The Epstein affair exposed the untouchable nature of the elite. It made plain that these individuals are monsters who operate beyond accountability. For anyone with even a modicum of intellectual integrity, the entire premise of Western democracy has become impossible to believe.
Jürgen Hubert
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Mark Carney essentially said that the liberal rules based world order was a convenient lie everyone went along with because American hegemony opened up markets and sea lanes for them.
After decades in which the imperialist neoliberal order was not even questioned in the West, less than three weeks into it 2026, Canada, one of the biggest US vassals is saying this. 😆
Mark Carney essentially said that the liberal rules based world order was a convenient lie everyone went along with because American hegemony opened up markets and sea lanes for them.
After decades in which the imperialist neoliberal order was not even questioned in the West, less than three weeks into it 2026, Canada, one of the biggest US vassals is saying this. 😆
Adam Greenfield
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Syrian regime troops tear down a Women’s Protection Units (Kurdish women forces) statue in the NE of #Syria.
This is the end of the autonomous Kurdish led region in Syria, which has existed for a decade. The US withdrew its support from the SDF and Kurds.
Weird how we no longer hear a peep from the liberals, who cheered overthrow of Assad, about human rights in Syria.
Syrian regime troops tear down a Women’s Protection Units (Kurdish women forces) statue in the NE of #Syria.
This is the end of the autonomous Kurdish led region in Syria, which has existed for a decade. The US withdrew its support from the SDF and Kurds.
Weird how we no longer hear a peep from the liberals, who cheered overthrow of Assad, about human rights in Syria.
@yogthos @CommunismAndLove
Und dahin wollen Merz und Dobrindt Leute abschieben. Aber sie haben ja schon im Fall der Ortskräfte aus #Afghanistan gezeigt, dass ihnen Menschenleben herzlich egal sind.
Syrian regime troops tear down a Women’s Protection Units (Kurdish women forces) statue in the NE of #Syria.
This is the end of the autonomous Kurdish led region in Syria, which has existed for a decade. The US withdrew its support from the SDF and Kurds.
Weird how we no longer hear a peep from the liberals, who cheered overthrow of Assad, about human rights in Syria.
pvergain (framapiaf)
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Monsters do exist.
#Progressivism #Liberalism #Equality #Democracy #USPoltics #Education #Healthcare
Monsters do exist.
#Progressivism #Liberalism #Equality #Democracy #USPoltics #Education #Healthcare
Liberalism’s enduring tension between promoting progress and safeguarding freedom is visible in foreign aid, where well-intentioned experts often undermine dignity and self-determination by assuming they know best. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/23/world/the-history-of-enlightened-oppression/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #adamsmith #immanuelkant #johnstuartmill #marquisdecondorcet #liberalism #colonialism #foreignaid #hunger #sdg #development
hamish campbell
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There is a language trap here, #liberalism, and by extension #neoliberalism dominate conversations. The clear and urgent challenge, to step away from entrenched thinking https://hamishcampbell.com/clear-and-urgent-challenge-to-step-away-from-entrenched-thinking/
There is a language trap here, #liberalism, and by extension #neoliberalism dominate conversations. The clear and urgent challenge, to step away from entrenched thinking https://hamishcampbell.com/clear-and-urgent-challenge-to-step-away-from-entrenched-thinking/
Chip Butty
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The liberal fallacy of ”being nice to fascists will shine a light to the corruption of their ideas” is bullshit.
No. No matter how you treat the fascists, they will always play victim.
Fascism is built out of fear, so no matter what you do or say it’ll always be your fault that they have to take your powers away and lock you up..
They came to table aiming to burn the fucking table, not to share it.
The liberal fallacy of ”being nice to fascists will shine a light to the corruption of their ideas” is bullshit.
No. No matter how you treat the fascists, they will always play victim.
Fascism is built out of fear, so no matter what you do or say it’ll always be your fault that they have to take your powers away and lock you up..
They came to table aiming to burn the fucking table, not to share it.
After Hitler’s armies, the most destructive and lethal blight to hit the peoples of the former Eastern Bloc was not some “communist crime”. It was the forced restoration of capitalism which led to a neoliberal Holocaust that claimed nearly 17 million lives.
Liberalism holds the rights of private property as inviolable, thereby placing them beyond public debate. It’s a system that establishes an economic structure where the critical decisions over resources and labor are made by the few who own the means of production. Such an arrangement is irreconcilable with any meaningful definition of democracy.
Private property being framed as a key part of individual freedom provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else.
Thus, the Liberal state is forced to reveal that it represents the interests of the rich in times of crisis.
Why do Western democracies falter in a crisis?
While promising flexibility, their core mechanics, including short election cycles and the influence of wealth, create a rigid system that protects the status quo.
These procedural democracies are tragically ill-equipped for the transformative change needed to solve complex problems, from climate to economic instability.
https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-status-quo-machine
hamish campbell
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Composting the #techshit, planting the future
We are stripped naked by the last 40 years of the #deatcult. Every assumption that we lived in a tolerant, “good” world. The class war was balanced to stop the possibility of a soviet takeover, as liberals see this, two accidents: a temporary ecosystemic surplus and a temporary post-WWII settlement. Both have been steadily dismantled. And when the foundations are gone, the liberal illusions fall with them.
In the USA, Trump, neoliberalism’s golem, is dismantling his creators’ […]