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even when they do something nominally good, they gotta send it through the Propagandaministerium apparatus to glue on all the party-approved buzz words and vari
by b00ty4breakfast 9mo ago
even when they do something nominally good, they gotta send it through the Propagandaministerium apparatus to glue on all the party-approved buzz words and various other bits and bobs so it reads like your grandma's facebook wall.
- Esophagus4 9mo agoMy grandmother’s Facebook wall would probably be pretty reasonable if she had one. She’s actually pretty cogent for 90 years old. She does watch too much CNN though, winds her up a fair bit. Though at that age, your world tends to shrink so at least it gives her something to do.
- plagiarist 9mo agoRight to repair is such a wild departure from their usual. It doesn't fit with grifting personal wealth, diverting tax income to billionaires, privatizing services, executing protestors, or similar activities. Makes me wonder what fucked-up horror is hidden behind this.
- shagie 9mo agoPolitically, trying to exempt farm equipment from the clean air act to try to bias the rural vote to a more republican side of the ballot.
- tencentshill 9mo agoIt allows farmers to roll coal if they say it's needed for a repair. So environmental destruction is the angle here.
- shagie 9mo agoTRACTOR PULLS: It's Not What You Think - Smarter Every Day 276 : https://youtu.be/VZ6_8WJ3mh8 https://youtu.be/VZ6_8WJ3mh8
- p0w3n3d 9mo agoIf the companies could sue you because you went to another store and bought something cheaper, they would, for sure
- kevin_thibedeau 9mo agoThe party that is against everything and for nothing needs a "win" to campaign on for their rural voters. Throw JD under the bus at home and hope the weakening dollar makes up for it increased exports.
- evanjrowley 9mo agoHow can the alignment of Right to Repair and Republicans not be obvious? The self-made John Galt who "makes do" without government assistance by repairing all of his things himself, especially his old American muscle car that "they don't make like they used to anymore" is a fantasy that resonates so strongly with the right wing that the FBI might as well just use it to screen for domestic terrorists.
- daveguy 9mo agoRepublicans stopped being libertarian when they started supporting Trump.
- krapp 9mo agoRepublicans were never libertarian in any meaningful sense. There's a reason libertarians have their own party.
- mothballed 9mo agoThe reasons libertarians have their own party is so they can be blamed for in effect voting for Trump when they did not vote for Trump. It is a form of self-flagellation to ensure no matter which sides when, it is your fault to the other side.
- mindslight 9mo agoWhen confronted with the possibility of a second term of Trump's uniquely destructive anti-leadership and proven track record of being highly corrosive to individual liberty, if you couldn't swallow your pride and vote actually-conservative then that's on you. I myself had never voted for a major party candidate in a national election. That changed in 2020.
- daveguy 9mo agoYou're right. I should have said, Republicans stopped pretending to support libertarian values when they started supporting Trump. At least they used to pretend they were for libertarian values.