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  • lennybird@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Was neolib hate forged as a right-wing astroturf reaction to the 2000s hate toward neocons?

    I genuinely can’t wrap my head around the people who throw this, and I thought I was pretty progressive-left. Do those who use neo-lib as an insult disparage well-regulated social democracies such as Nordic nations which blend regulated markets with select-nationalized elements?

    • TangledRockets@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Neo-liberal is a political ideology based around free-market capitalism. Reagan and Thatcher are good examples. Pretty right wing economically, theoretically socially agnostic, but experience shows that neo-libs will happily leverage bigotry to fulfil their policy goals.

      Libs in this meme comes from a leftist perspective. Anyone who supports capitalist society or ideology is considered at a minimum to be a liberal.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      See, this is why the meme is bogus. The bottom picture should be a guy pointing and shrieking “Republican astroturf!”

      • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        Or a China/Russian apologist. Or a “tankie.” Or in bad faith. Or a troll. Anything to deny the actual facts.