Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared his personal income for the first time since the outbreak of war with Russia, as part of his effort to increase transparency in his government.

In 2021, the year before Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelenskiy and his family reported income of 10.8 million hryvnia ($285,000), down 12 million hryvnia from the previous year, even as his income was boosted by the sale of $142,000 of government bonds, according to a statement on his website.

In 2022, the first year of the Russian invasion, the Zelenskiy family’s income fell further to 3.7 million hryvnia as he earned less income from renting real estate he owned because of the hostilities.

Even as the war allowed Ukrainian officials to withhold revealing sensitive personal information, Zelenskiy pushed to make them publicly declare assets. Increasing transparency and tackling graft are necessary for his country to ensure continued financial aid from its western allies, even as more than $100 billion of funds are held up due to political maneuvering inside US and EU.

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      Modern liberalism aka neoliberalism isn’t really that much about progress, though. It’s more about preserving the status quo and maybe a little Incrementalism if the owner donors allow it.

      The liberties that liberals originally fought for hundreds of years ago are the floor of expected liberty now and neoliberalism is a center-right to right wing ideology.

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        Liberalism is a precursor to progressivism though. You can’t make progress without it. You can’t expect to be taken seriously this way.

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          Liberalism is a precursor to progressivism though

          In the same way as coal is a precursor to diamonds, sure. Doesn’t mean that coal is useful for making jewelry today.

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              Does that line ever convince anyone that you know the first thing about anything?

              Because it sure isn’t doing anything except making you look both ignorant and arrogant in this case 🤷

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                If I ever have to repeat it maybe I’ll let you know. The point of it is not to convince anyone about me

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                  Nope, just that they’re not to be taken seriously if they disagree with your outdated notions of how politics work 🙄

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        According to one study of 148 scholarly articles, neoliberalism is almost never defined but used in several senses to describe ideology, economic theory, development theory, or economic reform policy. It has become used largely as a term of abuse and/or to imply a laissez-faire market fundamentalism virtually identical to that of classical liberalism – rather than the ideas of those who attended the 1938 colloquium.

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

        Neoliberalism = liberalism I don’t like

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          Neoliberalism is still center-right. The political spectrum in the US is so skewed to the right that center-right feels like a progressive position.

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          according to one study

          🙄

          Neoliberalism is the ideology of Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, both Clintons, and Biden, to name a few obvious examples.

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            According to one study 🙄

            A study that samples 148 different articles, I’m sure you reviewed a good selection of them before you came to a different conclusion than the study did, right?

            It’s not like you just named 6 very different politicians and claimed they’re all the same because “neoliberal”, that would be exactly my point.

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              A study that samples 148 different articles

              Out of probably thousands if not tens of thousands available. Who did the study anyway? CAP?

              I’m sure you reviewed a good selection of them before you came to a different conclusion than the study did, right?

              No, I didn’t waste my time studying a study that says neoliberalism is never described. Partially because I myself DID provide a nom-exhaustive but definitely not non-existent description of it earlier in this very thread.

              It’s not like you just named 6 very different politicians

              Bernie, The Squad and Katie Porter are also very different. Still all adherents to progressivism

              claimed they’re all the same

              Nope. That’s not what mentioning examples of different adherents of the same overall ideology is.

              that would be exactly my point.

              That I’m claiming that all neoliberals are identical? Congratulations on being even more wrong than your original false assumptions 🤦

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                Who did the study anyway? CAP?


                Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID) is an interdisciplinary journal that addresses issues concerning political, social, economic, and environmental change in local, national, and international contexts.

                The journal has a tradition of presenting critical and innovative analytical perspectives that challenge prevailing orthodoxies. It publishes original research articles on all world regions and is open to all theoretical and methodical approaches.

                https://www.scipublications.org/report/impact-factor-of-Studies-in-Comparative-International-Development.html


                I didn’t waste my time studying a study

                If checking before you spout something incorrect is “wasting your time”, then why should anyone take what you say seriously?

                It took me way less long to check than it did to write this comment, who’s wasting time here?