• @[email protected]
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    263 days ago

    Can someone explain the benefits that GOP are trying to achieve with this rule? Does the censoring somehow provide an advantage to their popularity?

    • @MirthfulAlembic
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      152 days ago

      I think it is part of making government agencies ineffective to prove their ideology that these agencies should be abolished and replaced with private companies (or not at all). That way, they can say come election time, “See? Government can’t do these things well. We should eliminate these agencies.” Many people will forget they are also the reason the agencies are shitty.

      They have tried this with underfunding them in the past mostly. This is a much more direct approach.

    • @Red_October
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      At one point Trump literally suggested reducing reported Covid cases by just not testing. They genuinely think the important thing is not to talk about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 days ago

        Its how conservatism works.

        If it makes you feel uncomfortable, sweep it under the rug and ignore it. Nothing is allowed to be bad or need fixing, nothing is allowed to change or be different, thats all scary.

        • @dejected_warp_core
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          What troubles me the most is that sounds like a very deeply abused person. It’s a kind of person that has problems introspecting and managing their emotions. Is that what we’re really up against? Is it all just mental illness?

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      243 days ago

      Trumps first term was stymied by an extremely inconvenient global pandemic.

      He doesn’t want to be undermined by subject matter experts again

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      73 days ago

      They’re taking things out from Hungary’s (and Russia’s) playbook. Your voters cannot fault you for something they don’t know about.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 days ago

        Voters usually have a pretty good idea of whats happening but it’s part of a general malaise of misinformation.

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        2 days ago

        Biden instituted the rule because he was taking over the administration from ignorant, conspiratorial hands. I highly doubt the same care is needed here. Please refrain from telling people to “calm their tits.”