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  • @[email protected]
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    381 year ago

    It’s been like this for decades. “Small government” has only ever meant "I want spending on the things I like and not what you like’.

    • @captain_oni
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      251 year ago

      “I want spending on the things I like and not what you like need”.

      Fixed it for you.

  • SendMeYourTatas
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    291 year ago

    I like that the article pulled no punches: ‘Gaetz is a self-promoting jackass’ and ‘Mike Johnson, on the other hand, comes straight out of the deepest swamps of fervent Christian fundamentalism’.

  • @ghostdoggtv
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    221 year ago

    Republicans want to 1) exploit you and 2) control you. That’s it. Pretending like it’s been any different since the 1960s is idiocy.

  • Granite
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    161 year ago

    Here’s my amount of surprise:

    • ForestOrca
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      31 year ago

      Funny that, I’m both equally and simultaneously less surprised.

  • Flying Squid
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    131 year ago

    Small government when that gets them what they want, big government when it doesn’t.

  • @thesprongler
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    101 year ago

    They haven’t been the party of small government since… I don’t even know. Not on my lifetime, despite always being told that by “fiscal conservative” Republican voters. They’ve been fed such a lie.

  • @agent_flounder
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    21 year ago

    You don’t say?!

  • Poggervania
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    21 year ago

    Of course they’d care - it’s a super effective smokescreen to push either more money into their pockets or fascism.