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Osama got everything he wanted and more after 9/11. What a majorly consequential set of events after that s***

I’d say that’s what the killing shot to america was

the incredible increase in corporate influence of the government

can you think of any indicators/stats that would help prove this?

i found this cool graph which shows unionization levels of LatAm over time. surprise surprise they drop significantly after US supported regime change, and then a sharp rise in recent years

but yea this is a clear indication of worker unions losing political relevance as a result of neoliberal policies

You could weigh congressional votership of corporate tax cut rates against private backing to establish connotations of domestic political control of the state

This would establish the ability to tie American imperialist policy to neoliberalism

I realized I’m speaking mostly in terms of American imperialism when thinking about what fun asked

I need to read up on Latin American history

Nah more like a reality check.

The war on terror was cool because there hasnt been another 9/11

Same thing

Their heads were in the clouds finally achieving their fascist dream of killing the threat of egalitarianism and having a real-life risk map to rape and pillage

pulling them out of this quasi-heroin could’ve only lead to political suicide

Hard to quantify that the same way in the US in most latin American countries, you could show the politicians corporate ties, but idk to what extent lobbying is made public or even happens in the same way it does as the US in most of those countries

its inspiring to see how much of an influence unions and mass mobilizations had on the political sphere before neoliberalism in LatAm

but i think that influence is starting to emerge again

and then s*** like every Argentinian leader getting couped in the 20th century after ww2

I don't really get what you just said but the failure of the war on terror (or the PNAC agenda) wasn't the killing blow to the US. If we're looking for the first domino to fall its losing it's manufacturing edge. Everything since has been a reaction to that, including the development of the petrodollar that props up them up. They tried and failed to guarantee primacy against potential peer competitors through military hegemony over the middle east's oil rich regions. It's outside their capabilities, and everyone from obscure leftist academics to NatSec policymakers pointed it out. Whether or not they attempt it doesn't change the fact that they can't do it. The blowback to PNAC is like a sick anti-vaxxer's negative reaction to ivermectin, it might cause its own ailments but the reason they are sick in the first place is because have COVID.

Pulling out a pdf screenshot and someone replying with "where the tf is this from " feels better than s**

I wonder if you guys are ready to know that we have already been living in Socialism for a long time now, and that you only think otherwise because of a New Left gnostic heresy that personalized capitalism as a psycho-pathological vice instead of a mode of production.

Is this a James Lindsay tweet

I went into one of his spaces and he had the strangest blaccents ive ever heard. Sounded like a wigger but for 70s soul brothers.

Tell me in harry potter terms if i should mourn him or not which hogwart house would he belong to

Media talk about it all the time for audience

And whenever a politician gets caught doing some funny business their party starts a nationwide immigration debate

Also it’s easier to blame terrorism on immigration instead of it being the consequence of foreign policies

My god they were right all along

Theres cities in europe where the majority of the population is turkish or north african and the local factory owners that brought them here for cheap labor then end up running for mayor on right wing anti immigration platforms and win you really can’t make this up

Oh a bunch

Unless you mean successfully bc even Nicaragua became neolib for a minute

The word populism is so dumb