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- jcgrillo 2y ago[flagged]
- duderific 2y agoI don't know if they are more competent now. There are just fewer people willing to push back, and few to no guardrails in place for when the leader doesn't adhere to the usual governmental and ethical norms.
- Jerrrry 2y ago[flagged]
- rUsHeYaFuBu 2y agoNonplussed here. In what way is normality returning to the social order? Or are you pegging the 'normal' social order to some particular time in the past?
- Jerrrry 2y ago[flagged]
- krapp 2y agoIt's weird that people like you use dyeing hair as some kind of shorthand for radical leftist ideology as if you stepped out of a time portal from the 1950s. Zoe Quinn really did a number on you guys, didn't she?
- Jerrrry 2y ago[flagged]
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- anonfordays 2y ago>Thank you so much for fucking up my son's future, and doing your best to destroy our country that you apparently have been groomed to hate so much. I literally just bought a new vertical tiller for some backyard food plots as a hedge against just how bad things may get, because you people couldn't be bothered to listen to reasoned criticism of what you were actually doing. And don't think I don't know your frustration - I've been reading reactionary analysis long before the term deep state entered pop culture. This is the exact same screed I see from right-wingers write when the left gets elected, almost verbatim.
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- rUsHeYaFuBu 2y agoPossessing a persecution complex and actually experiencing persecuion are separate things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion
- anonfordays 2y agoIndeed, just because one dellusionally believes they are presecuted, does not mean they are. People have been memeing and satirizing leftist about this for decades at this rate, "oppression Olympics" and such. More recently, "Rugged. Vegan. Compassionate. Victim": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=arw1pcqLI_M https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=arw1pcqLI_M
- rUsHeYaFuBu 2y agoI'm pretty sure the current administration has already shown themselves willing to abandon many previous established norms formed over the history of the US so I am not entirely convinced this is returning to "normalcy". Well maybe authoritarianism is is the 'natural' place that the social order tends to.
- Jerrrry 2y ago[flagged]
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- arp242 2y agoI guess it depends on what you mean with "competent". In essence their pitch is that government is bad, so from that sense "competent" means "able to burn these institutions down". From that perspective these people do seem more "competent" in various ways: there is less chaos, a better sense on how to use the legal means, more focus. Trump may be a unfocused bumbling fool, but the Project 2025 people aren't. This is not my (and presumably your) definition of "competent", which would be "able to run these institutions well", or something along those lines. And since it seems there isn't any real accountability any more other than anything that is strictly legally imposed, anything that goes wrong in this process is just blamed on the democrats, deep state, or whatever. Or its simply denied that the problems exists in the first place.
- jcgrillo 2y agoThis was the sense in which I was using the word "competent", thanks for clarifying. What I meant was now they are better able to realize their destructive vision, but insofar as I can tell its mostly the same vision as it ever was.
- nradov 2y agoThe position they've taken is that they want to shift cancer funding from treatment to prevention. I have no idea whether this makes any sense or if it will actually happen but that is the current messaging.
- greatpatton 2y agoThere is no prevention strategy that will prevent all cancers. Even people with the most healthy lifestyle can get a cancer. That's why you have to do both.
- arp242 2y agoJust to give one example: the majority of men will get prostate cancer if they live long enough (~70% of men over 80). It's just that other things tend to kill people before the cancer.
- lII1lIlI11ll 2y agoWouldn't that require... conducting research on cancer prevention?
- yongjik 2y agoDemocrats need to put these messages out hard. If they win the 2026 election we might even have a chance at putting a brake on Trump's idiocy. (I know, I know, trust Democrats to shoot their own foot in the most crucial moments, but one can hope...)