(Part 3) Top products from r/neoliberal

my favourite in the category of "extreme boomer takes in the form of children entertainment" is this

>"Everyone is buzzing about the president's birthday! Especially George Washington's servants, who scurry around the kitchen preparing to make this the best celebration ever. Oh, how George Washington loves his cake! And, oh, how he depends on Hercules, his head chef, to make it for him. Hercules, a slave, takes great pride in baking the president's cake. But this year there is one problem--they are out of sugar."

Only read selected chapters, but [Social Stratification] (https://www.amazon.com/Social-Stratification-Gender-Sociological-Perspective/dp/0813346711) seems pretty excellent.

Granted, they are correct about the economic growth of the country. Intentionally or not Joseph Stalin took crib notes from the Imperial Russian Finance Minister who famously stated that given the choice between industrialization and allowing people to starve in the streets, people were just going to have to go hungry.


In that sense- and ironically doing what the Nazis could only imagine themselves doing under General Plan Ost- it's quite easy to grow your economy when you have no respect for human life or human rights and the rumbling of mouth breathing Germans on your border all collectively convinced there's a conspiracy of Jewish communists running your country to destroy western civilization then forced those people who generally loathed you into your 'loving' embrace. Seriously, to get a picture of what the early years of the Soviet Union was like, go read Ivan's War. Germany invading in some respects saved Stalin's experiment.


>Zero Unemployment


Because employment was a duty, even if your job was to sit in a stairway and read the newspaper.


>Zero homelessness


Man, who can say no to this? Construction companies are a brilliant way to build a fledgling economy but lets completely forgo that so everyone can live in concrete coffins.


>End Famine


You mean that thing you intentionally inflicted on the Ukrainians to cripple them? Or that thing where you forced everyone in bread lines? Jokes from the era were about how even heroes of the Soviet Union like cosmonauts had to wait in bread lines. Let that sink in: the Soviets could put man in space and achieved many important firsts in the wider space race but when tasked with making sure a country was fed they could not run an efficient bakery.


>Higher Calorie Consumption than the US


Someone's going to have to point me to this statistic but I don't see how they're not lying here. This certainly would not have started until the late 50's or early 60's because the Soviet Union was trashed in the wake of WW2 and the parts that were treated the worst was the bread basket.

In part. I've also seen quite a bit of research (summarised in this book) indicating that early motherhood can often be motivated by a desire for meaning/actualisation for people who are systemically locked out of achieving meaning through high-prestige careers or education, which is true for many African-Americans and African-American women in particular.

highly recommended book.



edit ok the free market decided

> waiting for good suggestions from our IR folks

The only book needed to make a country leader of the free world*

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*Note that the country is France, not the country of the reader

Had a 6-hour ferry ride today, and used it to read most of Thanks, Obama: My Hopey-Changey White House Years by speechwriter David Litt. I can honestly say that, while not exactly rigorous, it's one of the most engaging memoirs I've read in the past several years, and absolutely the most approachable account of contemporary politics.

On Thanksgiving, we always credit Native Americans for introducing us to corn and pumpkins but never for the KITCHEN-AID KSM150GBQCU ARTISAN TILT-HEAD STAND MIXER WITH SAUSAGE GRINDER ATTACHMENT, CONTOUR SILVER https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WX5H94D/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07WX5H94D&linkCode=as2&tag=unsettlingsto-20&linkId=1f575a86c3e904da0f470b5225997cd6

https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1594205078 probably best nonfiction book ever.

I read this variant, which (translation aside) is usefully augmented by copious maps and side notes. I am not good enough to be able to judge various translations.

(Where do I recommend Thucydides? I don't doubt that I do, I just don't remember doing so.)

This is a version that includes copious explanatory notes and maps to help you along. Each paragraph is summarized in the margins, even.

Any translation of Thucydides is going to have readability issues; he's tough to get through even in the original language and the process of translation only exacerbates that issue.

This book

Gives a good rundown of the birth of neoliberalism in Chile.

Like this one ?

Do you think God stays in heaven because he too, lives in fear of what he's created?

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divisive

Sapolsky discusses it extensively in the relevant chapters of this book. All the studies referred to are cited.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631492853/

sanitized

https://www.amazon.com/United-Nations-Flag-foot-Polyester/dp/B000GBGR64

https://www.amazon.com/United-Nations-UN-Flag-Polyester/dp/B000GBGR64/ref=sr_1_4?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1503433235&sr=1-4&keywords=united+nations+flag

Amazon link

You just reminded me to do my periodic activity of reading the titles of new tinglers. And oh boy is this one relevant here

If we're dropping books with mundane topics count me in

See Jane Meyers "Dark Money"

Here's a review.

here

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also if you got the time

Already been done

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0399594493

huh I was about to guess you were talking about this one

that book description

Actually it means you have taste


Https://www.amazon.com/Privilege-Making-Adolescent-School-William/dp/0691156239

Have you read the novels? I swear the author spends about 100 pages in each just describing food. There's even a cookbook.

> public choice theory

is a Koch brothers proposal!

No but seriously public choice is perfect for looking into MIC. My dad is government and works around the Norfolk naval base area and all the anecdotes I've heard detailing the extent of project mismanagement, union graft, and overall government waste were unfathomable - and that's just a relatively small sliver of the whole.

>Would you support an invasion of Syria? Iran? North Korea? Egypt? Saudi Arabia? China? Or just one where Americans can happily watch death and destruction from their living rooms while cheering for "Muh cuntry nd muh freedom"?

Syria, yes, Iran, not if iran deal holds up and liberalization continues, north korea idk, egypt no, saudi arabia no, china no


>Neoliberals in support of the murder of civilians by the state, classy.


https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999

I'm starting to get the sense that you didn't read my first comment. I literally said a very specific two year period before the end of stalingrad.

I then went on to talk about the people who joined the red army in the early war after the shock of operation barbarossa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa


Read the following Books for more information:

Ivan's war

Stalingrad

Leningrad

The Fall of Berlin

I don't know why you keep posting things from after the date range I specified. So many of the men who faugh in the early battles were dead by the time even operation Uranus took place, let alone during invasion of Germany.