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@paninid

Neoliberal is like when you use the character Neo from the movie The Matrix a lot. Example usage: "John's fanfiction made heavy use of first person narration from Neo. It was Neoliberal."

@benroyce @paninid

Seriously I've gotten a dozen different definitions of the word "neoliberal." They tend to coalesce around the idea of "Fiscal conservative, social liberal" which is at least consistent, but then suddenly anybody the person doesn't like is a "neoliberal."

Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@Dseitz @paninid

Words with complex ideological meaning are naturally difficult to use and then when they become contentious topics and degenerate into barked insults it becomes worse. I just avoid certain words and speak plainly, breaking it out, because otherwise discussions rapidly descend into back-and-forth word definition "arguments", rather than any true communication

Unfortunately, this is also a disinfo method, by which you can obfuscate by muddying a word and suppressing discussion