• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Same as it ever was.

    The Cruelty Is The Point.

    They’d put all the money in a literal pile and set it on literal fire before they’d just help people who need the help.

    If I had to characterize the US govt when it comes to helping its citizens I’d compare it to Immortan Joe.

    Immortan Joe: Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    Sure but helping the homeless would make them actual Christians following the teachings of Christ and we know that now what Republican Christians do.

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    Cruelty is the point. I really don’t think this country will ever change in any positive direction, sadly.

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    countless after countless studies showed UBI will eliminate homelessness and wasteful bureaucracy to keep watch of welfare recipients and cheats

    Everyone: Nah, we don’t do that here.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      How else are you going to keep everyone else in line if the fear of being homeless isn’t hanging over their heads?

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      Rich people in control of the city, it’s businesses and services: nah, we don’t do that here.

      • ftfy
  • andallthat@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    “Showy? Useless? Expensive? Hurts poor people? Sounds pretty good but are you sure there is no way to put a yuge golden TRUMP sign on it?”

    Trump (probably)

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Entirely unsurprising. But invading a blue city is the kind of thing that gives those with the authoritarian mental illness rock-hard erections.

    Helping people? Fuck that noise. We want to brandish our penis compensation devices and bust some heads! Time to own the libz!

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They don’t want to help people. They want to surpress people. To those people it hurts to help but they feel pleasure from harm. Those types are everywhere in our society but they have found a common home in maga.

  • buttnugget@lemmy.worldBanned
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    Kind of like the new ICE budget. I remember seeing a tweet from some right wing lunatic saying they didn’t care if it costs a trillion dollars, deport every single undocumented immigrant. They’ve always had an endless budget for things like war and terror.