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Sep 26, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Paolo Gerbaudo
During the turbulent 2010s, the steadfast advocates of neoliberal reforms, globalization, and open markets wasted no opportunities to lampoon the rising nationalist danger. Not just Donald Trump, but also figures like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Matteo Salvini, and Britain’s Nigel Farage were presented as an existential threat to the liberal order and a blemish on Western civilization’s time-honored values.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Paolo Gerbaudo
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s shock victory in 2016, one common explanation for why the Democrats had not seen it coming was that they had succumbed to the social media echo chamber. The fact that many digital platforms, such as Twitter (now X), tended to be dominated by liberals had lured Democrats into a false sense of security.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
boredpanda.com | Miguel Ordóñez |Paolo Gerbaudo
Internet memes may have been around for a while, but they never seem to go out of style. A noteworthy one can still draw laughs in this day and age of jump-cut videos and shorter attention spans. Today, we’re looking at the epic.like.bro Instagram page. The name may suggest masculinity, but it features memes for everyone to enjoy. Scroll long enough, and you may find at least one that best relates to you. But we’ve picked out some of the posts that caught our attention.
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May 22, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Timothy Shenk |Paolo Gerbaudo |Mike Konczal
Man in the Mirror The virtues of left unity are still obvious, but the grounds for compromise are harder to see. ▪ Spring 2024 Write about politics for long enough and you’ll put some arguments into the world you come to regret. This issue’s special section on the global right has me reconsidering a long piece on American conservatism that ran here in Dissent in 2019.
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May 9, 2024 | 
wired.it | Paolo Gerbaudo
Ragazzini perditempo, drogati di video brevi, vittime di “attention span” sempre più corte, e attanagliati dall’ansia. Quando ci si immagina chi siano gli utenti tipo di TikTok, sono queste alcune delle immagini che vengono in mente, specie tra le persone più anziane e chi non utilizza la piattaforma. Del resto, è proprio questo l’idea che ricorre più frequentemente nella rappresentazione mediatica della piattaforma che è stata caratterizzata dai i video brevi.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
phenomenalworld.org | Paolo Gerbaudo
In the late 1970s, Western markets were flooded with Japanese cars from then-unfamiliar brands like Toyota, Mazda, Datsun, and Honda. The combination of a high quality product, efficient fuel consumption, and a low price tag made these brands very popular in the US and Europe in the aftermath of the 1970s oil shock, resulting in a decline in market share for domestic manufacturers and complaints of unfair competition from entrepreneurs and trade unions.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Timothy Shenk |Andrew Elrod |Paolo Gerbaudo |Michael Kazin
Wouldn’t It Be Nice Whether or not we’re moving toward a post-neoliberal world, the question that matters is if we’ll make a better one. ▪ Fall 2023 Listen closely and you can hear the sound of the great consensus machine whirring to life as it cranks out another verdict on the way the world works. Neoliberalism, it has been decided, is finished. Yes, left-wing magazines like this one have been publishing obituaries for the neoliberal order since the Clinton administration.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
taipeitimes.com | Paolo Gerbaudo
The former Italian prime minister, who combined celebrity antics with right-wing populism, laid the groundwork for Trumpism By Paolo Gerbaudo / The Guardian When he hurriedly left the Palazzo Chigi, the official residence of Italy’s prime minister, for the last time on Nov. 16, 2011, Silvio Berlusconi looked like a humiliated man.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
msn.com | Paolo Gerbaudo
El 16 de noviembre de 2011, cuando dejó apresuradamente y por última vez su residencia oficial como primer ministro, el Palazzo Chigi, Silvio Berlusconi parecía un hombre humillado. Las finanzas de Italia estaban contra las cuerdas –con una subasta de bonos del Tesoro– los fiscales le pisaban los talones debido al infame escándalo de las fiestas "bunga bunga", con una menor de edad implicada y sus aliados europeos Nicolas Sarkozy y Angela Merkel ya habían hecho público su descontento con él.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
msn.com | Paolo Gerbaudo
When he hurriedly left the prime minister’s official residence, Palazzo Chigi, for the last time on 16 November 2011, Silvio Berlusconi looked like a humiliated man. Italy’s finances were in trouble, with international investors betting against the country’s treasury bonds; prosecutors were on his heels due to the infamous “bunga bunga” scandal, which involved an underage sex worker; European allies Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel had made their displeasure with him public.
