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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My biggest frustration is not that Trump won, it's that as best i can tell these things are not even penetrating into the infosphere of maga. They are not only gleefully celebrating what they think he's doing, they are also seemingly completely ignorant of what they surely must not realize he's doing.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 21 points 6 days ago

"We're winning! We're winning! We're making those little liberal piggies squeal!"

That's all that matters. Policies are a fucking joke. They're not real. It's all vibes-based politicking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

These Republicans are worse than locusts.

[–] ArtVandelay 5 points 5 days ago

Last I heard you could eat locust too

[–] singletona 2 points 5 days ago

Locusts are at least honest when they come to destroy everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Oh I can feel the trickle!

[–] dx1 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

I hate the language around the federal budget. First, how budget figures are reporting in 10 year intervals, when everything else is reported in 1 year intervals. So everything sounds 10 times bigger. When like only 5% of the population ever looks at the federal budget, this creates a TON of confusion.

Second, how reductions in tax (like to the rich) are reported as "giveaways". Taxes go in, not out. That's a reduction in revenue, not an expenditure or liability. You can say, "shift the tax burden even more onto the lower and middle classes". Then it's actually accurate. Getting fired from your job is not an expense, it's a loss of income. Same thing.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You will be paying for them in tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Think of it as redirecting the food assistance to leopards, feeding them poor maga faces.

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