https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/op5aro/the_texas_republican_party_platform_is_insane

  • Woly [any]
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    3 years ago

    Defund big government not the police

    How the GOP managed to thread that ideological needle I will never understand.

    Also, lmao @ "Repeal Hate Crime Laws" with no additional explanation

    • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      That's where the overlapping ideologies and simultaneous friction between GOP types and Libertarians comes in. The hardcore Libertarians are pretty based when it comes to the police in a vacuum, but of course that doesn't mean you target those resources elsewhere, you just let the Market™️ handle socioeconomic issues.

      The GOP types and some Lolbertarians recognize that their gains and current status will be laid to waste without some sort of state policing apparatus, because deep down they know there's always the possibility that they won't have the upper hand if the marketplace truly was laissez-faire. Too many commies, minorities, liberals, democraps have infiltrated the current marketplace for them to truly feel comfortable about living in AnCapistan

      • Woly [any]
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        3 years ago

        Too many commies, minorites, liberals, democraps have infiltrated the current marketplace for them to truly feel comfortable about living in AnCapistan

        Funny that it's this they're afraid of and not, y'know, the innate brutality of markets. But I guess they wouldn't be an ancaps if they weren't deluded.

    • BelovedOldFriend [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How the GOP managed to thread that ideological needle I will never understand.

      Cops uphold property rights and white supremacy and GOP pols and voters know this.

      • Woly [any]
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        3 years ago

        "No authority, except for cops!"

        It's just hard to imagine being so secure in your identity that you think it's impossible for the police to be a threat to you.

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Whatever else you want to say about Jan 6th, it was an incredible example of people so coddled by the state and economy that they couldn't imagine consequences for their actions

          Like we know not to take fuckin' selfies at protests because we'd get hunted down and slaughtered, while these chuds didn't even have that concept in their heads

      • Deadend [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Imagine instead of the EPA - it's someone on the pollution beat with a gun. Just going dirty Harry on oil company execs for pollution.