Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.

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    8 months ago

    I remember when republicans were about less government. Pepperidge farms remembers….

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      8 months ago

      I don’t think they ever truly were. They’ve always supported the expansion of the military and police, having shit loads of foreign military bases, controlling women, controlling the LGBTQ+. The only way they could ever be considered to be wanting less government is in the form of their laissez-faire, pro-privitization economic policy, which just lets corporations do whatever the hell they like. So all it is, is trading one form of control to another. Instead of government controlling things, corporations control everything.

      The GOP platform is, and always has been anti-freedom.

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        Unfortunately, many accept what they’re told at face value and don’t have the critical thinking skills to know the difference.

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        At the risk of sounding like Peterson (but reversed right to left), it’s always been about an in group that deserves to rule, and an out group that people punish. It’s that simple with them, why all the hypocrisy. It’s literally that simple. I’m a good guy, they’re bad, they disagree with me, that means they’re bad and should be punished. Zero sum game stuff

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      I remember when republicans were about less government.

      They never really were. They’ve always been the party of corporate cronyism, with “less government” only ever applying to institutions from which they couldn’t generate profit.

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        Small government has only ever meant minimal regulation. It means nothing when it comes to civil rights or liberties.

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          I wish it meant minimal regulation.

          But set aside abortion and immigration. I’m seeing some crazy efforts to regulate the solar and wind energy industries. I’m seeing efforts to restrict how municipal governments can operate education and transportation infrastructure. In Austin TX, the state government threatened to take over the municipal police department. In Houston TX, they removed the Independent School District and installed their own flacks. Texas law prohibits state agencies and political subdivisions (“Governmental Entities”) from contracting with businesses that boycott energy companies, discriminate against firearm entities or associations, or boycott Israel, which has an enormous impact on the statewide financial system.

          So, I’m seeing lots of statewide regulation.