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MichelleI have spent a lot of time unpacking neoliberal discourses in micro finance (2nd MA) and food production & procurement (PhD). It is amazing how persistent these discourses are, STILL, in my own head. Being "productive" & valuing participation in the capitalist economy. I really struggle with non productive activities. Minecraft has become a practice of embracing non productivity. One block at a time, resisting capitalist values. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Minecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Minecraft</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FuckCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckCapitalism</a>

Caro S.<a href="https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RichardJMurphy</a> explains here that Labour 's Rachel Reeves could save unnecessary interest payments of £20 billion per year, which makes Labour's choice to cut funding for the elderly and disabled people even more blatantly a choice for necropolitics, IMO. <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XITKNiosNwk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XITKNiosNwk</a>More on the necropolitical aspect: Work or Die: Labour's War on Disabled People, by John the Duncan <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk9WgnIzyfo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk9WgnIzyfo</a><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RachelReeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RachelReeves</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Necropolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Necropolitics</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Elderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elderly</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ageism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ageism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWar</a>

NapelsGeelCampaign group Everyone Hates Elon organised protest with car bound for scrapheap ‘to create debate about wealth inequality’ <a href="https://det.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarchy</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/10/sledgehammer-wielding-musk-critics-smash-up-tesla-in-london-art-project" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/10/sledgehammer-wielding-musk-critics-smash-up-tesla-in-london-art-project</a>

Juggling With EggsCurrently reading ‘The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& how it came to control your life) by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison.It’s a short, punchy read (162 pages, then footnotes) The chapters are short and succinct - my kind of book! It makes sense of so many aspects of modern life we assume are disparate. It’s worth noting the proponents of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> stopped using the term in the 50’s. They want us to assume it’s just the natural order of things…

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The US doesn't have enough qualified tool-and-die makers and other skilled tradespeople to produce the machines that will make the goods that Americans want to buy. New tradespeople can be trained, but acquiring these skilled trades is a process of many years. For the US to reshore its manufacturing, it needs substantial, sustained public investment in capacity-building: loans and grants to train workers and investment in basic research and other non-market goods needed to recover the US manufacturing base.America should do all that, but if it wants to try, it needs a robust, predictable, orderly system of government to build upon. It needs the kind of reliable and orderly processes that make people feel safe about changing trades and going back to school. It needs imports of goods from overseas that can be used to restart the US manufacturing capacity that can replace those imports.But in a market like this one, dominated by monopolies who needn't fear the Trump-gutted FTC, DOJ and CFPB; where cartels have captured their regulators; where Doge-style chaos spreads existential terror about the future, tariffs will only raise prices, without any significant re-shoring or capacity building. The Trump tariffs are a gift to giants like Nike, who have the logistics sophistication to exploit loopholes, demand preferential rates from shippers and brokers, and to pass on costs to their customers. Any domestic company that seeks to compete with Nike will not have these advantages. For Nike – and other dominant companies – the Trump tariffs are just another moat, another obstacle which they can hurdle, but which stops smaller competitors dead in their tracks:"<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-matters-how-you-slice-it/#too-big-to-care" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-matters-how-you-slice-it/#too-big-to-care</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economics</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tariffs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TradeWar</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalEconomy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWarfare</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a>

Aral BalkanThere, fixed it for you.<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a>

Police State UK"It’s worth noting that, while governments have an obsession with efficiency, it’s still limited solely to cost-cutting. There seems to be little interest in, for instance, making access to <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#welfare</a> payments more efficient, or <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a>, or <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/childcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#childcare</a>, as any parent who has battled on their laptop deep into the night trying to conquer the tax-free childcare scheme knows. No, efficiency is only important when attempting to immediately maximise profit."<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a>

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯Ezra Klein's new "abundance" agenda explained:<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EzraKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EzraKlein</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DonnieDarko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonnieDarko</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/abundance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abundance</a>

yianiris<a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> role <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> social engineering<a href="https://kafeneio.social/@heretical_i" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@heretical_i</a> <a href="https://friendica-leipzig.de/profile/actapopuli" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actapopuli@friendica-leipzig.de</a> <a href="https://fediverse.blog/@/actapopuli/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actapopuli@fediverse.blog</a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/communalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communalism</a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchism</a>

Fight the Right<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NeoLiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeoLiberalism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarRight</a>

DB 🌱💦Addiction is not the primary cause of homelessness, capitalism is. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelessness</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a>

Fight the RightThomas was drafted to serve Australia. Now he’s being driven out of the place he calls homeThe Vietnam veteran has vowed to fight a Queensland council’s move to expel residents living in public parks<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/01/queensland-council-moreton-bay-park-camping-ban-homelessness-ntwnfb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/01/queensland-council-moreton-bay-park-camping-ban-homelessness-ntwnfb</a>The Poor are created by <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> / <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NeoLiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeoLiberalism</a>, but the well -off don't want to have their consciences prodded by seeing the results. They just want the homeless to die.

Aral BalkanWas talking with a friend of mine in academia here in Ireland about introducing one of the universities in Dublin to the concept of the Small Web and Small Tech. She asked her faculty if they’d be interested.Their response?“We’re not looking to change things.”I shit you not.(In case you’re wondering why we’re fucked or who exactly is complicit. These are folks that have multi-million euro relationships with Big Tech.)<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/institutionalCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#institutionalCorruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eu</a>

Aral BalkanI wrote this five years ago:“Democracy or capitalism? Pick one.If, like me, you grew up in the 80s, you probably unthinkingly accepted the neoliberal maxim that democracy and capitalism go hand-in-hand. This is one of the greatest lies ever told. Democracy and capitalism are polar opposites.You cannot have a functional democracy and billionaires and trillion-dollar corporate interests and Silicon Valley’s Big Tech misinformation and exploitation machinery. What we’re seeing is the clash of capitalism and democracy and capitalism is winning.Are we past a tipping point? I don’t know. Perhaps. But we can’t think like that.Personally, I’m going to keep working to effect change where I feel I can be effective: in creating alternative technological infrastructure to support individual freedoms and democracy.We’ve already laid the infrastructure of techno-fascism. We’ve already created (and are creating) the panopticons. All the fascists need to do is move in and take the controls. And they will do so democratically, before destroying democracy, just as Hitler did.And if you think the 1930s and 40s were something, remember that the most advanced tools to amplify the destructive ideologies of the time were less powerful than the computers you have in your pockets today. Today we have machine learning and are on the brink of unlocking quantum computing.We must ensure the 2030s are not like the 1930s. Because our advanced centralised systems of data capture, classification, and prediction plus a hundred years of exponential increase in processing power (note: I do not use the word “progress”) mean the 2030s will be exponentially worse.Whoever you are, wherever you are, we have a common enemy: the nationalist international. The problems of our time transcend national borders. The solutions must also. The systems we build must be both local and global at once. The network we must build is one of solidarity.We created the present. We will create the future. Let’s work together to ensure that that future is the one we want to live in ourselves.”– In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology<a href="https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/</a>And that’s why I’m working on building the Small Web.<a href="https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/</a>With ZERO funding from the EU and multiple rejections from NLNet/ngi (because they still don’t get it).<a href="https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/</a>(That’s from 2022. We were also rejected in 2024 for my work on Kitten, Domain, and Place as outlined in my talk, linked below, but I was too tired to write about it again.)<a href="https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/</a>So for fuck’s sake, if you agree with my vision for a technological (and thus societal) future different from the hellscape we currently inhabit, and want to help us explore one possible path towards it, please fund our damn work. (Because, clearly, the EU is adamant about not doing so.)<a href="https://small-tech.org/fund-us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://small-tech.org/fund-us/</a>Other ways to help:- If you know of folks that are ethically compatible who offer no strings funding, please try to secure some for us (my time is 100% spent on coding at the moment).- If you know of conferences that pay their speakers, ask them to have me speak on the Small Web. It can be as technical or non-technical as you like and I won’t do it for free but I’m happy to accept, within reason, what they can afford (in addition to travel and accommodation being covered) and any fees received go to Small Technology Foundation, our not-for-profit.- Help share this far and wide.Once Domain is released and we have the first Small Web host running on small-web.org – hopefully the first of many that will be run by other folks in the future – and we start taking commercial sign-ups for Small Web places, we should eventually have the money problem solved (because apparently that’s a problem you have to solve to gain the privilege of working for the common good in our world because our system is unabashedly shortsighted).So, yeah, anyway, g’morning! How’s your day going so far? :)(You made it this far? You deserve a hug. And don’t worry, I’m just venting. Things will get better. It’s just frustrating swimming upstream all the time.)💕 <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technoFascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#personhood</a>

Alex LGot Monbiot's Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism from the library today.I have issues with Monbiot but this is an excellent book. Short, concise and written for a lay person.Shows how neoliberalism has fucked up the world. enriches a tiny minority, makes us lonely and hopeless, and is responsible for leading us back to fascism.<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marx</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classwar</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

Sally Strange"Now that Trump has dealt a decisive deathblow to the post-Obama political system, it’s worth taking stock of where that moment went. Postmortems on Bidenomics have tended to focus on climate provisions, rising protectionism in trade, and the macroeconomics of stimulus and inflation. The limits of the administration’s “industrial policy,” touted as marking a “post-neoliberal” paradigm shift, have been extensively documented; it was always a national security program first—an ill-conceived reaction to fears of a rising China—and a pro-worker agenda second, if at all. The bigger, less talked-about picture is the long arc of ten years of failure to confront inequality after the Piketty moment in 2014. Across four key policy areas—taxation, labor standards, the welfare state, and antitrust—Democrats could have pursued a comprehensive program for combating plutocracy and empowering workers. But the opportunity was frittered away through a relentless focus on playing by the old rules of policy debate and routing reform through the usual elite channels, insulated from—and often outright hostile to—the voices and views of on-the-ground constituencies. All that came at the cost of forging a durable political coalition."<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-real-post-neoliberal-agenda/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-real-post-neoliberal-agenda/</a>

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦BAILOUT BILL was another hit piece by oligarchic media against the guy that was doing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> better than Reagan and Bush. yet, the Mexico bailout was perfect example of Clintonism; the machiavellian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/triangulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#triangulation</a> that is the cancer of the Democratic Party: rob from Peter to make it look like you’re giving to Paul but it’s all going to the Pharisees. so the big take-away from all of this is… 🧵

Aral BalkanNeoliberals: The report Rachel Reeves cited as evidence a third runway at Heathrow would boost the UK economy was commissioned by the airport itself.Also neoliberals: “We have no idea why we keep losing to fascists.”<a href="https://www.inkl.com/a/PrgxRBiGPzG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inkl.com/a/PrgxRBiGPzG</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/RachelReeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RachelReeves</a>

gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭I'm not sure that enough people really understand how the indisious brain worms of <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> are driving the AI insanity.Corporate governors are terrified of FOMO, of missing the boat if AI actually turns into something profitable, so because of their disordered religious belief in "fiduciary responsibility", they are forced to invest in and hype AI *no matter what*, because *everyone else is doing it, too*, and if they miss out, they will be sued by stockholders.

Alex P Roe<a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ChrisMayLA6</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/@tuban_muzuru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tuban_muzuru</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GeofCox</a> Have discovered that there's already a global <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a>: the UNI Global Union <a href="https://uniglobalunion.org/about/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://uniglobalunion.org/about/</a> - pretty much what I had in mind too. "UNI Global Union brings together workers from over 150 different countries in the service economy to win better jobs and better lives." <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/WorkersRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/UNIGlobalUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNIGlobalUnion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a>

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