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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
absolutely this. republicans thrive on decline! republican policies bring economic decline which brings outmigration of young people and professionals, which strengthens the republican hold on government which brings even more conservative policies which brings greater decline, etc.
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Vir2ualVibes
@vir2ualvibes.bsky.social
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The mafs is hard.
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Kate Tuttle
@katekilla.bsky.social
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They bet against America! They win when people are so broken and discouraged they don’t vote.
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marythetrainer🦋🐢🤷🏻♀️😏🌎
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It certainly feels like they’re doing this to PA—a swing state is unreliable, but if they can destroy it from within they could potentially swing a whole election in their favor.
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Michael Sicinski
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Huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery....
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C.V. Danes
@cvdanes.bsky.social
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The Commanders don't care as long as they can still party at Jezebels.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
@grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social
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Exactly what's happened in Iowa. They genuinely seem to want to empty the state out so it's just a handful of Big Ag plantations and like three nice suburbs for the managers to live in.
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El Gato Astronomico
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@megatrope.bsky.social
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Once you realize the objective of the wealthy is to make the poors suffer, everything then comes into focus.
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Sir Tonk
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I remain curious about the real end goal for them. You get so many different descriptions when you drill down with a modern republican. What good is a christian theocracy if your state is devoid of all industry?
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Arash Mohebbi
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I mean logically, they should be rounded up and dropped on their own lord of the flies island
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Lori G
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Weak gun laws feed urban violence, which sells more guns to scared sub/exurbanites and holds down all manner of quality of life for urban residents.
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MizzKaraRose (she/her)🏳️⚧️
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There should be a population threshold, beneath which, you lose statehood and get merged with neighboring states
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Getaway Cat
@kduffy.bsky.social
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There's a parallel here with what private equity does to formerly thriving businesses
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Paul
@oneofthegoodpauls.bsky.social
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I love in a state where they take complete control and no chance of losing it and I really wonder ok now that they are in power what is the upside for them!? They're not even all that wealthy themselves.
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Crab Wells
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One reason you can't move away from fascism is bc it will just spread and follow you. Another is this. Fascists want you to leave, for a closely related reason: it's the lack of local resistance that allows the spreading. And if everyone with the means leaves, those without any have fewer allies.
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SatelliteOfLove
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Engels in the Outfield
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“I love the poorly educated!”
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@bashfulb.bsky.social
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argentina
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Jerome
@fjerome.bsky.social
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Car dealers and industrial farmers don’t need educated workers. Exploited is more useful.
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Rob Shum
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Make America Hungary Again!
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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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also gutting public programs that help people feeds the carceral-industrial complex
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@coffeeaddict.bsky.social
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Isn’t Texas like the lone exception of this
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dutchtreat - F the NYT
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Meanwhile, Biden's policies are causing a boom in private investments in red states especially because of the lower wages and fewer regulations there, and governors are touting their own horn while calling Biden the worst president ever still. And their voters believe it.
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Libel
@libeltheband.bsky.social
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Nihilists all.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Much easier to convince locals that everything is fine just as it is. Don't want to turn into California here!
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Shawn Connery
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That's absolutely true. What I can't get my head around though: extrapolate that tactic to infinity, and you have an impoverished, failed society. Do they not think that far ahead?
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@conanoflibraria.bsky.social
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The party that says government is broken and gets elected to prove it
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@sjelin.bsky.social
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Honestly I think this is too cynical. Wealthy people are more likely to vote Republican, so it's easier to argue why Republicans want people to be rich. Those states vote Democratic for other demographic reasons. Plus creating a popular program is a great way for a state politician to get votes
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Fiona Katauskas
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Also (an Australian here), American govts run down public services, leading to people thinking that government-run services are by definition crap and inefficient, leading to more cuts to public services. It's a self-fulfilling belief that "small govt" Republicans capitalise on.
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Ham Elliot
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It's what Republicans did in WV, which caused it to do a complete 180 politically. They pinned the collapse of the coal industry on Obama(and not the gas boom), instead of cultivating new industry. and that was it. Reddest state in the country with the absolute worst quality of life
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Angela Mitropoulos
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There's a persuasive theory about Brexit: that it was as much about halting emigration of younger workers as hatred for immigrants.
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Justin Noormand
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The GOP misery spiral mainly works if people think that somehow it’s hurting others more than it’s hurting them, which says so much about the GOP voter mindset.
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Ron Cox
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“Republicans thrive on decline” is very succinct.
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Dan Davis
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They also thrive on an ignorant populace.
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Mike B
@madhominem.bsky.social
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can't blame out-groups for problems if you don't have problems
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Ban Cars
@carabolitionist.bsky.social
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Better to reign in hell etc etc
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Andrew D Wilson
@adw.bsky.social
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Always makes me think of that book What’s the Matter with Kansas?
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Zork
@zorknogg.bsky.social
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And all along use media to convince people that the places experiencing huge in migration and economic growth are actually unlivable hell holes
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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In retrospect it's really bizarre how long Texas Republicans managed to hold the Good For Business thing running
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Serenity Now!
@cpo10za.bsky.social
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And then blue states’ taxes, & Dem policies, bail them out.
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Nolan Zugernat
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Republicans weaponize decline and ignorance.
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Jeffrey Keese
@jeffreykeese.bsky.social
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Education is generally a liberating and equalizing societal force. Two things the modern GOP despises.
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Elliott Perkins
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Right. It's not pro-business, and it never has been. It's pro-power.
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TechnicallyOwen
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I've said it many times but all conservative economic policies are a mafia bust out make the rubes scared of Tommy Devito so you can get on the inside then start piling on debt giving your buddies freebies then when you've extracted as much as you can sell it on for the next rube to fix back up.
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Tarn O
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Dobbs v. Jackson has suddenly hardened the geography of decline. There are states to which I would never move, no matter the inducement. The proliferation of hate laws
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