I don’t understand how anyone could’ve learned about citizens united and thought it wouldn’t end this way.
it always was like that even before citizen’s united. This just made it more convenient
Dude who ushered in neoliberalism in the US: “wow, you guys sure have a shitty system”
And how long did neoliberalism last? From the early 1980s to 2008 in its entirety? A quarter century or 25 odd years only? With the peak of “end of history” neoliberalism not even lasting a single decade, from December 1991 to September 2001.
Was all the death and destruction that enabled such a system to exist even worth it? Even from the cynical point of view of capital, this seems like an abject failure.
We are still in neoliberalism, though it is waning, aren’t we? If it ended, I think it was probably only circa the invasion of Ukraine, which could be taken as a marker for Russia asserting itself as a world power again and violating unipolarity.
In any case, of course the answer to your question is that it was never worth it to us, but always worth it to the rich.
We are at the stage (and have been in it since 2008) in which the old school imperial powers are trying to restore the order of neoliberalism, but are increasingly failing to do so. The invasion of Ukraine has just made that even more apparent than it was before. The bank bailouts of 2008 didn’t do much to restore order, sanctions against Russia and China are proving increasingly ineffective, and austerity politics are not steadying the ship as they did in the past. It is impossible to go back now.
its actually a pretty chad move tbh, hard to do much better than being margret thatchers soul from hell admitting that neolibralism is fucked and shit and bad
Every now and then Jimmy Carter tells the truth, but he’s still a pos who helped create neoliberalism and destroyed Afghanistan by arming terrorist groups, ended Nixon’s détente with the Soviets and almost invaded Iran.
I remember him saying how the USA screwed up North Korea, that it was the US’s fault. He did the same in Cuba, Venezuela and Syria. I think that since he’s already 100 years old and no longer has any power or influence within his own party, and most people hated him when he was president, he doesn’t care anymore if the CIA is going to kill him. He can just tell the truth and there’s no problem. He can just tell the truth and nobody will care.
thanks for the insight on the shit you allow to happen in the first place
Yes, what absolute gall he must have to criticize a system which he personally failed to reform given the opportunity he had during… (checks notes) one term in office over 40 years ago! He’ll be the first one sent to feel the embrace of medame guillotine!
He was literally the president. This is like Eisenhower warning people about the military industrial complex. Carter’s public image as a humble peanut farmer turned president is just that, an image. Carter fought for “right to work” laws, was hostile to labour organising in his own peanut farm, and began arming what would become the Mujahideen in July 1979, which would then become the Taliban. He helped start the proxy war with the USSR in Afghanistan by arming political Islamic extremists.
As I said, comrade, it’s his fault and it’s clear for everyone to see that he’s a dirty hypocrite liar for trying to imply otherwise. Very terrible president, just like Eisenhower.
stop being a fuck trying to whitewash the power of the FUCKING US PRESIDENT
During that one term, he managed to pass a law that took away federal employees’ right to strike. Reagan later used this law to fire something like 10,000 air traffic controllers for going on strike. What he managed to do during that one term was deal a massive, if not fatal, blow to organized labor in the US.
Hey, thanks for educating me. I wasn’t alive during the 70s and, frankly, not once in my entire life has anyone even thought to have a serious conversation with me about Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Now that I know, I know. President Carter really ought to have vetoed that anti-labor legislation!
He was literally the first neoliberal President, and again he was the fucking President! There is a dearth of evidence that he gave a shit about fighting plutocracy from his time in office, especially since his policies tended towards austerity! Maybe if he actually stood for something beyond the will of the ruling class, he would have had a chance at being re-elected.
That’s a good one! Does Hexbear have a guillotine emoji? Who am I kidding… there must be at least 3 I can choose from, right?
I am super gringe in person, Melina. You’re probably better off pretending a person like me doesn’t even exist. Even so, I still hope we two can get along.
mate, I know his legacy has been thoroughly whitewashed by the media but seriously, look up what happened in East Timor, Nicaragua, Iran, and Afghanistan and I’m definitely forgetting some coups/counterrevolutions. there’s plenty of blood on his hands. there are exactly zero US presidents who haven’t conducted or allowed genocide. you don’t get to be emperor then clutch pearls at the awful shit people are doing, following in your footsteps.
Jimmy Carter criticizing the evil system he helped create: