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The end of an era — Today, we're officially changing our handle to @CNLiberalism. While we've had a lot of fun with the @ne0liberal handle, it's been long past time for us to unify the Center for New Liberalism brand as we ramp up our work for the 2024 election.
— New Liberals 🌐🇺🇦 (@CNLiberalism) October 2, 2023
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I remember shitposting in /r/neoliberal as a junior economist, excited
to have a place 
to peepee around when /r/badeconomics mods in 2014 were getting butthurt over how not serious 
the weekly discussion threads were, and how active they were compared to the rest of the subreddit.
Early /r/neoliberal was a lot of dramatic contrarianism and mostly economists or junior policy staffers making fun of how toxic and exclusionary modern
progressivism was.
And then Trump
won in 2016, and /r/neoliberal just became a slightly less r-slurred 
version of /r/politics.
Disregard that, @Marz love sucking peepee
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Yeah neoliberal had a good year before trump became the republican candidate and broke everyone's brains
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Wasn't the subreddit founded in 2017?
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I think it was before the election because of how much it shit on Bernie voters but idk
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Trump destroyed our best institutions
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Unironically why I decided to go into the private sector
Busting my butt in grad school, keeping my reputation and social media fricking stirling silver. And then federal agencies or federal dollars buoying state programs get randomly torn down, or handed to sycophantic r-slurs who expect the same loyalty from their new underlings.
I kept my eye on the prize and managed to still do well for myself professionally and for my pet projects during the Trump era, but my peers were completely demoralized.
I'm still interested in public policy, but I'll influence it as an elected or appointed official the next time in gov.
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What agency were you in? Why not take the academia pill?
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I don't like academic politics or how low stakes the research is. It doesn't feel low stakes when you're in it obviously, but my publications are like “impacts of naturalization laws over x period on y factor” or “meta-study of long-term labor impacts following mass migration spurred by civil conflict” or sin tax elasticities…
I get into it, I write up a solid paper, and then I have to slow the frick down and wait for so many department clearances, so many r-slurred edit suggestions, only to then wait months for a journal to actually publish it. And I might get a question from another researcher at the end of all this, but that's it. No one's trying to fix the problems I identified and offered solutions for.
When I worked in govt, I was never federal. I'd be hired by governors' offices or state legislatures to be an independent economist and help them with whatever they were trying to do— expand Medicaid, collectivize agency buying power for steeper vendor discounts. I'd work for them after the project I was initially hired on for as a general fixer.
Now I do the same thing for a Fortune 5, and my job title is a smash of buzzwords that boils down to non-academic economist.
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That's nice sweaty. Why don't you have a seat in the time out corner with Pizzashill until you calm down, then you can have your Capri Sun.
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And
jannies
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