hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
For a more macabre example, consider that Germany was able to successfully conceal the Holocaust from most of its people- largely by the government telling transparent lies.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Uh, thats not true. ‘Epstein class’ ideas are pretty bipartisan proleslop, antisemitic conspiracy theories are now widespread on the left, project 2025 conspiracy theories were everywhere, etc.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I’ll agree that Hanania looks weird, but it’s not that bad.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
The real historical figure who most resembles Trump is Demetrius Poliorketes, incidentally. But to keep on the Roman theme Marius is more topical.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
??? It’s true that there’s not a lot of ‘nanothermite insider trading with ties to the bush family’ style trutherism these days but ‘Israël did it’ is more mainstream than ever, and that was always a big chunk of trutherism.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Im referring to Demetrius poliorketes’s behavior in Athens, specifically, as the savior god.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Trump is Marius. He’s pissing off the elite, he’s violating all sorts of unwritten rules, he’s engaging in poliorketic egotistical excess, but he’s not actually breaking the organs of the republic.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
America’s social spending is not an outlier compared to European countries:
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are also abundant conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination. Stuff like this just brings the crazies out of the woodwork.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
He did pass out shit to the Republican base. Faith based charities, tax cuts that favor breadwinner families, Medicare part D… all favors thé Republican base.
It may include things that there are good reasons to do, but they do favor individual republicans.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think you’re significantly overrating thé knowledgeability of low information voters. To them, thé President can totally helicopter out cash.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Robot welding has been used for a while in detroit, hasn’t it? It’s clearly a mature technology that they just hadn’t figured out how to deploy to this particular application.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
To be completely fair, Bush redirected a lot of federal domestic spending towards republican supporters.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I remember trump bux during Covid- this is nothing new. Government helicopter money does not go back into the helicopter, ever. Trump specifically trying to bribe voters is also nothing new.
I mean I’m going to take my $5k. My act of resistance won’t stop inflation. I’ll probably put it in silver.
We get it, you don’t like what the Republican Party has become. That’s fair, they’re not what I would pick. But we’re stuck with two rising tides of fiscal irresponsibility, one of which wants multiple new spending programs on the scale of social security, and the other one wants to chum the water with stimmy checks to win elections. We will never have a balanced budget again, not unless we manage to outgrow government spending.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For middle class people this is true. But if you qualify for this program you also qualified for government funded childcare.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Convincing blacks to marry instead of living in sin would do wonders for reducing what we spend on their dysfunction. It's a win-win. Yeah, some of the somalis will get the money, but they already were through daycare fraud, this is just a slightly different set of paperwork for them to fill out when they defraud the government out of the same amount of money.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Poor but physically fit 20somethings who are often the only men with full time incomes in their social class and place, and who get spiffy uniforms and come with a house to live in where your parents don't...
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IME homeschooling is fairly middle class- the poorer people trying it tend to be pushed into the public school system or charters as a cheaper alternative, while the wealthy tend to bail out by paying lots of money for private schools that fit their particular educational philosophy. And make no mistake- the vast majority of homeschoolers are not doing this out of a commitment to 'education freedom' or 'children's rights' or even really opposition to systems.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Of course the government has been running a program to use welfare policy design to destroy the american family for a long time. Insofar as this policy pushes to reverse that, it's a good thing. I don't find it particularly well designed but it's an improvement- and possibly the best Trump can do.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Stay at home moms do something valuable, they're worth encouraging, and this policy is terribly designed. But it's also just not enough to push very many people out of the workforce. Full time employment at minimum wage pays a lot more than this program does, and 90% of workers make more than double the minimum wage.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For the class that actually becomes single mothers, there are simply not eligible men to marry. And that's with a supremely reasonable definition of eligible(like non substance addicted, full time employed, not currently engaged in the criminal justice system- simply not happening below the income cutoff for this program).
I suspect that this will be used by, like, grad students, or families with the husband on disability, and stuff like that.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is almost certainly not driving anyone out of the workforce- the amount is simply too low.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I suspect the median recipient is a nonvoter.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The most likely effect is shifting some of the money to families with one non-working parent- probably the father in most cases, because everything about the underclass is horribly dysfunctional. Even the underclass isn't replacing waged income with $9k/yr.
Being bad at math isn’t a conspiracy theory.
Some good examples of left-aligned conspiracy theories would be Russiagate, thé project 2025 freak out, or a good chunk of the trans genocide claims.
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