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Merz' erste Antwort auf die Frage "Was ist drin für die Jungen" im neuen Koalitionsvertrag? (Bild Talk vom 13.04.)

▶️ "Wir werden den Arbeitsmarkt öffnen für mehr individuelle Vereinbarungen" ◀️

Na herzlichen Dank! Wie wir wissen, profitieren Arbeitnehmer*innen immer am meisten von einer "Flexilibisierung" des Arbeitsmarktes...

The death of #capitalism

The Soviet Union collapsed in less than 5 years (1986–1991) once internal contradictions reached a tipping point.

Post-WWII social #democracy in Europe emerged within a decade, largely due to mass mobilization and crisis.

The #neoliberal turn (1970s–80s) was swift—Thatcher, Reagan, and Milton Friedman reshaped economies in under a generation.

If capitalism’s #crises continue to accelerate (financial collapse, climate disasters, mass resistance), the unravel could accelerate exponentially.

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‘We talk of ‘the failure of the state’, but the #neoliberal state is broken by design.

It’s failures are engineered, grounded in an insistence that government cannot - and should not - solve our problems.

It’s not supposed to work.’

George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison

Suomen julkinen velka 1980 - 2025

Finnish public #debt 1980 to 2025

Kokoomus is the center-right neoliberal party, who always put on #austerity and say they’re doing it to ”get rid of the problem of debt”

I bet this story is the same everywhere else: If you look at what they did when they were in power, they almost single-handedly created the problem to begin with.

The most fluent liars of them all are the smiley-faced center #neoliberal #right. 👿

"You'll own nothing and like it", #tech people have said for decades.

It's only when the #neoliberal parties of the world realized that #LineGoUp would jux the numbers to show "growth" that we see companies become even more emboldened.

#Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down #TheCrew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version "to access a decade-old, discontinued video game" | GamesRadar+
gamesradar.com/games/ubisoft-s

GamesRadar+ · Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version "to access a decade-old, discontinued video game"By Dustin Bailey

#TheAmericanFascist uttered this morning.

“I’m proud to be the President for the workers, not the outsourcers; the President who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street; who protects the middle class, not the political class; and who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe.”

The left wing social democratic forces of the world (including the #Liberals and #NDP in Canada) have been so neutered and brow beaten into incrementalism and neo-Liberal corporate capture, that a right wing, billionaire-wannabe, near-Nazi fascist, and politicians who want to be like him (Pierre Poillievre) have stolen the rallying cries of working men and women (but mostly men).

These were the warnings working people and socialist forces screamed when Free Trade and privatization was born by Reagan and Mulroney, Thatcher and Chirac. The de-unionization of western economies, the decimation of public infrastructure for private “partnerships”…

Now here we are, it all got so bad that the regular person, struggling to put inflated food on the table, or put their children through inflated college, are so fed up that they submit to the regressive, racist, anti-human, bloviations of populist tyrants.

A pox on you, “Liberals” and “Democrats” of the world.

You chose corporations while you placated people with false promises and false hopes.

You enabled the worst of the human condition through complacency and greed.

Your limp, unconvincing defence of Liberalism and Democratic values destroyed both.

What will you do to win back the podium to speak for working people? Perhaps you don’t deserve to.

And then, suddenly, #ElonMusk realizes that #Trump 's tariffs may possibly be an end in themselves, to simply generate #budget #revenue for the #USA #state ,and not a means of pressuring other #countries into bilateral #negotiations for the complete mutual elimination of all #tariffs as well as a drastic reduction in non-tariff barriers, which is the #neoliberal #dream .He starts to understand that, as far as his own #business is concerned, he may have bet on the wrong #horse .

#YanisVaroufakis: "Many refer to this world — the one in which #GenX grew up — as the #neoliberal era, others associate it with #globalisation, some identify it with #financialisation. It’s all the same thing — the world the #NixonShock begat and which the 2008 financial crash shook to its foundations. After the 2009 bailouts, although US hegemony continued unabated, it lost much of its dynamism. Today, the Nixon Shock has run out of steam — at least from the perspective of the Trumpists who want to give #UShegemony a second (or is it a third?) wind. This is the whole point of the #TrumpShock and its masterplan, including tactical moves such as enlisting #crypto to their cause."

unherd.com/2025/04/will-libera

UnHerd · Will Liberation Day transform the world?By Yanis Varoufakis
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1) Dismantle neoliberal ideology. The author proposes that something more humane ought to replace the neoliberal ideals that have taken hold in society. She sees an important role here for politicians, educators, and artists to push back on outdated ideas.

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@davidho.bsky.social In case anyone was in doubt about how sociopathic Wall Street bankers are.

Global warming is happening, they say, so invest now in air conditioning stocks!

"The big banks’ acknowledgment that the world is likely to fail at preventing warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels is spelled out in obscure reports for clients, investors and trade association members. Most were published after the reelection of President Donald Trump, who is seeking to repeal federal policies that support clean energy while turbocharging the production of oil, gas and coal — the main sources of global warming.

"Morgan Stanley’s climate forecast was tucked into a mundane research report on the future of air conditioning stocks, which it provided to clients on March 17. A 3 degree warming scenario, the analysts determined, could more than double the growth rate of the $235 billion cooling market every year, from 3 percent to 7 percent until 2030."

eenews.net/articles/big-banks-

E&E News by POLITICO · Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potentialMorgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree
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@MikeDunnAuthor tubitv.com/series/300009043/vi

We all told you so about trump twice. The democrats decided it was more important to stop Bernie sanders than actually beat trump. The same thing happened with Claudia de la cruz & karina Garcia. Liberalism is about supporting fascism over anything remotely socialist or communist. #aoc #Bernie&aoc #BernieSanders support #genocidejoe #KopmalaHarris just #neoliberal sellout garbage. He could have been our #lenin but he just had to endorse Biden Harris Gross

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It was only last century when things had settled in #Europe, when post colonial, #NeoColonial, #Neoliberal Europe looked up with glee at the peaceful and prosperous future. The promise was simple: #WW2, never again.

Now however we need Germany to #militarize and do so quickly, because the #US is falling apart in terms of being a #democracy, and all the #authoritarians are are getting ready at their marks.

#Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for war
bbc.com/news/articles/cdjyjlke

A German Howitzer
www.bbc.comGermany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for warRussian aggression and US isolationism push a once hesitant Germany to invest heavily in defence.

#Commodification and the #speculation of the #PropertyMarket has lead us down this path.

A #market run by a bunch of opportunists means that they hold majority and can set the standards, like ensuring property development stays low and that rent prices stay high.

This also ensures that even if the quality and standards of living go down, the price won't - because people need roofs.

Welcome to #NeoLiberal heaven.

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