witchesvspatriarchy

it's not going to happen anyway, and Trump doesn't mind adding significantly to the deficit (he did last time he was in office)

to be honest, Trump and Musk are not ideologically driven, the grift and their personal desires matter more than anything like adherence to principles of free market capitalism or whatever other nonsense.

And I can't tell you how the mind of a lay reactionary works - they seem capable of rationalizing and accepting contradictions quite easily. It is simultaneously true for them that they view themselves as "anti-authoritarian" and promoting a diminished government, while enthusiastically supporting police violence and pushing to pass laws that outright criminalize sexual orientations or gender identities they don't like.

So yeah, plenty of hypocrisy dunking to go around, I just don't know that it makes a difference at this point - contradiction and hypocrisy does not seem to be a problem for reactionaries.

EDIT: shoot, I meant to say - also there are reactionary forms of UBI, see Milton Friedman's support (usually re-articulated as the "Negative Income Tax") and Andrew Yang's support, etc.

yeah, that's a solid "yikes" from me - I try to be nice to people, even reactionaries - but it's hard for me to not start eyeing the exit and want to escape any further interactions 😬