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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

Republicans criticize publicly funded elections as "lining the pockets of politicians" while accepting and promoting millions in dark money from lobbyists.
 
Things that can't be unseen for $400, Alex
 
 
avalon said:
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It was always a weird and wasteful practice to just give people straws even if they didn’t want them.
 
PhDeac said:
It was always a weird and wasteful practice to just give people straws even if they didn’t want them.
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Yeah I assume even if they bring you one automatically and you don't use it, they’re just gonna throw it away.
 
avalon said:
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So I preface this by saying that I was an English major, and never took a poli sci class or any Economics class. Could someone explain to me how having to ask for a straw is Socialism?
 
Coach O said:
So I preface this by saying that I was an English major, and never took a poli sci class or any Economics class. Could someone explain to me how having to ask for a straw is Socialism?
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It’s actually the opposite since it disincentives free straw handouts. But Nunes is a fucking moron and a transport panderer to rube nation, so I’m sure this will work. Something like, “back in my day we didn’t have to ASK for a straw!”
 
It's pretty clear that "socialism" and "communism" to many conservatives (especially of the Trumpian rube variety) often has less to do with any actual Dem policies that resemble those ideologies, and much more to do with whatever cultural, economic, or social touchstones conservatives see in their opponents. In the Second Red Scare, there was often little evidence that many of Joseph McCarthy's targets were communists or "pinkos" or whatever, but what they did usually have in common was that they fit a certain stereotype - often wealthy, well-educated (Ivy League), with long years of government and/or academic service - not unlike the "librul elites" now disdained by Trumpites. One of the favorite targets of right-wingers in those years was Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson, an old money graduate of Yale (to be fair, Acheson gave as good as he got, calling McCarthy and other Republicans of his ilk "the primitives"). He was called "the Red Dean" by conservatives and accused of being, at best, a Communist stooge - yet in fact he was a militant Cold Warrior who hated the Soviets. The John Birch Society in the 60s believed, among other things, that city and local governments putting fluoride in public water was a communist plot to render red-blooded American males infertile or impotent. Nunes and others like him are just following in that grand "tradition" - not handing out straws automatically is a sign of degenerate socialism!
 
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It is a creative use of a straw in a straw man argument.
 
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Coach O said:
So I preface this by saying that I was an English major, and never took a poli sci class or any Economics class. Could someone explain to me how having to ask for a straw is Socialism?
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wakelaw13 said:
It’s actually the opposite since it disincentives free straw handouts. But Nunes is a fucking moron and a transport panderer to rube nation, so I’m sure this will work. Something like, “back in my day we didn’t have to ASK for a straw!”
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Yep.

This is what passes for Republican passion. Pure stupidity.
 
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