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The most NPR liberal thing in the world is too observe fascist thugs destroying government functions in order to purposefully break them, asking them why they are doing it, totally accepting the framing they present, and then being totally shocked and forlorn later lamenting something along the lines of "Wait, THEY DIDNT DO WHAT THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO!!! Where they lying this whole time!?!?!?!?".
-_-
Like...again come on NPR you found the biggest idiot in the whole group who is apparently not pretending to believe there was a bunch of inefficiency that needed to be trimmed away in government.
The rest of us don't need to waste breath talking to these people to understand, by focusing this article as a "See you are wrong MAGA about your claims!!" piece it frames the discussion in that particular way neoliberalism enables fascism. I feel like this article is the embodiment of the neoliberal strategy of fighting far right conservatives which always starts with hallucinating a potential person between their shitty republican lite beliefs and hardline rightwing batshit crazy beliefs and talking to them while ignoring all the actual, real life human beings around them suffering.
No, if these were real reporters they would have come in guns blazing with the framework that this was never about efficiency because it wasn't and it is absurdly disengenous to either pretend it is or find the one idiot in a sea of disengenous evil bastards to talk to that didn't realize they signed up for the evil thugs brigade.
They lie.
We know they are lying.
They know that they are lying.
They even know that we know they are lying.
We also know that they know we know they are lying.
They, of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying.
Yet they still lie.
In Russia, the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
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In the U.S. the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country. shrugs Must be all that money.
SeeMarkFly (2025)
the cycle continues, we remain plausibly sentient beings condemned to a bad Beckett play