• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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      “Socialism for me but not for thee,” Republicans. Their desired lifestyles are heavily subsidized: suburbs, corporate bailouts, car centric society, etc.

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    This is so weird on a couple different levels. A congressman using the power of office in a blackmail attempt to force companies will advertise on a specific social media platform. I think the most disturbing part of the entire story was how it started:

    Gym Jordan, who heads the House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on “the weaponization of the federal government,”

    What a stupid time to be living.

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      For real, stuff like this would have been unbelievable less than ten years ago. If someone told me there was a house judiciary subcommittee on “Atheist Muslims Occupying the White House” I would have laughed and said “good one.”

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        McCarthyism was a real thing that happened in the past. It went away for awhile, but it is back. It was only held at bay by people who were prepared to expend effort to push it back. Whereas now…

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          Now, the House of Representatives of the United States of America is 100% bought and paid for by private equity.

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            The Democrats are just as bought and paid for too, but still those two groups are NOT EQUAL, i.e. difference in degree even if not in kind. At least, as it pertains to being “bought out”, though in other matters such as obstructionism, Republicans are of a whole other kind.

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              Right, Dems must at least pretend to not be owned by private interests, because their base remains diverse and critical. The GOP has no such operational restriction, because their base is only interested in alternative facts or dominance at any moral price.

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                Sadly true. Liberals are hampered by needing to remain correct, whereas conservatives can be moar free to do whatever is most effective (that is from a quote by my hero Jon Stewart btw - this is an homage not me claiming it as my own here:-D).

                Though on both sides there are people who try to work within the system - e.g. AOC & Bernie Sanders - vs. those who attempt to go outside of it, like MTG & Matt Gaetz.

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                  But AOC and Bernie Sanders (and others including Tlaib, Markey, Bush, and Casar) are a select few, and while they’re some of the only true patriots left in Congress, I think we need more true revolutionaries that subvert, or at least exploit, the existing system in order to unite former democrats and republicans under a new banner that puts people first.

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    When conservatives aren’t spoonfed money and power they lose their fucking minds.

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    Conservative ideas, philosophies, personalities, and ideologies tend to demonize themselves. They are the cause of their own unpopularity.

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    Gym jordan is an embarrassment to our species and all Ohians. Should be in prison for his role in cover-up the abuse of the Ohio State Wrestling team.

    He’s just mad because he’s 100% vested in whatever bullshit escapes drumpfs gravity well