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[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 50 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I'm ignorant because I'm getting old. I also feed the capitalist machine by working too much. What is project 2025?

Yes I could look it up, but I want to hear it from people not fucking biased shit bags.

[–] Jordan117@lemmy.world 87 points 7 months ago (11 children)

To avoid charges of bias, how about direct quotes from their own manifesto:

Environmentalism “is not a political cause, but a pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue. At its very heart, environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human

The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensi- tive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.

Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.

Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.

Contemporary elites have even repurposed the worst ingredients of 1970s `radical chic’ to build the totalitarian cult known today as “The Great Awokening”

Eliminate the heat-and-eat loophole. States can artificially boost a household’s food stamp benefit by using the heat-and-eat loophole. The amount of food stamps a household receives is based on its “countable” income (income minus certain deductions). Households that receive benefits from the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are eligible for a larger utility deduction. In order to make households eligible for the higher deduction, and thus for greater food stamp benefits, states have distributed LIHEAP checks for amounts as small as $1 to food stamp recipients.

the USDA should not provide meals to students during the summer unless students are taking summer-school classes. Currently, students can get meals from schools even if they are not in summer school, which has, in effect, turned school meals into a federal catering program. Restore programs to their original intent and reject efforts to create universal free school meals.

Eliminate the Head Start program. Head Start, originally established and funded to support low-income families, is fraught with scandal and abuse.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 59 points 7 months ago (2 children)

and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights

Pornography should be outlawed

Lol

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The First Amendment only covers racial slurs /s

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

But only the really bad ones like "cracker"

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, these freaks could do with some post-nut clarity.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

i am wholly convinced that a significant amount of conservatives, and especially republicans, are extremely gay and are as miserable as they are because a fundamental part of their existence is being forcibly supressed by themselves and everyone around them.

I want to live in the timeline where the republican party is brought down by rouge sluts who bring these people off behind a shed and slowly make them realize it's okay to be gay.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Those grievances really peter out at the end. Seriously? You think america is turning into a totalitarian shit hole bent on literally destroying humanity and you're also worried about a marginal food stamp benefit loophole?

[–] Jordan117@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It just goes to show how intent they are on destroying any government mechanism that helps regular people, no matter how obscure, in order to afford more tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy.

Go tell a hungry child how unimportant free school lunches are.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

That's true. They don't have to do much to make things a lot worse for those who are already in the worst situations

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 16 points 7 months ago

Yes because they're not serious thinkers, they're reactionary idiots who grasp at straws and gets mad about the smallest things they hear about

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 31 points 7 months ago

Every single one of the shitbags that wrote this deserves to be shot, as a service to humanity.

Sorry, not sorry.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

holy fucking shit, my European mind cannot comprehend this. If this was published as a work of dystopian fiction here it'd be criticised for being too over the top and unrealistic- and you folks are being actually threatened with it, what the fuck

[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Yup. The biggest threat, and the one we can do little about, are those who know this and still support it. The second largest threat are the ignorant who don't know this and blindly support it. The third are individuals who know this, don't support it, and don't support the Democratic party. I argue knowing this information and supporting Biden AND carrying that success into his second term to continue pressuring is what will enact meaningful change.

Instead we seem to be getting people who don't support Trump, the GOP, Biden, or any reasonable argument. Which while still in the minority, these folks are LOUD.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 7 months ago

While I didn't not believe, I had to look it up myself to verify that this is true. I kept seeing it but held out some semblance of hope.

Anyways, here's the full 900+ page 'mandate' that anyone can read or (not) buy a physical copy: https://www.project2025.org/policy/

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago

Of all the crimes in that list, trying to make "Great Awokening" happen has me facepalming the hardest

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

gender,

Just as a concept. Also, does this mean we won't have to use gendered terms anymore 👀

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

gender [... and] other term[s in contracts and legislation] used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights

Well, apparently there has been no free speech since "gender" became a thing.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If anyone wrote this in Western Europe, they would go to jail, unless an angry mob lynches and kills them first.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Although Europe's countries do have major parties with the same goals, they just avoid saying the quiet part out loud

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Central and Eastern Europe (mostly) is often a mess. Slovakia, Hungary, Turkey, Belarus...

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Also happening in a not-yet-dictatorship-form in Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden...

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Aecosthedark@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Porque no los dos

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Aren't they supposed to hide all that shit behind tax bills and whatnot? Shouldn't they at least sprinkle in a little bit of not-evil in there?

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

maga-oriented platform/agenda structured toward replacing existing checks and balances in government with ideological extremism, using violent force against political opponents, using minorities such as people of color, immigrants, and the trans community as a to-be-feared “other” as justification. literally mask-off fascism, in other words.

if you have time to kill, this creator does an excellent job of providing a leveled and cogent explanation. it’s quite depressing though so don’t watch if youve had a bad one. :)

edit: oops wrong link

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Nice post. Also if anyone has time to kill I've got a list ready.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

but I want to hear it from people not fucking biased shit bags.

Let's be honest, we're all biased fucking shit bags

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I want to hear it from the fucking shitbags that share my bias lol

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

None of us here are biased. We know because we've told each other so!

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

I believe you because You're on the same website I am and you're telling me so

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

I am a communist. Take that to mean what you will and assume whatever implicit bias to what I’m about to write that suits you.

During trumps presidency, the administration attempted to do a bunch of stuff through executive orders and administrative state action. Some of that was successful, some of it was a failure. Before Covid, the line of thinking seemed to be that the failures were from either oppositional administrators or sclerotic institutions and couldn’t be reasonably overcome. if anyone remembers the rhetoric back then there was a lot of stuff we associate with fascism and naziism because it represented creating a structure of parallel power to government so that when government was unwilling or unable to take action that structure could step in and perform.

No need to discipline the weirmacht into perpetrating krystallnacht when the ss will do it.

Once Covid happened, either through a shock to the system or through hidden competence, the administrative state was shown to be capable of huge feats of logistics, information dissemination (importantly sometimes misinformation dissemination), media control and direct interaction in citizens lives.

Now that the dust has settled for better or worse, the people who were willing to stoke groups like the proud boys and events like unite the right have turned their attention to the clearly capable administrative state.

No need to manage a fickle paramilitary organization if you can actually just mobilize the weirmacht, you know?

Project 2025 is just that, a plan to use the administrative state to accomplish republican policy goals successfully. While the rhetoric and policy in it is often waved around to motivate people, the important part is that post Covid it represents a plan to use the state power that defined Covid to get those policies enacted.

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

This whole site is biased shitbags tho.