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emulatorloo

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3. Of course we're allowed to use the terms neo-con and neo-liberals.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 12:25 AM

Jul 2016

to describe actual neo-cons and neo-liberals

My problem with the OP is he is making a broadbrush attack on DU'ers.

"I see poster after poster more worried about their 401K then the plight of people suppressed under by Neoliberal Economic policies."

That is a Strawman.

This fad of smearing DU'ers as 'neo-liberals' started the last week of "primary mode." Calling other DU'ers 'neoliberal' as a smear simply because one had an ideological difference with them.

That's bullshit.

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Nice Strawman DU'er you built there. emulatorloo Jul 2016 #1

We seem to not be allowed to use the term neoliberal. Just like we applegrove Jul 2016 #2

Of course we're allowed to use the terms neo-con and neo-liberals. emulatorloo Jul 2016 #3

+1 KMOD Jul 2016 #5

You know, this is getting damn ridiculous. KMOD Jul 2016 #4