Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
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It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.But what happens ...

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    • Express [any,none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      It doesn’t take a genius to see how the winds are blowing and the pivot will probably be an increase in bread rations inside the imperial core while continuing the foreign policy and increase of privatization on the fringes and new markets like space logistics.

          • Homestar440 [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Hey, that’s got a nice ring to it, maybe in the future we’ll call low-income housing Warrens, in honor of her

        • Express [any,none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Right wing governments outside of the US are talking about decreasing inequality and the need for the rich to pay their fair share. If I had to take a guess from what I am seeing the left here will collapse, the current right wing party will become the moderates and we will see the new fringe hyper privatization party start to take over more.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      that's the guy, he's the "mcdonalds having a monopoly over their franchisees' ice cream machines is not free market" guy too, and the "Cuba is evil" guy too.

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      My prediction is he’s either spearheading the narrative shift for NYT to support republicans after the democrats lose in the midterms, or he’s panically throwing lifesavers for the party to course-correct.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Looks like the problem is capitalism.

    But it’s being pitched as people who own houses as greedy and denying profit.

    • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The idea that liberals might not be left is outside of the NYT Overton window

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I have the impulse to send this to my NYT-worshipping, vote-blue-no-matter who-friend who was complaining that it sucked to live in a dem state because their vote is much needed elsewhere.

    I can imagine their response though: "oh but you know, if dems did actually popular things, the republicans would win for the next election, so we need to keep blaming them for all the evils that we help perpetuate while we masturbate to our own virtuousness"

  • Kestrel [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Funny how insurmountably hard it is to change some ancient land use zoning codes to let there be more housing. Nothing says "keep the status quo" more than not letting a city grow organically.

  • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This sucks. All this money NYT has and they're making "I-talk-to-the-camera" YouTube explainers?

    And "Democrats aren't living their values" is such a milquetoast conclusion to the data. All it says is "you're doing the right thing by voting blue, we just need to be a little better." This is still lib shit at the end of the day.

  • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I'm not sure who this is directed at - NIMBYs gonna NIMBY - this "think piece" isn't going to convince libs of anything; their philosophy is way too heavily invested in reaping the benefits of inequality.