• @HKPiax
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    I’ve never seen something as unhinged as Project 2025. I mean it, it sounds like a shitty “evil plan” cooked on 4chan, but it’s fucking real. Insane.

    • @[email protected]
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      603 months ago

      It’s not just real it’s their actual political strategy. This isn’t fringe shit, this is what they will do when they take office.

    • @Skullgrid
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      523 months ago

      it sounds like a shitty “evil plan” cooked on 4chan

      4chan has several porn and LGBT boards. this is on conservatism.

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          It’s like one of those idiots came up with this stupid idea and now none of the other morons can call this out because they would have to admit that they are watching porn.

          Like the emperor’s new clothes but in politics.

        • @redisdead
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          53 months ago

          They feel guilty about it and lash out on other people to make themselves feel better about it.

        • @cmbabul
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          13 months ago

          More like they think everyone should feel guilt about it

      • @ZILtoid1991
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        Yeah, but a lot of conservatives, and by extension fascists, are extremely hypocritical on the surface, except they like to use “hypocrisy” as a tool against their opponents, and by “hypocrisy”, I mean not following the strawman version of your ideology. I personally call this as “rulebending”, they’re manipulating their opponents rules to be even higher and thus choking them with it.

        On a deeper level they just want a lot of power, which includes them being above the law, as long as they’re loyal to the dictator/king. If project 2025 succeeds, expect one of them getting caught on live with real CP, maybe even raping a child, then will just go “so what? I can do this, you are not allowed to!”.

    • The Snark Urge
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      123 months ago

      If we’re talking about American politics in our lifetime, yeah this is tops. But it’s not history’s craziest politics by a long shot

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        Hear that everyone, it could be worse

        Thanks for the enlightening framing. When they’re rounding up people they don’t like we should tell them it’s ok, it’s been worse

        Nobody fucking cares. This isn’t some academic exercise to rank crazy times. This is the very real political strategy of a party about to take power in the US. This view from nowhere shit is so exhausting.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    1283 months ago

    Project 2025 wants to:

    • Outlaw pornography
    • Outlaw abortion
    • Outlaw homosexuality
    • Eliminate all major checks on presidential power. Say goodbye to the system of checks and balances
    • Replace many federal workers with those who are loyal only to the president

    www.defeatproject2025.org breaks it down by topic, also highly suggest John Oliver’s segment on it

        • @Fades
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          And one! Texas and shit taking first steps by requiring state id verification.

          That’s how they do things, just enough to get the foot in the door, move the goalposts and repeat

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      293 months ago

      For fascists, freedom of speech equals saying slurs.

    • @[email protected]
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      Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

      In this case, the law being freedom of speech, the protection being to say what they want and the binding being to prohibit others from curtailing that. Naturally, the push for inclusive language is part of a movement to curtail that freedom and needs to be reversed and pushed back against.

  • @[email protected]
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    433 months ago

    No because every conservative either doesn’t know about it or pretends it isn’t as bad as it is, which they rationalize by making sure not to look at it too closely.

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      273 months ago

      “It only hurts the people I don’t like” and “I would be exempt from this”.

      I have no idea why any immigrant or Hispanic would want this. He’s directly targeting all of them. There are no exceptions, there’s no points you get. This is his stated platform

      • @PunnyName
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        223 months ago

        I never thought the leopard would eat my face!

          • @ZILtoid1991
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            I woke up much sooner than when they ate my face. It was when they stripped a “supposed foreigner” of their company. The proof of them being a foreigner were having “stein” in their name, a “suspicious nose not common among real Hungarians”, not being religious, and supporting liberalism.

      • DrSleepless
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        173 months ago

        I have a gay friend that loves Trump, I tried to explain this to him but he got mad at me

        • @ZILtoid1991
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          I’m a disabled person, who voted Fidesz in 2010, and my face got eaten by the leopards. Due to the nature of my disability, I won’t receive any help, I’m barred from driving cars thus barred from many local jobs. Those who can are re-examined every few years, and even amputees are body-searched sometimes for “tied-up limbs”, and are preferred to instead seek some job which is specifically made for the disabled, which thanks to local version of ableism, is largely something specialized for the intellectually disabled, and the job descriptions often read like they were lifted from those godawful ableist jokes.

      • @XeroxCool
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        Devout Christianity is a common reason. Specifically, the kind that believes abortion is murder and is the number 1 topic that can supersede all others. If one candidate vows to outlaw it and the other vows to protect it, the conservative Christian brainwashing machine gets these out-groups to vote against all of their interests to “protect babies”.

        Taxes is another I hear. People actually beleive Republicans are fiscally responsible and going to help these out-groups, many of whom are lower middle class, get ahead by reducing tax. Ignore the part where reducing everyone’s taxes increases everyone’s gains, increasing everyone’s budget, and therefore not actually increasing anyone’s purchasing power because the market will adjust sales price higher.

        Obviously, this works on the majority demographics too. But they’re closer to the in-group than who you asked about

  • @[email protected]
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    Literally just yesterday I posted about it in my family’s political group chat and my older sister said, and I quote:

    “even though I lean left, I’m actually glad that conservatives have a playbook! Why? because Trump’s first term presidential transition (2017) was totally bungled… he needs a list of people that he can appoint from, so that these agencies don’t just fall apart… Don’t kid yourself, Biden’s team and Obama’s team and the democrats overall definitely have their own playbook and their list of potential appointees. They just don’t have to crowdsource theirs!”

    cue insane Charlie Kelly screams

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      Narrator: She did not actually lean left, but instead very far right.

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        She just likes weed.

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        One member got upset that we were discussing politics in the family group chat so much in 2020 (read: we were bashing Donald Trump and his fucking idiocy too much) and insisted we move the conversation elsewhere

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          53 months ago

          would it be better to have two trump terms, back to back, or to make a biden sandwich and have a break between the terms?

          i worry that if trump comes back from the dead he might do crazier shit than if he was just re-elected and kept eating mcdonalds at the white house.

          no way to know for sure, unless whoever built the universe made two copies just to test this out

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            83 months ago

            I’m feeling confident that the 4 year break gave him and the actually smart people funding him and giving him ideas more time to come up with efficient plans

  • @boatsnhos931
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    243 months ago

    Ok ok ok…the porn is going too far and we all know that you all will be the ones suffering…so you need to work on your blatant lies… Your own president paid to sleep with a porn star for heaven’s sake

      • @boatsnhos931
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        113 months ago

        I pray to you Jeebus, Buddha, Allah, Satan, Giant sketti monster…PLZ HALP. I mean your own as in the Republican party’s president… sorry for the funky wording teddy brosavelt

  • @Skullgrid
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    193 months ago

    but biden said umm. i can’t tell the difference /s

  • @MsPenguinette
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    13 months ago

    I’m not a capitalist but glad the free market regularly aligns with DEI. Thought the company I work at would back off a bit to the news coverage of outraged hysterics but they’ve doubled down.

  • @[email protected]
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    Why would it be bad to terminate investigations that are unlawful or contrary to national interests?

    • @[email protected]
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      Because “contarary to national interests” means “any investigation that targets friends of mine”

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        At first I naively thought “why is that a bad thing?”, but then realized who exactly decides what these “national interests” are?

        Definitely using some “weasel words” in their policy to get away with some shady shit.

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          Any law that you see that you think “Wow, no way they can enforce that! That would get EVERYBODY in trouble” is a law that is intended to be selectively enforced against unwanted people

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        That could be how you would mean it, but that is not how I interpret it or how they intended it.

            • @irreticent
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              “You guys literally just claim things without any evidence”

              How ironic…

              You, just a few comments ago:

              “that is not how I interpret it or how they intended it”

              If you’re so sure of their intent then where is your evidence?

              You’re doing the exact same thing you accused the other commenter of; you literally just claimed something without any evidence.

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                Yes because I know what they mean because I have heard them explain the problem. You guys on the other hand dont know what they believe because you dont know anything about them.

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          If something is against “national interest” and your president is trying to become an autocrat, that means they can essentially pick and choose what national interest is. This should be setting off alarm bells in EVERYONE’S head as an obvious grab for power.

          I’m not american, so I don’t have direct skin in the game, but everyone on both sides of the political spectrum who don’t self identify as fascist should be against this.

          If you don’t interpret this as something extremely dangerous, you need to have a sit down and really think about the implications.

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            So the issue is that this is not what they are referring to. What they are talking about is when the FBI (and CIA) get involved in politics or directly sway things in direction that is outside of what the FBI is for.

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      In Hungary, state institutions like the police of the tax bureau only target people and companies outside of Fidesz’es interest group. That’s what they want to adapt, so every company will fall in line with Project 2025.