this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
1098 points (96.0% liked)

memes

10160 readers
2308 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FlyingSquid 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

True in the U.S. Except, of course, in Alaska. Somehow in Alaska, very red state Alaska, home to Sarah Palin, every state resident gets a dividend from the oil revenue. Not that I approve of the reason why considering no one should be making revenue by fossil fuels, but somehow Republicans are fine with that exception. I wish they were pressed on it occasionally.

[–] Soup 15 points 10 months ago

Conservatives love telling people that winning or losing is a personal failure, and hate government interference, but also love to make life as easy as possible for large corps.

They clearly understand that regulation works, and that governments working to stabilize a country can be really powerful, and then they go and do entirely the wrong shit about while swearing that regulation is evil and governments are evil. It’s all just feelings and whatever they hear first/whatever is oversimplified and yelled.

[–] qaz 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They're fine with it because voters would hate to have their free money taken away

[–] FlyingSquid 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, but isn't it an 'entitlement?'

[–] Seasoned_Greetings 5 points 10 months ago

That's the point. It's entitlement when poor people do it. It's "the fair share that they deserve" when they do it. If conservatives didn't have double standards they wouldn't have standards at all.

[–] AngryCommieKender 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wonder, do the indigenous peoples of Alaska get that?

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 10 months ago

I believe they do, but I'm not 100% sure.