Zoe @ekg@librem.one

@realn2s the failure to get the office of budget responsibility to sign of was the whole cause of the Liz Truss crisis.

@realn2s labour is actually quite open about breaking with the disastrous past of austerity, they are however facing a tough financing position. The fundamental problem of financing a country is that you must present your policies in an way that is perceived as credible to foreign finansieras, that's why they have to wait until the budget statement this autumn and get the office of budget responsibility to sign of.

@realn2s yeah Argentina is an interesting exempel. I was specifically talking about the leaders in the field of economics, not politician and policymakers. Policy is reliable well behind subject matter expert, except when subject matter expert makes policy.

@suqdiq @BM_Visser @albertcardona I usually monitor svk.se, slightly different coverage area. Unfortunately llnl.gov hasn't updated their charts since 2017?

@stevesilberman @SpryOldLorax I didn't know Harris had picked a vp already...

@maggiejk @samohTmaS @covid_stats I don't know if they still test the sewage water, but that is a common and effective way to estimate population level infection.

@impactology @scienceforthepeople tragedy of the common can only be observed when their exist a barrier to corporation, like when Nepal band the communal management of the forest and lost large part of it.

@mekkaokereke this is what people miss about DEI/EGS, it's literally an investment in a more palatable organisation.

@ShadowJonathan @realn2s yeah, absolutely. It just that anyone that start their campaign now, and hire competent people, will be told beyond all doubt that neoliberalism is dead.

Imagine a world leader on a neoliberal campaign is as crazy to me as having one run on replacing NASA with astrologist.

@karolherbst It said that progress occurs one death at a time. These is why experts are so important, if you don't live and breath these things it's much easier to continue to belive what you already do. Especially if you are financially well off; it has worked fine for *me* all this time, why change it now?

@realn2s @ShadowJonathan to be fair it's propaganda.

Have you read anything directly from these institution in awhile?, the change over started after 2008 financial crisis, but it's not fully formed yet. But you can clearly read a much more considerate approach these days, a huge change in how they think has occurred. Barack Obama was the last major neoliberal world leader. Unless you count Merkel or Putin. I guess Macron could be seen as neoliberal as well.

@raven667 as I mentioned otherwise. Neoliberal belief lends them self well to justifying empire. Value is inherently plastic and can be shaped by the dominant power, mening people can be made lesser by defining their labour, resources, and capital as less valuable.

@raven667 the motivation behind that is to allow the destruction of the state. Neoliberalism is fundamentally an anti-state ideology, that's why we had massive waves of privatisation in the late 20's century.