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Cake day: April 12th, 2022

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  • "It is not the minimalist state advocated by libertarians, or even the highly constricted state envisioned by neoliberalism.

    “Rather, the answer is something along the lines of a rejuvenated European social democracy or a new American Progressive Capitalism, a twenty-first century version of social democracy or of the Scandinavian welfare state.”

    80 years of cold war propaganda and we’re just gonna pretend the other thing doesn’t exist. “What is to be done?” 🤔

    It’s been 80yrs of “socialism is when the government does stuff and the more stuff it does the more socialist it is”. The average western brain is now thinking “hey maybe the government doing some stuff is actually good”.












  • The European liberal thinking pattern: “The communists defeated the Nazis but the communists were also bad” -> “well actually the communists defeated the Nazis but they were just as bad” -> “well actually the Nazis were bad but the communists were worse and it would have been better if the Nazis won” -> “The Nazis were good” -> “we should be Nazis now”.