From all the concern trolling I see in the other instances it's clear that there's no winning over these people. Everything is "Kremlin propaganda" to them. I do think a lot of chapos did go a little overboard with the PPB, but even thoughtful responses were met with the "hateful rhetoric" and "Kremlin talking points" BS. As always, it is to the Global South we must look to for any hope in the future...

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

The death spiral of neoliberalism leads to the rising tide of fascism. Disillusioned and alienated people fall into fascist ideology more frequently, and neoliberalism creating the conditions that you'll be underpaid and overworked yet still in debt causes people to become disillusioned and/or alienated.

Fascist talking points provide a false hope that if the immigrants/Jews/global South/leftists/Muslims/gays weren't around, you'd be able to afford a house, you'd be able to afford leisure, you'd be able to get a relationship, etc.

Other snake oils people readily eat up, aside from fascism, to try and escape the economic pressure put on the working class include NFTs, multi level marketing, crypto, Iraqi Dinars, paying for Andrew Tate's hustler university, Jordan Peterson and other self help gurus, and so on.

Neoliberalism has no way to counter this because the only way to alleviate this is to stop corporate greed, but one of the core ideals of neoliberalism is "Greed is good". Corporations cannot be blamed. Line must go up.