• @No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston
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    302 months ago

    Is this project 2025? Like policies for the voter minorities that mentally liven in the 1950s.

    • Lemminary
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      362 months ago

      I have a feeling that the 50s were far more progressive than the plan outlines.

      • @grue
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        172 months ago

        Yeah, this is more of an “Iran 1979” kind of plan.

      • @[email protected]
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        152 months ago

        Consider that in 1965, someone wrote a book about how great it would be if cars had seat belts, and then everyone agreed and cars got seat belts. That’s what happens in a government that at least tries to care (about white people, anyway). Conservatives have spent the last half century making sure that nightmare never happens again.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          Gotta keep the cogs (workers) oiled (safe) to prevent premature wear (worker deaths) so you don’t have to replace cogs so often because oil is cheaper than getting a new cog. That seems more akin to the Scandinavian model to me. Our system of “make more money than the previous year at all costs” means that the oil can get thinner and thinner every single year because planned obsolescence puts cogs out of service around the end of their natural life (so they have to work until they die) or even prior to their natural life (workplace deaths/disability), there are a ton of cogs to choose from, so replacing is less of a financial detriment, and the healthcare/pharmaceutical machine greatly benefits from the cogs that are hurt from the capitalism machine. This is the reason why republicans can easily do shitty things (that push capitalism to its limits) and why democrats have such difficulty doing what people want them to do (that goes against capitalism).

          If we’re sure about being steadfast in this economic system, RCV has to be pushed as a ballot measure to calm things down a bit. A few states are getting RCV, but it’s not nearly enough. And while people wait for the next election and the one after that and the one after that for things to possibly get better, their friends and family are dying from this system. So expect protests, police forces, and prison systems to get bigger and bigger.

    • theprogressivist
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      192 months ago

      Nah, they wanna take us even farther back to the likes of the Spanish Inquisition.

      • @blackbelt352
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        72 months ago

        The Spanish Inquisition is too Catholic and Papist for the fundamentalist Protestant nutjobs here in the states.

        • theprogressivist
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          52 months ago

          Now, the question is, which is the “right” type of Protestant?

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          22 months ago

          So’s most of SCOTUS, but that doesn’t seem to bother them as long as they get their way.

          These aren’t reasonable people bothered by such details as glaring hypocrisy…

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          22 months ago

          I hope the Catholics in the US never have to face the day that they reap what they sowed. The unholy alliance they have with the evangelicals won’t last. And historically has always been the case. I hope they never experience it because I give a shit about people.

          Only a secular government can have minorities, and most secular governments aren’t even that good at that.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        At least the Spanish Inquisition stopped witch-hunts. I’m not so sure Republicans don’t want to start witch-hunts themselves.