[mentalpiracy]

> The hyperbole is a bit much for me. It shouldn't amaze me, but here we are. Partisans are able to construe spending cuts and shrinking the purview of the state, with authoritarianism.

It is easy to construe blatantly illegal and facially unconstitutional acts as authoritarian, actually.

[_t9ow]

And it seems like many conservatives have collective amnesia about January 6; the fake electors plot; the Trump–Raffensperger phone call; how an astonishing number of Trump's colleagues and staffers in his first administration have unambiguously spoken out about his fascist sympathies and ambitions; how Trump unabashedly praises Putin, MBS, and Kim; how he frequently threatens journalists who write unflattering articles about him; how he describes people who do not support him as "enemies from within"; etc. While these facts are not related to spending cuts, they are profoundly germane to any assessment of the President and the intentions behind his policies.

But you can't argue with these conservatives; at this point it is fair to assume that they don't debate in good faith.

[johnnyanmac]

The silence over groceries once the election ended pretty much showed how much they really cared about getting better lives.

Or maybe Dead Internet Theory and I've just been arguing with a lot of bots. Bot that convinced a country we needed 4 more years of this.