Mastodawn

#Republicans #CommonGood #NaturalDisasters #authoritarianism
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"Modern Republicanism’s belief that the core role of government is instead to wield the power of the state to punish one’s enemies goes beyond myopic allusions to authoritarianism, fascism or caesarism to a premodern, pre-capitalist rival conception of government known as patrimonialism, in which the state is not meant to serve society but society is meant to serve the state — and the autocrat who runs it."

#Republicans #CommonGood #NaturalDisasters #authoritarianism
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"The most obvious indicator of this premodern turn is the longstanding Republican hostility to any policy meant to promote the public good. Public schools? Defund and privatize them. Department of Education? Abolish it. Medicare, Medicaid and public health care? Slash and repeal them. Public transit? Kill it. Public libraries? Defund them, ban certain books and doxx librarians with the threat of criminal penalties."

"Community and public health? Attack and undermine it. Community centers? Shut them down. Public lands? Sell them off. Public and national parks? Slash them. Public servants? Attack and fire them. Public restrooms? Monitor them, and make it a crime for people to use what are deemed the 'wrong' ones. Aside from the military, modern Republicanism is fundamentally allergic to any governmental … actions that promotes the public interest, safety and well-being…."

#Republicans #CommonGood
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JB Oct 13, 2024

@wdlindsy Modern Republicans want government Constitutionally limited to giving it access to cheap natural resources, cheap and obedient labor, and more territory with both. #republicans #commongood

@JBShakerman Yes — and always, always, used as a weapon to serve the interests of the ruling elite and keep everybody else knocked into place.

JB Oct 13, 2024

@wdlindsy Republicans want a US government modeled after the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, the 19th Century Mexican president whose wise leadership led to the 1910 Revolution and his permanent exile.

@JBShakerman Well-noted. Yes, they want to take us back to models like this.

Peter Butler Oct 13, 2024

Phiend Oct 13, 2024

@wdlindsy

#RepublicanTerrorists

@Phiend Yes.

@wdlindsy I think it’s time we call them what they are to their faces. I’m not afraid.

@Phiend I agree.

@wdlindsy Fascism is based on impotence politics. The government cannot accomplish anything. "Everything is *their* fault" and the government's only purpose becomes mass deportation and border policing

Oct 14, 2024

@peterbutler Yes, and yet, ironically, it's all about asserting stongman, macho dominance and power in a very strutty performative way.

Dannyboyguyman Oct 13, 2024

@wdlindsy I been sayin'

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Danny the Weary (@[email protected])

A movement hostile to the idea of public goods and socially valuable institutions of the democratic West. Is it the Kremlin or the GOP....? whynotboth.gif

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