• JohnBoBon@lemmy.world
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    I’ll be honest I did not watch MTG’s speech, and I don’t know the full context. But I don’t understand how that stuff is supposed to sound negative. She actually wrote that down and had someone proofread it and no one said “actually, this kinda makes it sound like he’s doing good things”

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        A lot of conservatives hate LBJ and think FDR was the beginning of the end. After all, conservatives have been trying to tear down the New Deal since it was implemented.

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      The context is that she adds the word “socialism” to it. You know, making him sound even cooler.

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      Some Republicans genuinely think FDR was a bad president and the social programs he created were bad. They’re also the ones that like Reagan.

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        While they themselves benefit from social security, Medicare, and union benefits.

        I don’t understand these people.

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          My dad: Unions are what’s wrong with this country. I do everything I can to undermine them in the workplace.

          Also my dad: They’re abusing the workers! I can’t even get a day off when I’m deathly ill without getting fired. Why won’t anybody stand up for us?!

          Don’t even get me started on healthcare. He’s a diabetic. You’d think it’d be a priority for him.

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            Was talking with a guy the other day about healthcare, I didn’t start the conversation, he kept saying who’s going to pay for it. I couldn’t get him to understand it’s two fold, you already do, and you won’t be paying as much as you are now with Medicare and insurance.

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            Oh fuck yea. Mines on disability and Medicaid but anything about free healthcare is “communism”. I feel ya.

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              Sometimes there is hope. My dad was a lifelong conservative. I remember being brought by my parents to anti abortion rallies as a small child. When he got out of the military and joined a civilian job he realized it was dramatically under paid. He then became essentially the founding member for the largest EMS helicopter pilots union… Yes, EMS helicopter pilots used to be paid crappy wages. It took his fight for their benefits and creating a new union to realize that the conservative Republicans were screwing over the working class by manipulating them with social issues like abortion (he has since changed his stance on this as well). My mom on the other hand is still very stuck in her conservative ways while living off of social security, military pension and benefits from my dad’s retirement, and other social programs that help senior citizens; all while still complaining that she doesn’t have enough money and the costs of things being too high.

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        Yesterday there was that link on the black mayor that the town wouldn’t recognize. One of the passages was about him get free food for the poor in his town and the white rich folks trying to sabotage it, as if feeding hungry people was a bad thing.

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      People keep voting for Republicans although Republicans are pretty clearly against any sort of progress and without any sort of critical thinking skills. Let the roads and hospitals and schools fall apart, the only things we need in life are Churches and Retail stores, let everything else burn.

    • anadem@lemmy.world
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      It looks like her words were “taken out of context” and reassembled to produce that gem. I very much doubt those words were just how she strung them together when she spoke them herself