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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 221 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

You know, I tough it might be good to fact-check this screenshot. It might be missrepresenting something. So I did a little digging and it turns out that this is based on a document provided by the Republican Study Committee (about three quateres of house rebuplicans are members).

I read the ~~Dokument~~ document (you can find it here) and HOLY HELL THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE READ IN A LONG WHILE.

It's so full of lies, half-truths and so, so, so much finger pointing to the "woke socialist Biden Administration" (yes, that is a quote), so removed from reality... It was painfull to read. There is so much utter nonsense in that one document.

Anyhow. The headline is dead on. And it's far far from the worst thing that they are proposing.

I need to bang my head against a wall now untill i have erased the memory of reading this bullshit.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

It's all about elimination of all federal regulations:

Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) Article I Restoration Act, which would sunset all regulations after 3 years.

Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]

Fucking dinosaurs don't realize that they haven't even printed a yellow pages in around a decade. Last time I received one it was like 30 pages long for a major city.

Talk about pandering to their elderly base. Most Gen Z probably don't even know what a "yellow pages" is.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the republican party head quarters are on yellowpages.com - i think they should lead by example

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[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]

That is the dumbest idea I've heard today

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[–] Syldon 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because of the similarities between Republicans and the UK Conservative party, I am 100% convinced this is a collaborated narrative. They have collectively decided on which levers to pull and push because of data they have at hand. Some people have no moral compass at all when it comes to making money. And let's face it, this is purely about backhanders and donation funding.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Rupert Murdoch owns The Sun in the UK, and Fox News in the US. That's probably your common denominator.

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[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

It's impossible to overestimate the evil of the Republican party.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

Go play some tetris. Supposedly helps.

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[–] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 177 points 1 year ago (38 children)

How the hell do they want to convince people this is a good thing?

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 139 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Make em think their tax money is paying for "Ni--er food" and they'll burn down the entire education system.

Hell, replace Nword with F-word or Kword honestly doesn't matter.

Source: What happened to all the public swimming pools after Desegregation? And That one time a Republican signed a strict anti gun law the second the Black community exercised their Second.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

This town had a lovely swimming pool which was suddenly closed and filled in during the 1960s. I can't imagine why.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (35 children)

“Free meals is communist!!”

Which… If you think like they do, then socialism==communism==unamerican.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Public schools are already under that banner. This shouldn't even be a question.

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[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (11 children)

People who want others to suffer will support this. This will almost only impact low income (mostly minority) populations, the kind that republic voter love to hurt

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Going usual playbook, they'd prolly declare it "woke" and mumble the boilerplate shit about taxes, bootstraps, and communism.

[–] Lowered_lifted@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The USA is a deeply racist settler colony founded on doing violence to those without the privilege to escape it. The idea that someone "undeserving" might get a benefit from one's tax payment enrages the Republican voting base which is mostly white men who make over $50k a year.

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[–] mrginger@lemmy.world 159 points 1 year ago (92 children)

Ban abortions, then starve the children. If wasn't already apparent that the Republican Party is evil, this should make things much clearer.

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[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“No abortions! Those kids need to be born to starve!”

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The late great George Carlin has a bit on advocating for the unborn I can't be fucked to find atm.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If you're pre-born you're fine, if you're preschool you're fucked!

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I mean, if you put enough effort into disincentivizeing kids from attending to school, maybe they'll go back to work in meat packing plants and coal mines like god intended!!

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[–] Someology@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (13 children)

But, um, the first national free lunch programs were started in this country because when WWII started, the government found that the post-Great-Depression populace was so stunted from malnourishment that there was concern about recruiting enough eligible soldiers. So, does this mean Republicans no longer want a military? No more sending poor people to fight their wars?

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

Counting the GOP as "Blatantly Evil" shouldn't even be a lukewarm take at this point.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just like Jesus said, someone who hurts a hair on a child's head is guaranteed to get into heaven /s

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[–] Transcriptionist@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Image Transcription:

News article title reading "Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority" followed by the first sentence of the article reading "As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back."

Below the article screenshot is a picture of Henry J Waternoose III, the spider-like monster from Monsters Inc, saying "I'll starve a thousand children before I let this company get taxed"

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagine being a piece of shit as one of your party's pillars

Actually skip the imagine part

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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why are they still allowed to rule? They demonstrate clearly that they are not fit for the job.

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