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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 11 months ago

Trump simply stepped into a vacancy

This legitimacy crisis is what has birthed Trump. And the muddled nature of his vision speaks to the impasse that countries find themselves in. The reigning centrist elites and their party alliances are seen as hopelessly bankrupt, and the Left has no power to enact its demands. This leaves the Rig…

—p.114 Journey to the Dark Side The Glory Days Are Over (107) by Nicole Aschoff
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something great that has been thrown away in a fit of stupidity

For these opinion makers, the death of the post-Communist liberal world is a terrible thing. For them it represents something great that has been thrown away in a fit of stupidity.

The funeral dirge for the liberal world order goes something like this: After World War II, some forward-thinking A…

—p.109 The Glory Days Are Over (107) by Nicole Aschoff
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neoliberalism is past its sell-by date

The decline of neoliberalism is emphatically not the decline of capitalism, so what does it mean to say neoliberalism is past its sell-by date? Neoliberalism is not, after all, just a set of policies that can be discontinued and replaced with something else — neoliberal capitalism has birthed a com…

—p.108 The Glory Days Are Over (107) by Nicole Aschoff
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a vacuous, faux-ironic, sniggering moral imbecilism

In the Guy Fawkes mask-wearing days of the early Occupy movement, pro-hacker progressives did a great deal to glamorize 4chan because of its leaderlessness and its nonhierarchical form. But as Evgeny Morozov warned, this network fetish could easily cause us to overlook the real content of any movem…

—p.101 Paleocons for Porn (101) by Angela Nagle
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