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Mia Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6381 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

And also, I think what neoliberalism is, because this is an important aspect of I think people are kind of aware of the broad outlines of the story of the extent to which, you know, Tesla and SpaceX were built by American subsidies. But it's worth going into some of the some of the more structural elements of how this happened and why.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

And also, I think what neoliberalism is, because this is an important aspect of I think people are kind of aware of the broad outlines of the story of the extent to which, you know, Tesla and SpaceX were built by American subsidies. But it's worth going into some of the some of the more structural elements of how this happened and why.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

So one of the problems that we have here, and I say we have here because this is a problem that Elon Musk has, which is that he simply does not understand what neoliberalism is or how it operates.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

So one of the problems that we have here, and I say we have here because this is a problem that Elon Musk has, which is that he simply does not understand what neoliberalism is or how it operates.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

So one of the problems that we have here, and I say we have here because this is a problem that Elon Musk has, which is that he simply does not understand what neoliberalism is or how it operates.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

He says a lot of things he doesn't understand. Yeah. And unfortunately, he has inherited like the greatest of all neoliberal states. So the issue here is that Elon Musk thinks that what his own ideology is supposed to be, what neoliberalism is, what is sort of weird libertarianism, whatever you call his sort of ideology. you know, is supposed to be.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

He says a lot of things he doesn't understand. Yeah. And unfortunately, he has inherited like the greatest of all neoliberal states. So the issue here is that Elon Musk thinks that what his own ideology is supposed to be, what neoliberalism is, what is sort of weird libertarianism, whatever you call his sort of ideology. you know, is supposed to be.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

He says a lot of things he doesn't understand. Yeah. And unfortunately, he has inherited like the greatest of all neoliberal states. So the issue here is that Elon Musk thinks that what his own ideology is supposed to be, what neoliberalism is, what is sort of weird libertarianism, whatever you call his sort of ideology. you know, is supposed to be.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

And, you know, like he is just sort of a fascist, but on the other hand, he's a product of this wing of that movement that was created out of, out of the kneeler bull thing about like, ah, you must like decrease the size of the state. You gotta, you gotta eliminate all regulations.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

And, you know, like he is just sort of a fascist, but on the other hand, he's a product of this wing of that movement that was created out of, out of the kneeler bull thing about like, ah, you must like decrease the size of the state. You gotta, you gotta eliminate all regulations.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

And, you know, like he is just sort of a fascist, but on the other hand, he's a product of this wing of that movement that was created out of, out of the kneeler bull thing about like, ah, you must like decrease the size of the state. You gotta, you gotta eliminate all regulations.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

You have to, you know, keep, keep decreasing the size of the state, keep fire, like, you know, fire all government employees, et cetera, et cetera. And again, this is, I think, largely what a lot of people think neoliberalism is, right? They think it's like, okay, neoliberalism is when the state gets smaller. And this has always been a fucking joke.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

You have to, you know, keep, keep decreasing the size of the state, keep fire, like, you know, fire all government employees, et cetera, et cetera. And again, this is, I think, largely what a lot of people think neoliberalism is, right? They think it's like, okay, neoliberalism is when the state gets smaller. And this has always been a fucking joke.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

You have to, you know, keep, keep decreasing the size of the state, keep fire, like, you know, fire all government employees, et cetera, et cetera. And again, this is, I think, largely what a lot of people think neoliberalism is, right? They think it's like, okay, neoliberalism is when the state gets smaller. And this has always been a fucking joke.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

Like, through this entire neoliberal period, the size of the state bureaucracy keeps increasing. And this has always allowed a kind of, like, controlled capitalist opposition to emerge to, you know, when 2008 happens, right? The entire economy collapses, and then out of the woodwork come all of these, like, Rand Paul sort of, like, quote-unquote libertarians who have a lot of sudden...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

Like, through this entire neoliberal period, the size of the state bureaucracy keeps increasing. And this has always allowed a kind of, like, controlled capitalist opposition to emerge to, you know, when 2008 happens, right? The entire economy collapses, and then out of the woodwork come all of these, like, Rand Paul sort of, like, quote-unquote libertarians who have a lot of sudden...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

Like, through this entire neoliberal period, the size of the state bureaucracy keeps increasing. And this has always allowed a kind of, like, controlled capitalist opposition to emerge to, you know, when 2008 happens, right? The entire economy collapses, and then out of the woodwork come all of these, like, Rand Paul sort of, like, quote-unquote libertarians who have a lot of sudden...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

interesting ties to a bunch of fascist groups and like all of these uh all these sort of fascist paramilitaries but you know they can come out of the woodwork and say oh the reason that the 2008 collapse happened was because uh there was too much government regulation and this is like sort of what bitcoin is right it's like ah the evils of capitalism are happening because like not enough capitalism

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

interesting ties to a bunch of fascist groups and like all of these uh all these sort of fascist paramilitaries but you know they can come out of the woodwork and say oh the reason that the 2008 collapse happened was because uh there was too much government regulation and this is like sort of what bitcoin is right it's like ah the evils of capitalism are happening because like not enough capitalism

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 173

interesting ties to a bunch of fascist groups and like all of these uh all these sort of fascist paramilitaries but you know they can come out of the woodwork and say oh the reason that the 2008 collapse happened was because uh there was too much government regulation and this is like sort of what bitcoin is right it's like ah the evils of capitalism are happening because like not enough capitalism