• Jordan117@lemmy.world
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    To avoid charges of bias, how about direct quotes from their own manifesto:

    Environmentalism “is not a political cause, but a pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue. At its very heart, environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human

    The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensi- tive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.

    Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.

    Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.

    Contemporary elites have even repurposed the worst ingredients of 1970s `radical chic’ to build the totalitarian cult known today as “The Great Awokening”

    Eliminate the heat-and-eat loophole. States can artificially boost a household’s food stamp benefit by using the heat-and-eat loophole. The amount of food stamps a household receives is based on its “countable” income (income minus certain deductions). Households that receive benefits from the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are eligible for a larger utility deduction. In order to make households eligible for the higher deduction, and thus for greater food stamp benefits, states have distributed LIHEAP checks for amounts as small as $1 to food stamp recipients.

    the USDA should not provide meals to students during the summer unless students are taking summer-school classes. Currently, students can get meals from schools even if they are not in summer school, which has, in effect, turned school meals into a federal catering program. Restore programs to their original intent and reject efforts to create universal free school meals.

    Eliminate the Head Start program. Head Start, originally established and funded to support low-income families, is fraught with scandal and abuse.

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      and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights

      Pornography should be outlawed

      Lol

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          i am wholly convinced that a significant amount of conservatives, and especially republicans, are extremely gay and are as miserable as they are because a fundamental part of their existence is being forcibly supressed by themselves and everyone around them.

          I want to live in the timeline where the republican party is brought down by rouge sluts who bring these people off behind a shed and slowly make them realize it’s okay to be gay.

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      Those grievances really peter out at the end. Seriously? You think america is turning into a totalitarian shit hole bent on literally destroying humanity and you’re also worried about a marginal food stamp benefit loophole?

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        It just goes to show how intent they are on destroying any government mechanism that helps regular people, no matter how obscure, in order to afford more tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy.

        Go tell a hungry child how unimportant free school lunches are.

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          That’s true. They don’t have to do much to make things a lot worse for those who are already in the worst situations

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        Yes because they’re not serious thinkers, they’re reactionary idiots who grasp at straws and gets mad about the smallest things they hear about

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      Every single one of the shitbags that wrote this deserves to be shot, as a service to humanity.

      Sorry, not sorry.

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      holy fucking shit, my European mind cannot comprehend this. If this was published as a work of dystopian fiction here it’d be criticised for being too over the top and unrealistic- and you folks are being actually threatened with it, what the fuck

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        Yup. The biggest threat, and the one we can do little about, are those who know this and still support it. The second largest threat are the ignorant who don’t know this and blindly support it. The third are individuals who know this, don’t support it, and don’t support the Democratic party. I argue knowing this information and supporting Biden AND carrying that success into his second term to continue pressuring is what will enact meaningful change.

        Instead we seem to be getting people who don’t support Trump, the GOP, Biden, or any reasonable argument. Which while still in the minority, these folks are LOUD.

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        gender [… and] other term[s in contracts and legislation] used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights

        Well, apparently there has been no free speech since “gender” became a thing.

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      Aren’t they supposed to hide all that shit behind tax bills and whatnot? Shouldn’t they at least sprinkle in a little bit of not-evil in there?