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"Ultimately, the book seems fine to me. I’d say the policy specifics are a bit of a retread, but that’s not really a critique: the authors never claim novelty and the book itself is literally a retread of some articles they wrote for The Atlantic and The New York Times. It’s a pop policy book written for a Malcolm Gladwell type of audience, which is a valuable thing for a political movement to have. In short, I think the pique over the book is out of proportion to what the book is.

With that said, the broader Abundist world that the book is attempting to push forward — a world that appears to be teeming with libertarians, right-wing Democrats like Jared Polis and Ritchie Torres, refugees of the effective altruist implosion, and tech sector types — does seem like it could head in some pretty bad directions that Abundance would fit naturally into. But this would not be the fault of Klein and Thompson."

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/the-abundance-agenda/

#USA #Abundance #Liberals #Manufacturing #Innovation #Economy


"It's because of China alone, really, that the entire world now has an abundance of cheap manufactured goods, from gadgets to air conditioners, and increasingly higher-end items like cars. But it hasn't significantly redounded to the benefit of Chinese shareholders. There's been a bit of a rally lately, but mostly it's been pretty dead money.

I think there is a sense in which successful efforts like China’s Made in 2025 initiative can be understood as an Operation Warp Speed policy across several key industries that have managed to harness private initiative but also made it so that private industry keeps plowing those profits back into more research and investment, leaving little left over for the shareholder.

And so what I worry about when I read Thompson and Klein talk about Operation Warp Speed is that they're right, and that this kind of public-private interplay is necessary for actual abundance, but that the US economy, as it operates, can't withstand the sustained, costly investment necessary for it to work; that our existing economic model has too much riding on a perpetual rise in the value of financial assets and that this would be threatened if profits keep having to get reinvested for the public good.

And that, therefore, what reads like a happy, wonky replication of a successful endeavor actually amounts to a dramatic rethinking of our political economy that would require a tremendous amount of will on both sides of the aisle, and a totally new way of establishing broad-based economic stability. It might be good and necessary, but getting there is a political project far beyond getting liberals to see things through a new lens."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-24/i-want-to-believe-in-abundance

#USA #China #Abundance #Manufacturing #Liberals #Economy #Liberals


Awkward is putting it politely🤣

"Being a liberal #Israel supporter these days probably feels like being a defense attorney for an accused murderer who won't shut up about how much he loves murdering." -#CaitlinJohnstone

"It’s An Awkward Time To Be A #Liberals Israel Supporter"

More: https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/03/25/its-an-awkward-time-to-be-a-liberal-israel-supporter/
Via http://mastofeed.org @palestine


Hey uhmm.... #liberals

Have you caught on yet that your precious #Democrats are not coming to rescue you?

That there isn't any meaningful #resistance from them because they were always complicit?

#Antifascism was never on the ballot. All they offered was the same fascism but with wool over your eyes.

Antifascism wasn't on the ballot because it demands #anticapitalism and your precious "Vote Blue no matter who" politicians also love the billionaires' money.

Are you going to wait for them on the way to the camps or do you finally accept that YOU have to do more than memes and strongly worded change.org petitions?

(This applies to all of the Western world... looking at German 'greens' and 'social democrats'.)


#Neoliberals #MicroPsychology vs #Communists #MacroPsychology: From Flatland to Spaceland Part II

"In Part I of this article I contrasted sixteen ways in which communist macro-psychology differs from #liberals micro-psychology as it is practiced in the United States...

In Part II of my article, I will describe how even when communist psychology books are translated from #Russia-n into English, they are unconsciously or consciously distorted or censored..."
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2025/03/13/neoliberal-micro-psychology-vs-communist-macro-psychology-from-flatland-to-spaceland-part-ii/ #psychology


Typical #Liberals: build more dams and burn more forests. Now it's put nuclear reactors near where workers live. #Baseload is the biggest lie. Wind + Solar + Storage means nuclear is a deadly lame duck. #QandA


Nine arrested at New York Tesla dealership as anti-Musk protests break out
Nine people were arrested during a raucous demonstration outside a New York City Tesla dealership on Saturday, protesting owner Elon Musk's role in sweeping cuts to the federal workforce at the behest of President Donald Trump.

The
https://neversleep.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/05/nine-arrested-at-new-york-tesla-dealership-as-anti-musk-protests-break-out/
#arrests #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #liberals #protests #Tesla


"This dispute lays bare the cracks in the U.S. imperialist project. The #Biden administration and centrist #liberals remain committed to the post-#ColdWar vision of US global dominance, where American military and economic power upholds a rules-based international order. However, the emerging #farright faction—embodied by Trump and Vance—sees empire differently."

Neither POV is #antiimperialist

The #Zelensky-#Trump-#Vance Dustup: A Case Study in #Imperialists Decline
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/the-zelensky-trump-vance-controversy-a-case-study-in-imperialist-decline/


You Are the "Inefficiency"
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/you-are-the-inefficiency

"Musk and his online minions often refer to #liberals as NPCs, or nonplayer characters, a #VideoGame term referring to the figures who populate the background of #games...

as they see it, most of humanity is simply not #human. We are ants, or even less: bits of #programming to be moved around at Elon’s whim...

Any suffering he brings down on NPCs is meaningless"

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Bigotry #Coup #Corruption #Government #HumanRights #USA
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What they actually mean is that as they see it, most of humanity is simply not human. We are ants, or even less: bits of programming to be moved around at Elon’s whim. Only he and the people who aspire to be like him are actors, decision-makers, molding the world to conform to their bold interplanetary vision.

Any suffering he brings down on NPCs is meaningless, because to him our lives are without real meaning. Fire thousands of federal workers, cut off vital services — who cares? Those people don’t matter. As one federal worker put it in a subreddit where fired workers by the hundreds are sharing their stories, “The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”


##ProgLibs #ProgressiveLiberals #Liberals "#Democrats" ... You ARE 'part of the problem'... Furthermore, as
#CaitlinJohnstone says: "If you've been ignoring or defending #Biden's #genocide-al criminality these last 15 months, then I don't really care what you have to say about #Trump or #Musk or any of their cohorts."
If you've been ignoring or defending Biden's genocidal criminality these last 15 months, then I don't really care what you have to say about Trump or Musk or any of their cohorts. Your criticisms might be 100% accurate, but they're not coming from a place of truth.

If you moved seamlessly from aggressively attacking Biden's abuses to aggressively attacking Trump's, then you have my attention, because I know your criticisms are coming from actual principles and not blind opposition to an opposing political faction.

You are standing against tyranny instead of standing with one of America's two tyrannical parties.


"An entire #liberals cottage industry of #factchecking #Trump... on news and #socialmedia... removing Trump from major social media platforms, did not diminish his support nor expunge dangerous #disinformation from the echo chambers primed to receive and propagate it.

The end of the #factcheck era ...is worth examining because of how it heralds another liberal failure... just another capitulation in the battle against #fascism.

I used "itsaclickwall@gmail.com" 😎

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/07/facebook-fact-check-mark-zuckerberg-trump/


The last of the honest #liberals.

"When asked how #fascism starts, Betrand Russell replied: I'm a fucking Liberal, and it's usually us who open the door and call fascism a "lesser evil" out of the fear we feel for revolution." #Quotes #USPolitics


Oh look! The female #CNN reporter Chadors/Hijabis up for these apostate pieces of headchopping shit!

#Assad Is Out, #WokeAlQaeda Is In! #caitlinjohnstone

"Only a matter of time before we start seeing former #ISIS and #alQaeda members chatting it up on #liberals western #talkshows (😎) with their preferred gender pronouns listed next to their names."

Reading by Tim Foley, or read it here https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/12/08/assad-is-out-woke-al-qaeda-is-in/ #Syria #SyrianCivilWar @syria


#Liberals are hypocrites, they will condemn #Russia hard when they destroy entire city blocks but will turn around and consider #Israel defending itself when they are currently reducing #Gaza to rubble.


The ‘business as usual’ approach in the occupied #WestBank, amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, ‘doesn’t merely highlight the decline in the role of #municipalities; it lays bare the complete dysfunction of the #Palestinian political system.’

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestinian-authority-west-bank-doonsday-carries-on-usual

#Palestine #Israel #Zionism #Zionist #MiddleEast #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Palestinians #Lebanon #PalestinianLivesMatter #Politics #JoeBiden #KamalaHarris #Democrats #Liberals #Liberal


Liberals will always be fake and hypocritical individuals...

"[T]o find the real driving force of this shift, you have to look at the party’s efforts to stop Bernie Sanders.
(...)
It is hard to overstate how rampant, dishonest, and often ridiculous this smear campaign was. Sanders’s movement was perennially (and wrongly) derided as a bunch of “Bernie Bros,” meaning a collection of young, often white, and usually angry and misogynistic men who it was dangerous to appeal to. (Now, of course, this same crowd laments the Democrats’ loss of young men and ponders how to win them back.)

When leftists disputed this smear, that was held up as further proof of rampant sexism among Sanders’s supporters. Pro-Democratic voices eagerly took up Trump’s invented label of “alt-Left,” claiming that this movement shared the worldview of the global far right, was making “common cause” with it in a “deeply xenophobic axis” targeting immigrants, and that its “disgust with ‘identity politics’” had “created a kinship” with the alt-right — meaning, with white supremacists.

When Sanders said in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss that Democrats needed to move beyond “identity politics” and that it was not enough to pitch a candidate’s diversity to voters — a view that is now, apparently, uncontroversial within the party’s power brokers — a host of pro-Democratic pundits pounced on him. It was just the first of countless similar, tiresome controversies and race-and-gender-based attacks ginned up against him as he prepared to run again."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/democratic-elites-identity-politics-sanders

#USA #DemocraticParty #Liberals #Liberalism #IdentityPolitics #Woke #Wokism


You know, I do love how #Liberals & #Democrats justified a lot of things in the #Election like; the #Genocide in #Palestine / #Gaza, shutting down a #Workers right to strike, and even welcoming #Republicans in their party where literal #Fascists like #GeorgeWBush & #DickCheney were worse than #DonaldTrump & the #RepublicanParty endorse them.

This poll from #Pennsylvania show cases why the #DemocraticParty lost so many of their base to #Vote for them and why they deserved to lose.

#VoteBlue