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Reading through the Project 2025 PDF is insane (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 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] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 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] 1 points 6 months ago

The UK gets whatever the US gets, it just sometimes lags by a few years depending on how long it takes for the US to excrete it over here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They look at our right wing propaganda machine to see what "works." They also get the added "benefit" of our toxic sludge that is online political discourse to feed off of. They don't need new issues as they have a repository of shit to pick from...

Why does Americas #2 export need to be toxic right wing bullshit....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Its how we get our hooks into you, so we can dissolve your NHS and replace it with our vastly more profitable private health care system.

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

Wait, what’s #1? It’s freedom, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's "the news".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Finding the worst people to run the country is not a competition.

I'm only here on a marriage visa, I'm not a P.R or citizen yet, so I'm not allowed to vote against having these bigots and con-men in power. Also, while labour is somewhat moderate, the Tories are in power, and they're a bunch of fucking nut jobs. Labour can't decide what they stand for anymore, which means they will stand for nothing, and the rest of the available parties will never get to power again. The available options are shit, just like in the States. And the Yanks think they invented having a shit government, but lemme tell you, the Brits have been fucking up their own government and foreign governments for a lot longer the the US has been a thing.

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

As a yank who’s followed British politics for a while, I wouldn’t blame labour’s bullshit on the tories. They seem to have done the same thing in response to thatcher that the Dems did to Reagan “ok sure we can be the neutral centrist party, we’ll be conservative while you be regressive”. When I see actual left wing ideas coming out of the UK it’s either from your queer folks, a small and vulnerable actual left wing, or from the SNP. Even now with the tories wildly unpopular Labour seems to be taking the attitude of “we should reach across the aisle and offer to do what they propose”.

But you are right we learned how to govern from two sources, you and the Iroquois confederacy, and the Iroquois functioned (they still do, but they did then too).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

you and the Iroquois

Yeah, I'm Canadian buddy.

Edit: I'm not disagreeing with anything you said, just to tired to formulate a proper response, might come back to this tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

In a similar situation here in NZ. On a perm resident visa through partnership, can’t vote, keenly interested in being on my best behaviour here. Labour wasn’t amazeballs, but the current coalition is like watching a pack of dogs with diarrhoea tear through a quiet town. You just know it’ll be on someone else to clean up after them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's a very ambitious list. The executive branch will be a smoldering wreck before they even get started. Let's hope we get a 2028 election because 2032 and 2036 will be all about rebuilding.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (22 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] 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

So much for free speech

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (25 children)

What’s even worse, is that there are people dumb enough to think you’ll actually believe them when they try to tell you that both sides are the same thing.

Vote like lives depend on it. Because many do.

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