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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 19 minutes ago

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/quarter-century-of-aggressive-war-and-official-lying-since-911-attacks-by-timothy-snyder-2026-09

At his first cabinet meeting as president in 1981, Reagan distributed copies of Mandate for Leadership, whose 3,000 pages came out of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, DC. This became the ideology of neoliberalism, which advocated a smaller state, industry deregulation, tax cuts, strengthened defence, and roll-back of social engineering. A year later, 60 per cent of the Mandate’s proposals had been adopted by the Reagan administration,

[–] the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca 1 points 52 minutes ago

Some people call it soda, some call it pop and some call it soda pop... and also "a coke" so it is what it is and nothing gonna change till we smash

[–] the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca 1 points 54 minutes ago

neoliberalism == liberalism == fascism == empire == capitalist