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[–] [email protected] 183 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The listed excerpts are actually quite tame compared to what the actual plan is.

slashing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) funding, dismantling the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security

invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and directing the DOJ to pursue Trump adversaries

create a federally funded "American Academy" that would deliver online courses and grant free degrees that excluded "wokeness or jihadism". The plan would also be funded by taxing the endowments of major universities

every state report exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother's state of residence, and by what method

I stopped looking, not because there was any shortage of further crazy shit. There’s plenty more.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

Yeah, and there's a fair amount of money behind this push.....which like....I'm not American, don't live in the States, but my sister and her wife do...and I've gotta figure out how to get them the fuck out if things go Trump again....

Edit: also, living in the UK I run into loads of people who go "Well, if Trump gets in again, that's not really our problem..." but like....the USA makes they're problems everyone's problem. And another Trump presidential term would be a huge problem for the rest of the world....

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (14 children)

also, living in the UK

Yeah, I've been following UK politics by way of TrashFuture podcast and I gotta say... your immigration plan is to deport people to Rwanda and your government just endorsed a Trans-Panic Committee to decide whether teenagers can consent to gender-affirming care.

And these are the moderate Labour Party positions. Liz Truss wants to do worse.

God damn, dude. Finding the worst people to run the country is not a competition. You can just let the Yanks have this one.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 6 months ago (43 children)

Over in [email protected] I got banned for posting about Project 2025. They claim it breaks rule 2 which is to only post pro-conservative or anti-liberal posts. Fucking echo chamber over there.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same as r/conservatives was.

Projection is the game. You see these wackos all over YouTube bemoaning “my comments keep getting deleted” (which doesn’t seem true), yet go on their turf and they’ll happily silence you as that’s different.

Reminds me of “the only moral abortion is mine”. The only people being silenced is us, what we’re doing might look the same but trust me bro it’s not.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 months ago (10 children)

"I literally can't tell either side apart. Both sides are the same!"

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Finally, gender is now illegal. We did it bo- I mean people

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Without genders, isn't all sex homosexual?

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (34 children)

Pornography should be outlawed

I mean, it's quite a departure for a party that whinges about the First Amendment to straight up move to the government controlling what can be published, i.e. actual literal censorship. But hey, conservatives aren't very logical.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Always remember that if the conservatives who claim to love the US, had been born in 1750, they would have been Loyalist Redcoats.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Literally nothing to actually help the nation or solve problems.

Just culture war, and only culture war.

And unfortunately by the looks of this comment section, it works. It forces people to focus on the culture war aspect of it and not the lack of actual progress, or the changes behind the scenes while we all fight over the culture problems and the real dismantling happens out of view.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

I mean, this is beyond culture war. This is tyranny of the state. We're not exaggerating when we say they want to put us in the camps.

This is important shit we're talking about, not a distraction.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (3 children)

"This shit has to be fake..."

2016 Trump flashbacks

Ah shit. It's not fake. Please vote.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Ohhhh taking away my gender and rights as a transgender American protects my rights, I see I see.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

No it protects their rights. Gotta remember we aren’t real Americans

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago

If the term Abortion isn’t allowed to exist in any possible law then does that make it legal?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago

"Delete and prevent the use of these terms to protect ~~freedom of speech~~ my fragile and extremely traumatised psyche"

Fixed that for them

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (9 children)

They want to protect free speech, by creating an enforced list of banned words?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Tbf I don't trust the FBI any more than I trust the CIA or the NSA or the ATF, I'm on board with looking at those agencies and their activities.

That's about it though, and I don't really trust the republicans to do it either, so..

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

Yes, but "unlawful or contrary to the public interest" is the language the 2025 drafters have used in the past to argue that people involved in a literal violent insurrection should not be prosecuted. In this case we're not talking about forming a more equitable justice system, we're talking about celebrating the attempted overthrow of the government.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Yes, but they're speaking in code.. They need the FBI to stop investigating republicans, Those that the law protects but does not bind you see...

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

We're gonna need it

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Protect free speech by censoring free speech"

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is no good conservative alive today. Conservatism is a plague long overdue for a cure.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They call the good ones Liberals now

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is this project 2025? Like policies for the voter minorities that mentally liven in the 1950s.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have a feeling that the 50s were far more progressive than the plan outlines.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Yeah, this is more of an "Iran 1979" kind of plan.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Nah, they wanna take us even farther back to the likes of the Spanish Inquisition.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

Terminate those not in the national interest?

I bet any investigations of republicans are immediately terminated, meanwhile any “leftist” under investigation is pushed through a kangaroo court.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Why do conservatives hate free speech and freedom so much?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Merriam-Webster

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

man this reminds me of that post i commented on that was on the hexbear instance...

it got removed and im pretty sure i was banned, idk what the fuck those guys are smoking over there lmao.

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