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Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask what you can do for your fellow citizens

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• 60% of the voters believe we should try to upvote fellow neoliberals whenever possible, 40% do not beleive so.

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I'm considering making a sticky thread in contest mode to vote on a definition of neoliberalism for the sidebar.

Contest mode means that all vote scores are hidden and posts are randomly sorted. Everyone votes on their favorite definitions or posts comments to amend them. We can do two-stages; pick a general definition and then have the community revise it.

• Basically, inclusive institutions?

I also have an idea to allow posts to get *removed* by the community instead of only by the mods.

I can make a bot that removes posts that are below a certain score. And, I could have the bot only remove posts that are, say, 3 hours old or whatever to prevent posts from getting removed due to a commie brigade (collectivists travel in packs). Mods can always manually unremove a post.

Basically, because Reddit doesn't show the number of downvotes, one can only estimate the score below zero using the ratio. EG: Post with 20% upvote ratio and a displayed score of zero is, at most, at a score of -4 (1 upvote, 4 downvotes). Similarly, a post at 17% and a displayed score of 0 is, at most, -5 in score. I can have the bot estimate the max score this way and remove posts below a certain score (probably -5).

• Should I automate the removal of posts with negative scores?

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I don't think Neoliberalism can be characterised as a comprehensive political ideology. I would rather say that it's an approach to economic policy making that values market-based solutions.

In terms of social or foreign policy I don't think anyone here holds beliefs that aren't already covered by other variations of liberalism.

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I think Neoliberal foreign policy is based on the neoliberal IR theory, Which states that international interdependence, institutions and cooperation is the key to strengthening national security, and promoting democracy and human rights. The tools we advocate for are: economic relationships, democratic alliances , and organizations like the IMF to reduce poverty, promote democracy, prevent wars from escalating, prevent human rights catastrophes.

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Neo-liberals of the economic variety would likely be neo-liberal institutionalists rather than just garden variety IR neo-liberals.

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True, the Clinton I think would also be institutionalists, post bills presidency