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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 113 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We have problems with: affordable housing, healthcare costs, college costs, a rampant threat of literal white extremist terrorism, a disappearing middle-class, and millions of children who go hungry every day.

This is the bullshit the conspiracy theory loving Republicans do instead of actually, you know, governing.

They have zero ideas, zero morals, and zero concept of hypocrisy. What a waste of time these 2 years in the republican run House has been.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 36 points 1 year ago

This is mostly about normalizing "impeachment" so that Trump's two impeachments don't look as bad. This is a classic Republican tactic: when your guy gets caught doing "thing" start slinging "thing" around at your enemies until it loses all meaning.

Similar tactic to co-opting "fake news", "woke", "feminism", and "critical race theory". All were terms that threatened to undermine the conservative ideology, and so were quickly hurled around as insults until their original meaning was completely distorted.

[–] SevFTW@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago

Not just republicans, conservatives world wide have no relevant policies and have to resort to populist fear mongering to stay relevant. Look at England, Canada, Germany, Italy and RuZZia, they have nothing to offer but discrimination and ostracism.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Power and control is all the global Right wing want, the sooner we accept and understand that the better off we'll be when dealing with them.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I'm wildly in favor of anything Republicans do that's a waste of time, because most of what they do is so much worse than that.

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Make sure to register future voters for the next elections.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Republicans actually want people to suffer. They love it, it shows that they're winning. The more misery in the world, the closer it is to their ideal.