is, theoretically, responsive to the people, while corporations and financial institutions are manifestly not. Why would anyone ever prefer zero mechanism for accountability over a corrupt but perhaps salvageable mechanism?
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:25 |
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Nix Panicus posted:Why would anyone think Putin would want to create industrial redevelopment or whatever? He came to power as a direct result of the West looting Russia, he's a gangster living out his dream of being powerful and in charge. it's because they think that there's always a theoretical private version that would provide the same result without being corrupt, because clearly if they were corrupt then a competitor could come along and not be corrupt and therefore outcompete the corrupt actor. It's transparently wrong, but to dismantle why it's wrong you're implicitly butting up against the foundational belief that the private sector is inherently more efficient than the public sector. This was a big part of the post I was thinking of from a while ago, so I went and found it: vyelkin posted:yeah, the whole point of neoliberalism wasn't necessarily to use the state to enforce technocratic capitalism, it was about removing the ability of the state to do anything else. end of history meant end of state power, and third way leaders more than anybody else made sure that "the state can't do anything" became the defining ideology. people might acknowledge that the state had the theoretical authority to do things, but they made sure that the ideological apparatus surrounding the state constantly reaffirmed that it shouldn't, both because it was theoretically wrong and because it was inefficient. everything is more effective when someone other than the state does it, so why would you ever want the state to do anything even if you acknowledge that it can?
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:36 |
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err posted:End of History 2
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# ? Apr 19, 2022 01:51 |
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# ? May 7, 2024 05:12 |
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vyelkin posted:it's because they think that there's always a theoretical private version that would provide the same result without being corrupt, because clearly if they were corrupt then a competitor could come along and not be corrupt and therefore outcompete the corrupt actor. It's transparently wrong, but to dismantle why it's wrong you're implicitly butting up against the foundational belief that the private sector is inherently more efficient than the public sector. This was a big part of the post I was thinking of from a while ago, so I went and found it: Good posts, thanks.
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