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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 17:20:14 JST Aral Balkan

   If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and pining for the good old days. And there’s the real lesson: When neoliberalism turns into fascism, neoliberals will adapt to life under fascism. Right, class dismissed.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 17:54:55 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Deniz Opal

     @selzero Sadly so.

   • Deniz Opal (selzero@syzito.xyz)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 17:54:56 JST Deniz Opal

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     @aral poetic.

   • yarik97 (yarik97@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:20:51 JST yarik97

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     @aral ми не ліберали - ми ультранаціоналісти!!! Ми з України!!!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:20:51 JST Aral Balkan

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     • yarik97

     @yarik97 I don’t care where you’re from, I have no love for “ultranationalists“. I’m all for Ukraine’s freedom from Russia. But I’m no ally to “ultranationalists”. Blocking you now to remove your boosts of my posts.

   • witchescauldron (witchescauldron@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:23:25 JST witchescauldron

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     @aral a reaction to your post https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-we-made-with-the-dotcons/ good points about twitter and the mess we make.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:23:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • witchescauldron

     @witchescauldron Oh, I just saw that and I didn’t even realise it was a reaction to my post :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:24:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Anti. 🐘

     @antiaall3s *bows* :)

   • Anti. 🐘 (antiaall3s@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:24:37 JST Anti. 🐘

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     @aral Thank you for your TED-talk.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:25:35 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Biggles - Chrimmidge Edition
     • Manu

     @manu @Taco_lad That is such a good idea (using an empty image – or, I guess, the image itself in a reply). I dread having to make threads of alt-text when it’s too long. Will use this technique from now on :)

     💕

   • Biggles - Chrimmidge Edition (taco_lad@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:25:37 JST Biggles - Chrimmidge Edition

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     • Manu

     @aral alt text courtesy of @manu #ALT4me

   • Manu (manu@freiburg.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 19:25:37 JST Manu

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     • Biggles - Chrimmidge Edition

     @Taco_lad @aral
     Here you go.
     Had to put the alt text text in another image for you to copy. Otherwise the text is too long for a toot.
     The image here is actually empty.

   • Patrick Gillam (patrickgillam@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 21:34:09 JST Patrick Gillam

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     @aral

     Would the situation be the same if we were talking about mere liberalism, sans the “neo”?

     I asked this question before reading the trenchant posts above that address various sides of the liberalism-versus-neoliberalism distinction, but the question still holds. Thanks, all.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 21:34:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Patrick Gillam

     @patrickgillam Potayto, potahto :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 22:48:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Peaceful Assembly Robot

     @StompyRobot If only.

   • Peaceful Assembly Robot (stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 22:48:03 JST Peaceful Assembly Robot

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     @aral
     I'm confused.
     Which class is dismissed?
     The bourgeoise?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 23:13:38 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Raven667
     • Jargoggles

     @jargoggles @raven667 And don’t forget Greenspan. And Tatcher in the UK.

   • Jargoggles (jargoggles@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 23:13:41 JST Jargoggles

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     • Raven667

     @raven667 @aral
     Worth noting: Reagan was the vanguard of neoliberalism in America.

   • Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 23:13:42 JST Raven667

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     @aral does that make neoliberalism a coping and survival mechanism under fascism, and in US politics a reaction to Nixon and Reagan's promotion of fascism at the national level.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 08:02:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bommo4444

     @bommo4444 Which is your right. Goodbye.

   • Bommo4444 (bommo4444@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 08:02:37 JST Bommo4444

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     @aral
     I TOTALLY disagree

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 20:08:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • starfrost

     @starfrost Fascism doesn’t require intelligence.

   • starfrost (starfrost@wetdry.world)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 20:08:37 JST starfrost

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     @aral Brave of you to think he's intelligent enough to understand what fascism is to support it