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The best trick conservatives have managed to pull is to convince people that everybody is as unhinged, corrupt and immoral as they are. "Both sides" aren't the same.
That's probably the least insane part about Project 2025
Project contributor Jeffrey Clark advises the future president to immediately deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and direct the DOJ to pursue Donald Trump's adversaries by invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807. The Project recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of undocumented immigrants. It promotes capital punishment and the speedy "finality" of such sentences.
Using the military to hunt dissidents and then recommending "speedy" capital punishment is pretty on-brand for conservatives.
Conservatives look at this picture and see intolerant antifa extremists invading a peaceful conservative country because they have different political opinions.
It feels like actual innovation in all sectors has slowed to a crawl, and corporations – especially the ones run by MBA parasites – are concentrating more and more on just squeezing money out of people with various bullshit tactics, while at the same time thinning their workforce (naturally the MBAs are never under threat, though)
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Oikeistolaisen ideologian helmiä
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Vaikka en demareita kannatakaan, niin tämä Orpon lausahdus oli kyllä loistava esimerkki siitä, minkälaiseen järjettömään kusetukseen oikeistolainen ideologia nojaa, kun ottaa huomioon millä kiimalla oikeisto niitä julkisia palveluita on tässä 20 vuoden aikana tuhonnut.
Oikeistolainen "niukkuuspolitiikka" ei vaikuta ikinä johtavan niihin väitettyihin lopputuloksiin, vaan tulokset ovat käytännössä päinvastaiset:
Fiscal consolidations lead to a significant increase in extreme parties' vote share, lower voter turnout, and a rise in political fragmentation. We highlight the close relationship between detrimental economic developments and voters' support for extreme parties by showing that austerity induces severe economic costs through lowering GDP, employment, private investment, and wages. Austerity-driven recessions amplify the political costs of economic downturns considerably by increasing distrust in the political environment.
Lähde: The Political Costs of Austerity,
Our assessment of the agenda is confined to the effects of two policies: removing restrictions on the movement of capital across a country’s borders (so-called capital account liberalization); and fiscal consolidation, sometimes called “austerity,” which is shorthand for policies to reduce fiscal deficits and debt levels. An assessment of these specific policies (rather than the broad neoliberal agenda) reaches three disquieting conclusions:
•The benefits in terms of increased growth seem fairly difficult to establish when looking at a broad group of countries.
•The costs in terms of increased inequality are prominent. Such costs epitomize the trade-off between the growth and equity effects of some aspects of the neoliberal agenda.
•Increased inequality in turn hurts the level and sustainability of growth. Even if growth is the sole or main purpose of the neoliberal agenda, advocates of that agenda still need to pay attention to the distributional effects.
Lähde: Neoliberalism: Oversold?
Tulee pakostakin mieleen Stafford Beerin lausahdus että "there is no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do", ja että järjestelmän tarkoitus on se, mitä se tekee
Hiring him was the dumb move considering that it's known he's a reich-wing fuckwit
This is unrealistic because it has the thing you want in the current results
Conservatives can't be trusted to serve in public positions. They will literally always ditch their principles – if they ever had any in the first place – to serve their political goals, naturally claiming that this is what "the left" does so it's OK for then to do it too
edit: this is why any sort of jury trial for Trump is probably doomed to fail. Any conservative jurors will favor him no matter what, and will absolutely lie about their plans to do so in the selection process
revenge of the edit: so the NY conviction was by a jury, happy surprise
She was an asshole who wanted me to redo work for free because she believed her son over someone who actually knew what they were doing, and after tens of minutes of wrangling I just went "fuck it" and obliged her request to sanitize the peripherals. The sum wasn't all that big to begin with, so it's not like she was on the hook for hundreds of euros – probably got a 50€ bill instead of a 20€ one. Not knowing any better obviously wasn't the problem here, but if that's your takeaway then I really don't know what to tell you.
So yes, I did it.
No, I'm not sorry.
Yes, I'd do it again.
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