• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    It’s weird to me how much some people have internalized the politics of austerity this quickly.

    The economy was humming under Biden. There was no emergency, no indicator that we have to “tighten our belts”.

    Then Bronzo enters the office and fElon with his MOE (Ministry of Efficiency) and all they want to do is cut everything. Even in the MOE Cinematic Universe…how do they possibly justify any of this shit? They plan on cutting taxes at the same time, so it’s not about balancing anything.

    What’s worse, is that I now seeing lots of people on the left saying that government is bloated and should be cut, but done with precision. WTAF?

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      23 hours ago
      1. Just use their real fucking names and stop with the childish theatrics.
      2. Nobody is going to say “yeah I think the government should have busy work jobs”.
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        23 hours ago

        Just use their real fucking names

        Nah. I do that for people I actually think deserve respect.

        Nobody is going to say “yeah I think the government should have busy work jobs”.

        False dilemma. I’m not asking liberals to say that. I’m asking that people justify the claims that government is “bloated”. I want them to define exactly what part is supposedly bloated or inefficient. I’m asking them to explain why austerity is suddenly needed when we just had a Goldilocks economy. To me it seems like they are just obeying in advance, but they just take issue with the implementation.