#neoliberalism — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117233426189338348

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is following the well troden path of #NeoLiberalism and #Corporatism by ensuring that an improving situation for workers doesn’t suck too much money from profit-making enterprises (and everything else that follows from it). Well and good, but who’s going to be penalised for doing well? Not the corporations I can assure you, but every worker and salaryman/women in Japan. The #Libertarian #Neo-Classical financial systems simply cannot cope with real full employment because a 4-5% unemployment level is baked into the whole shebang.

#BoJ #Economics #CashRateHikes #InterestRatesHikes #MonetaryPolicy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117233426189338348

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is following the well troden path of #NeoLiberalism and #Corporatism by ensuring that an improving situation for workers doesn’t suck too much money from profit-making enterprises (and everything else that follows from it). Well and good, but who’s going to be penalised for doing well? Not the corporations I can assure you, but every worker and salaryman/women in Japan. The #Libertarian #Neo-Classical financial systems simply cannot cope with real full employment because a 4-5% unemployment level is baked into the whole shebang.

#BoJ #Economics #CashRateHikes #InterestRatesHikes #MonetaryPolicy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117233426189338348

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is following the well troden path of #NeoLiberalism and #Corporatism by ensuring that an improving situation for workers doesn’t suck too much money from profit-making enterprises (and everything else that follows from it). Well and good, but who’s going to be penalised for doing well? Not the corporations I can assure you, but every worker and salaryman/women in Japan. The #Libertarian #Neo-Classical financial systems simply cannot cope with real full employment because a 4-5% unemployment level is baked into the whole shebang.

#BoJ #Economics #CashRateHikes #InterestRatesHikes #MonetaryPolicy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117233426189338348

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is following the well troden path of #NeoLiberalism and #Corporatism by ensuring that an improving situation for workers doesn’t suck too much money from profit-making enterprises (and everything else that follows from it). Well and good, but who’s going to be penalised for doing well? Not the corporations I can assure you, but every worker and salaryman/women in Japan. The #Libertarian #Neo-Classical financial systems simply cannot cope with real full employment because a 4-5% unemployment level is baked into the whole shebang.

#BoJ #Economics #CashRateHikes #InterestRatesHikes #MonetaryPolicy

Palestinian academic Nada Elia identifies the shortcomings white saviour libfems currently fail to acknowledge and demand to be swept under the carpet when it comes to their Western idol as they promote femwashing, normalizing propaganda for empire and #Israel

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/palestinian-women-gloria-steinems-feminism-anything #hasbara #IsraelFascism #Palestine #feminism #USFascism #neoliberalism

Palestinian academic Nada Elia identifies the shortcomings white saviour libfems currently fail to acknowledge and demand to be swept under the carpet when it comes to their Western idol as they promote femwashing, normalizing propaganda for empire and #Israel

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/palestinian-women-gloria-steinems-feminism-anything #hasbara #IsraelFascism #Palestine #feminism #USFascism #neoliberalism

Palestinian academic Nada Elia identifies the shortcomings white saviour libfems currently fail to acknowledge and demand to be swept under the carpet when it comes to their Western idol as they promote femwashing, normalizing propaganda for empire and #Israel

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/palestinian-women-gloria-steinems-feminism-anything #hasbara #IsraelFascism #Palestine #feminism #USFascism #neoliberalism

Palestinian academic Nada Elia identifies the shortcomings white saviour libfems currently fail to acknowledge and demand to be swept under the carpet when it comes to their Western idol as they promote femwashing, normalizing propaganda for empire and #Israel

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/palestinian-women-gloria-steinems-feminism-anything #hasbara #IsraelFascism #Palestine #feminism #USFascism #neoliberalism

Palestinian academic Nada Elia identifies the shortcomings white saviour libfems currently fail to acknowledge and demand to be swept under the carpet when it comes to their Western idol as they promote femwashing, normalizing propaganda for empire and #Israel

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/palestinian-women-gloria-steinems-feminism-anything #hasbara #IsraelFascism #Palestine #feminism #USFascism #neoliberalism

#neoliberalism and the supply side economics it promotes (aka trickle down economics) are a direct path to #fascism

Under a #neoliberal government people experience reduced qualities of life as resources are redirected to the rich while simultaneously being bombarded with propaganda about how great thing are using macroeconomic measures as evidence. Since their lived reality doesn't match the messaging of the establishment they turn to radical, extreme, parties like the #AfD who promise change.

What we need are #economic systems that work from the bottom up. Economic systems are that are not focused on continuous growth but instead on continuous improvement in the quality of life for the poorest members of society, because when you help lift up those struggling the most you also lift up everyone else.

I must confess that the auhor *Lost* me when he advocated for major increases in the remuneration of politicians based on the falsifiable premise that higher salaries attracts more competent *managers*. False premises and undisclosed assumptions is the killer blow to any quazy-academic postulate, and the author fell for both of them IMO.

Happy to be criticized for my review.

#Managerialism #Politics #NeoLiberalism #FinancialDeregulation #RiskManagement #Cronyism #Corruption #RevolvingDoors #DemocraticInstitutions #MeritoriousMediocrity

I must confess that the auhor *Lost* me when he advocated for major increases in the remuneration of politicians based on the falsifiable premise that higher salaries attracts more competent *managers*. False premises and assumed assumptions is the killer blow to any quazy-academic postulate, and the author fell for both of them IMO.

Happy to be criticized for my review.

#Managerialism #Politics #NeoLiberalism #FinancialDeregulation #RiskManagement #Cronyism #Corruption #RevolvingDoors #DemocraticInstitutions #MeritoriousMediocrity

I must confess that the auhor *Lost* me when he advocated for major increases in the remuneration of politicians based on the falsifiable premise that higher salaries attracts more competent *managers*. False premises and undisclosed assumptions is the killer blow to any quazy-academic postulate, and the author fell for both of them IMO.

Happy to be criticized for my review.

#Managerialism #Politics #NeoLiberalism #FinancialDeregulation #RiskManagement #Cronyism #Corruption #RevolvingDoors #DemocraticInstitutions #MeritoriousMediocrity

I must confess that the auhor *Lost* me when he advocated for major increases in the remuneration of politicians based on the falsifiable premise that higher salaries attracts more competent *managers*. False premises and undisclosed assumptions is the killer blow to any quazy-academic postulate, and the author fell for both of them IMO.

Happy to be criticized for my review.

#Managerialism #Politics #NeoLiberalism #FinancialDeregulation #RiskManagement #Cronyism #Corruption #RevolvingDoors #DemocraticInstitutions #MeritoriousMediocrity

I must confess that the auhor *Lost* me when he advocated for major increases in the remuneration of politicians based on the falsifiable premise that higher salaries attracts more competent *managers*. False premises and undisclosed assumptions is the killer blow to any quazy-academic postulate, and the author fell for both of them IMO.

Happy to be criticized for my review.

#Managerialism #Politics #NeoLiberalism #FinancialDeregulation #RiskManagement #Cronyism #Corruption #RevolvingDoors #DemocraticInstitutions #MeritoriousMediocrity

#Reagan and #Thatcher will be remembered for lighting the match that set fire to the powder trail leading to the barrel of black powder yet to explode, but they did not manufacture that match out of thin air. It was an organisation that produced the *RoadMap* for them both and self-interests did the rest.

“At his first cabinet meeting as president in 1981, Reagan distributed copies of Mandate for Leadership, whose 3,000 pages came out of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, DC. This became the ideology of neoliberalism, which advocated a smaller state, industry deregulation, tax cuts, strengthened defence, and roll-back of social engineering. A year later, 60 per cent of the Mandate’s proposals had been adopted by the Reagan administration, and The New York Times called it ‘the manifesto of the Reagan revolution’. His initiative engaged Thatcher, and spread globally to dominate public policy in democracies around the world.”

The same **Heritage Foundation** is behind #tRump ‘s two terms as #POTUS. If you didn’t know before, it’s all about #NeoLiberalism a combination of #Libertarianism and #Neo-Classical #EconomicTheory sure to please the #Rich and #Entitled in any society.

Long Read:
https://aeon.co/essays/why-western-democracy-is-ailing-and-how-to-fix-it

#Reagan and #Thatcher will be remembered for lighting the match that set fire to the powder trail leading to the barrel of black powder yet to explode, but they did not manufacture that match out of thin air. It was an organisation that produced the *RoadMap* for them both and self-interests did the rest.

“At his first cabinet meeting as president in 1981, Reagan distributed copies of Mandate for Leadership, whose 3,000 pages came out of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, DC. This became the ideology of neoliberalism, which advocated a smaller state, industry deregulation, tax cuts, strengthened defence, and roll-back of social engineering. A year later, 60 per cent of the Mandate’s proposals had been adopted by the Reagan administration, and The New York Times called it ‘the manifesto of the Reagan revolution’. His initiative engaged Thatcher, and spread globally to dominate public policy in democracies around the world.”

The same **Heritage Foundation** is behind #tRump ‘s two terms as #POTUS. If you didn’t know before, it’s all about #NeoLiberalism a combination of #Libertarianism and #Neo-Classical #EconomicTheory sure to please the #Rich and #Entitled in any society.

Long Read:
https://aeon.co/essays/why-western-democracy-is-ailing-and-how-to-fix-it

#Reagan and #Thatcher will be remembered for lighting the match that set fire to the powder trail leading to the barrel of black powder yet to explode, but they did not manufacture that match out of thin air. It was an organisation that produced the *RoadMap* for them both and self-interests did the rest.

“At his first cabinet meeting as president in 1981, Reagan distributed copies of Mandate for Leadership, whose 3,000 pages came out of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, DC. This became the ideology of neoliberalism, which advocated a smaller state, industry deregulation, tax cuts, strengthened defence, and roll-back of social engineering. A year later, 60 per cent of the Mandate’s proposals had been adopted by the Reagan administration, and The New York Times called it ‘the manifesto of the Reagan revolution’. His initiative engaged Thatcher, and spread globally to dominate public policy in democracies around the world.”

The same **Heritage Foundation** is behind #tRump ‘s two terms as #POTUS. If you didn’t know before, it’s all about #NeoLiberalism a combination of #Libertarianism and #Neo-Classical #EconomicTheory sure to please the #Rich and #Entitled in any society.

Long Read:
https://aeon.co/essays/why-western-democracy-is-ailing-and-how-to-fix-it

#Reagan and #Thatcher will be remembered for lighting the match that set fire to the powder trail leading to the barrel of black powder yet to explode, but they did not manufacture that match out of thin air. It was an organisation that produced the *RoadMap* for them both and self-interests did the rest.

“At his first cabinet meeting as president in 1981, Reagan distributed copies of Mandate for Leadership, whose 3,000 pages came out of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, DC. This became the ideology of neoliberalism, which advocated a smaller state, industry deregulation, tax cuts, strengthened defence, and roll-back of social engineering. A year later, 60 per cent of the Mandate’s proposals had been adopted by the Reagan administration, and The New York Times called it ‘the manifesto of the Reagan revolution’. His initiative engaged Thatcher, and spread globally to dominate public policy in democracies around the world.”

The same **Heritage Foundation** is behind #tRump ‘s two terms as #POTUS. If you didn’t know before, it’s all about #NeoLiberalism a combination of #Libertarianism and #Neo-Classical #EconomicTheory sure to please the #Rich and #Entitled in any society.

Long Read:
https://aeon.co/essays/why-western-democracy-is-ailing-and-how-to-fix-it

#Reagan and #Thatcher will be remembered for lighting the match that set fire to the powder trail leading to the barrel of black powder yet to explode, but they did not manufacture that match out of thin air. It was an organisation that produced the *RoadMap* for them both and self-interests did the rest.

“At his first cabinet meeting as president in 1981, Reagan distributed copies of Mandate for Leadership, whose 3,000 pages came out of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, DC. This became the ideology of neoliberalism, which advocated a smaller state, industry deregulation, tax cuts, strengthened defence, and roll-back of social engineering. A year later, 60 per cent of the Mandate’s proposals had been adopted by the Reagan administration, and The New York Times called it ‘the manifesto of the Reagan revolution’. His initiative engaged Thatcher, and spread globally to dominate public policy in democracies around the world.”

The same **Heritage Foundation** is behind #tRump ‘s two terms as #POTUS. If you didn’t know before, it’s all about #NeoLiberalism a combination of #Libertarianism and #Neo-Classical #EconomicTheory sure to please the #Rich and #Entitled in any society.

Long Read:
https://aeon.co/essays/why-western-democracy-is-ailing-and-how-to-fix-it

@AlexandraB ik denk wel iederen keer bij rechts extremisme dat wint hoeveel heeft het #neoliberalisme deze mensen in de put geduwd dat er zoveel woede leeft onderhuids

#neoliberalism -> #unequality -> #facism
#afd

@MsDropbear42
Watch how #Adaptation is used by the #FossilFuelIndustries and the #ExtractiveIndustries as well as the #RentierClass as a #ClimateChangeSceptic tool using #CorporateMedia and literally pull the wool over our eyes while they strip-mine all wealth from our collective hands…

Wake up time people…

#AusPol #NeoLiberalism

“Profiting from the Queue. Private Equity and Insourcing”

by EveryDoctor Director

@uk_politics
@nhsactivistrn
@nhsengland
@UKLabour
@thegreenparty
@ZackPolanski

“NHS trusts have paid almost £1bn to private healthcare companies to run extra services in their own hospitals”

[..]

“Private equity has already extracted massive profits from councils’ social care budgets. Now it’s stalking the NHS. We need direct investment in our health service, not public money lining shareholder pockets off the back of waiting lists.”

https://everydoctor.org.uk/reports/profiting-from-the-queue-private-equity-and-insourcing/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #NHS #Insourcing #PrivateEquity #Gastroenterology #Dermatology #Radiology #Extraction #Rentier #Capitalism #NeoLiberalism #SaveOurNHS

Dana Bash Tried to Divide Democrats—Hakeem Jeffries Refused the Media Trap

Dana Bash pushed Hakeem Jeffries to condemn progressives, but he rejected the manufactured conflict and focused on affordability, MAGA extremism, and working families.

Dana Bash Tried to Divide Democrats—Hakeem Jeffries Refused the Media Trap

Dana Bash pushed Hakeem Jeffries to condemn progressives, but he rejected the manufactured conflict and focused on affordability, MAGA extremism, and working families.

A call has been launched to participate in large scale strikes at the beginning of september to fight against the further destruction of social security by the current government. On September 4th dock workers in #Rotterdam, #Amsterdam and #Zeeland will lay down the work throughout the day. The following Wednesday, September 9th, the whole country will be shut down by a public transport and railway strike. The strikes are a response to the government plans to impose cuts on unemployment benefits (WW), disability benefits (WIA) and to raise the retirement age.

Strikes going on the offensive

These #strike actions are more conflictive than before in a number of ways. Previously actions only took place in a part of the day: public transport stopped only in the morning rush hours and the ports only during the night shift. Now the dock #workers won’t work all day and the public transport and rail strike lasts a full 24 hours. The entire rail sector and transportation services will stop at the same time. Buses in both cities and country side will not run, trams and subways will stop and all trains will be stationary. But also technicians and other logistical and infrastructural support staff from ProRail and DB-cargo will lay down their work. The entire rail service and infrastructure will be shut down.

Such a coordinated action has not occurred in the #Netherlands in a long time. What has not happened in the past decade is that the trade unions are calling for strike as a form of protest against government policy. Strikes are usually mainly about sector Collective Labour Agreements and not about political decisions. A choice has now been made to intervene in political decisions, something that has been put forward above all by the members of the unions themselves. It shows that people start to realise their class position and power and use it as a form of in it as counter-power.

Austerity politics is war

The austerity politics of the Jetten government is directly linked to the rising #military expenditures. Former Prime Minister Rutte, now #NATO Chief, announced without shame that #Europe should #finance the increased military budgets with money from people's pensions and by cutting into social security. The Netherlands obliged immediately. These cuts are a further attack on the working class and an offensive in a war waged against us from above.

The strikes on September 4th and 9th are a first active move to fight back. Not only are workers in ports and railways indirectly protesting the increase in military expenditures, they also directly – be it or not knowingly, wanting or explicitly - shut down the weakest link in the military logistics of the war machine in the Netherlands. What activist groups have been trying for years to achieve the workers can do in less than 36 hours. The quality of the actions themselves demonstrates the importance of mobilised workers and the ability of workers' organisation to counter-power and subversion.

Spread, support, agitate!

Let’s actively support the strikes of September 4th and 9th! By joining and spreading the strike itself to other sectors and services. By organising agitation and disturbances in the daily life that will do its best to keep going out like nothing's wrong. By actively supporting the strikers politically and morally. By attacking the institutions of the war machine and capital. By organising ourselves not only to defend our WW, WIA and AOW, but above all to reverse the war waged from above. Let us transform the #war of the bosses and politicians into war against bosses and politicians!

Against (austerity)politics – against the war machine!

Class war now!
https://acties.todon.nl/event/4-and-9-september-steun-de-staking-dolacz-do-strajku-grevi-destekle-support-the-strike

#GeneralStrikeNow #generalstrike #WorkersRights #ClassWar #AusterityIsClassWar #NoWarButCalssWar #eupol EU #austerityPolitics #neoliberalism #capitalism #EatTheRich #FuckTheMilitary #FuckWarmongers #warmongers #workingClass

“When we start using #prices as value in #politics, the question of what is #valuable gets removed from #democracy, from #policy and gets moved into #bureaucracy where we can not discuss what is valuable and important.”
#Tegenlicht #Healthcare #neoliberalism
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi54Bpwavns

“Deep Unlearning”: Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
#DemocracyNow #Internet #Culture #CulturalHegemony #Ai #History #Ethics #Policy #Law #Economics #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #Patriarchy #Ethnocentrism #ColonialViolence #AlgorithmicViolence #WhiteSupremacy
@timnitGebru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCB-NQtsKrs

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/opinion/mental-health-exercise-charity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1FA.55xp.Vpm7dp4PVtnC&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Although I agree with much of what the author says about Americans' fixation on mental health and the pathologization of ordinary life, his final recommendation reveals a problem in his thinking.

He urges us to find meaning in our lives by being less self involved and more geared to " outward-oriented action...because we feel the most meaningful when we are doing things that provide social significance — a sense that we matter, that we play an important role in other people’s lives."

I'm sure the author is right, but he shows little awareness of how a society that refuses to recognize a collective responsibillity to provide healthcare in an equitable manner, that treats those who work for a living as disposable "human resources", and that continually boosts the cult of individual success - how such a society may well leave so many with a sense that they don't matter, that they don't and can't play an important role in others' lives, and that anything other than the pursuit of narrow self-interest is a game for suckers.

I note that the Archbridge Institute , the thinktank of which the author is COO, ascribes a major role to markets in its promotion of "human flourishing" and hosts a piece touting the Chicago Boys and their " Chilean Miracle" as doubleplusgood.

#MentalHealth #Psychology #USCulture #ArchbridgeInstitute #Neoliberalism

Aside from drawing a line in the sand on the #Corruption issue (a good thing), the new #Labor premier of Victoria has made the same lazy declarations that are made by #Clueless govts all over Australia:

“Carroll is also pledging to be more pro-business and tougher on crime.”

Business support and Tough on Crime, we’ve only been spared the BS on Immigration… and this is supposed to be a #Labor govt? So the rot has spread from #AlboPM ‘s federal #NeoLiberalism to #Victoria (It’s been ensconced in #NSW for years; alive and blundering along in #QLD).

Goodness me folks, are we going to re-elect these dimwits to govt? Or are we really going to take the fight up to the major parties by voting anyone else but #labor and #LNP ? Nor, if I need to mention it, #PHON — we’re not THAT desperate.

Who’s with me on this?

#AusPol #VicLabor #ToughOnCrime #ProBusiness #Carroll

In trying to undersand why the world is going to shit, we have discovered why the upper echelons of corporate management (and large institutional investors) are all in on #LLM-based #GenAISlop applications (#Enshitification personified). They’ve all succumbed to #AIPsychosis, assuredly a neurological condition with built-in #Denialism, with the only known cure being #Insolvency followed by #StockMarketCrash and global #EconomicCollapse.

In parallel, the question that is really bugging me is: why do #RightWing nut jobs keep banging their heads against a wall? Do they suffer from a similar type of neurological impairment? I originally thought they were all motivated to behave like they do because of particular unresolved character flaws that I conflatingly call ‘victimhood’. A self flagellation of the soul. A longing to be confirmed martyrs and pitied as such while raging at the world as the cause of their affliction — the circulatity is staggering. A condition recently appearing to be of epidemic proportion.

An article in #NewPolitics (Eddy Jokovich) has another explanation from the political perspective: A craving for limelight and a fundamental propensity to be lazy;

“…rather than developing policies for Australia’s actual economic, social and environmental challenges, the Australian right wants to import a prefab Trump–Farage–CPAC culture war that has never borne any electoral fruit in the past. So why do they keep doing it? Because it’s cheaper than developing the serious policy work, it’s far more angry than decent democratic debate, and it’s a lot easier than governing competently.” (NOTE: I have reservations about the claim of electoral ineffectiveness)

Read more:

https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/hansons-white-privilege-tour-sponsored

I prefer to think the old saying has it right: that making the same mistake over and over again without changing/learning anything is a positive maker for utter insanity.

#AusPol #RWNJs #PHON #Nationals #Libs #PoliticalRage #Mirroring #CPAC #WhiteAustralia #Misogyny #Manosphere #NeoLiberalism #Politics #ConArtists #Grifters #TaxTheRich #Antifa #Conservatism

In trying to undersand why the world is going to shit, we have discovered why the upper echelons of corporate management (and large institutional investors) are all in on #LLM-based #GenAISlop applications (#Enshitification personified). They’ve all succumbed to #AIPsychosis, assuredly a neurological condition with built-in #Denialism, with the only known cure being #Insolvency followed by #StockMarketCrash and global #EconomicCollapse.

In parallel, the question that is really bugging me is: why do #RightWing nut jobs keep banging their heads against a wall? Do they suffer from a similar type of neurological impairment? I originally thought they were all motivated to behave like they do because of particular unresolved character flaws that I conflatingly call ‘victimhood’. A self flagellation of the soul. A longing to be confirmed martyrs and pitied as such while raging at the world as the cause of their affliction — the circulatity is staggering. A condition recently appearing to be of epidemic proportion.

An article in #NewPolitics (Eddy Jokovich) has another explanation from the political perspective: A craving for limelight and a fundamental propensity to be lazy;

“…rather than developing policies for Australia’s actual economic, social and environmental challenges, the Australian right wants to import a prefab Trump–Farage–CPAC culture war that has never borne any electoral fruit in the past. So why do they keep doing it? Because it’s cheaper than developing the serious policy work, it’s far more angry than decent democratic debate, and it’s a lot easier than governing competently.” (NOTE: I have reservations about the claim of electoral ineffectiveness)

Read more:

https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/hansons-white-privilege-tour-sponsored

I prefer to think the old saying has it right: that making the same mistake over and over again without changing/learning anything is a positive maker for utter insanity.

#AusPol #RWNJs #PHON #Nationals #Libs #PoliticalRage #Mirroring #CPAC #WhiteAustralia #Misogyny #Manosphere #NeoLiberalism #Politics #ConArtists #Grifters #TaxTheRich #Antifa #Conservatism

In trying to undersand why the world is going to shit, we have discovered why the upper echelons of corporate management (and large institutional investors) are all in on #LLM-based #GenAISlop applications (#Enshitification personified). They’ve all succumbed to #AIPsychosis, assuredly a neurological condition with built-in #Denialism, with the only known cure being #Insolvency followed by #StockMarketCrash and global #EconomicCollapse.

In parallel, the question that is really bugging me is: why do #RightWing nut jobs keep banging their heads against a wall? Do they suffer from a similar type of neurological impairment? I originally thought they were all motivated to behave like they do because of particular unresolved character flaws that I conflatingly call ‘victimhood’. A self flagellation of the soul. A longing to be confirmed martyrs and pitied as such while raging at the world as the cause of their affliction — the circulatity is staggering. A condition recently appearing to be of epidemic proportion.

An article in #NewPolitics (Eddy Jokovich) has another explanation from the political perspective: A craving for limelight and a fundamental propensity to be lazy;

“…rather than developing policies for Australia’s actual economic, social and environmental challenges, the Australian right wants to import a prefab Trump–Farage–CPAC culture war that has never borne any electoral fruit in the past. So why do they keep doing it? Because it’s cheaper than developing the serious policy work, it’s far more angry than decent democratic debate, and it’s a lot easier than governing competently.” (NOTE: I have reservations about the claim of electoral ineffectiveness)

Read more:

https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/hansons-white-privilege-tour-sponsored

I prefer to think the old saying has it right: that making the same mistake over and over again without changing/learning anything is a positive maker for utter insanity.

#AusPol #RWNJs #PHON #Nationals #Libs #PoliticalRage #Mirroring #CPAC #WhiteAustralia #Misogyny #Manosphere #NeoLiberalism #Politics #ConArtists #Grifters #TaxTheRich #Antifa #Conservatism

In trying to undersand why the world is going to shit, we have discovered why the upper echelons of corporate management (and large institutional investors) are all in on #LLM-based #GenAISlop applications (#Enshitification personified). They’ve all succumbed to #AIPsychosis, assuredly a neurological condition with built-in #Denialism, with the only known cure being #Insolvency followed by #StockMarketCrash and global #EconomicCollapse.

In parallel, the question that is really bugging me is: why do #RightWing nut jobs keep banging their heads against a wall? Do they suffer from a similar type of neurological impairment? I originally thought they were all motivated to behave like they do because of particular unresolved character flaws that I conflatingly call ‘victimhood’. A self flagellation of the soul. A longing to be confirmed martyrs and pitied as such while raging at the world as the cause of their affliction — the circulatity is staggering. A condition recently appearing to be of epidemic proportion.

An article in #NewPolitics (Eddy Jokovich) has another explanation from the political perspective: A craving for limelight and a fundamental propensity to be lazy;

“…rather than developing policies for Australia’s actual economic, social and environmental challenges, the Australian right wants to import a prefab Trump–Farage–CPAC culture war that has never borne any electoral fruit in the past. So why do they keep doing it? Because it’s cheaper than developing the serious policy work, it’s far more angry than decent democratic debate, and it’s a lot easier than governing competently.” (NOTE: I have reservations about the claim of electoral ineffectiveness)

Read more:

https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/hansons-white-privilege-tour-sponsored

I prefer to think the old saying has it right: that making the same mistake over and over again without changing/learning anything is a positive maker for utter insanity.

#AusPol #RWNJs #PHON #Nationals #Libs #PoliticalRage #Mirroring #CPAC #WhiteAustralia #Misogyny #Manosphere #NeoLiberalism #Politics #ConArtists #Grifters #TaxTheRich #Antifa #Conservatism

In trying to undersand why the world is going to shit, we have discovered why the upper echelons of corporate management (and large institutional investors) are all in on #LLM-based #GenAISlop applications (#Enshitification personified). They’ve all succumbed to #AIPsychosis, assuredly a neurological condition with built-in #Denialism, with the only known cure being #Insolvency followed by #StockMarketCrash and global #EconomicCollapse.

In parallel, the question that is really bugging me is: why do #RightWing nut jobs keep banging their heads against a wall? Do they suffer from a similar type of neurological impairment? I originally thought they were all motivated to behave like they do because of particular unresolved character flaws that I conflatingly call ‘victimhood’. A self flagellation of the soul. A longing to be confirmed martyrs and pitied as such while raging at the world as the cause of their affliction — the circulatity is staggering. A condition recently appearing to be of epidemic proportion.

An article in #NewPolitics (Eddy Jokovich) has another explanation from the political perspective: A craving for limelight and a fundamental propensity to be lazy;

“…rather than developing policies for Australia’s actual economic, social and environmental challenges, the Australian right wants to import a prefab Trump–Farage–CPAC culture war that has never borne any electoral fruit in the past. So why do they keep doing it? Because it’s cheaper than developing the serious policy work, it’s far more angry than decent democratic debate, and it’s a lot easier than governing competently.” (NOTE: I have reservations about the claim of electoral ineffectiveness)

Read more:

https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/hansons-white-privilege-tour-sponsored

I prefer to think the old saying has it right: that making the same mistake over and over again without changing/learning anything is a positive maker for utter insanity.

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Why People Killed By Aerial Bombing Don't Matter

The West’s monopoly over this most lethal violence has conditioned how we see the victims of bombs – if we see them at all.

by Raghu Karnad
The Wire
November 17, 2023

https://thewire.in/history/israel-gaza-palestine-aerial-bombing

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