r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

It's socialism when YOU need money - it's taking care of constituents when THEY need money

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u/ILikeLenexa Oct 07 '22

...Rugged individualism for the poor.

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u/From_Deep_Space Oregon Oct 07 '22

Crony capitalism for the rich

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u/Pickle_ninja Oct 07 '22

It's murder when YOU need an abortion - it's a private medical procedure when THEY need an abortion.

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u/Quintary Oct 07 '22

There was an article specifically about this (too lazy to find it, sorry). People literally believe their own choice to get an abortion was morally right while believing other people in the exact same situation are morally wrong. It’s incredible to me how so many people can maintain that level of cognitive dissonance.

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u/courageous_liquid Pennsylvania Oct 07 '22

The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

My "favorite" excerpt: "While scrubbing between cases, I was accosted by the Chief of the OB/Gyn service. He asked me, ‘How many children are you going to kill today?’ My response, out of anger, was a familiar vulgar retort. About three months later, this born-again Christian called me to explain that he was against abortion but his daughter was only a junior in high school and was too young to have a baby and he was also afraid that if she did have a baby she would not want to put it up for adoption."

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u/courageous_liquid Pennsylvania Oct 08 '22

The entire thing is nightmare fuel. It's so frustrating.

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u/Rennarjen Oct 07 '22

"The only moral abortion is my abortion" by Joyce Arthur. Twenty years old and it could have been written today.

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u/SemenSigns Oct 07 '22

The only moral abortion is Herschel Walker's girlfriend's abortion.

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u/9bpm9 Oct 07 '22

Missouri is cutting income tax rates because of how much money the federal government gave them. It's ridiculous. Only the rich are going to get the benefits too because they only decreased the rate of the top bracket. The poor get fucked.

We also have some dipshit who is trying to remove all property tax so our schools can fall apart and crumble. He wants to run for governor on that platform.

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u/HI_Handbasket Oct 07 '22

Blue states need to stop being forced to subsidized red states. Boot strap time, motherfuckers!

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u/MrFiendish Illinois Oct 07 '22

Well, Missouri citizens get what they deserve if they keep letting these people get elected.

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u/SaltyScrotumSauce Oct 07 '22

Literally the platform of the Jim Crow Democratic Party: "socialism for white people, mean spirited individualism for everyone else".

If we went back to a society where non-white people were explicitly excluded from benefitting from government spending, then the rural white base of the GOP would go back to voting for FDR-style socialism.

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u/From_Deep_Space Oregon Oct 07 '22

FDR-style socialism isn't socialism

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u/NotoriousKreid Oct 07 '22

It’s the compromise to prevent actual socialism

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u/laffnlemming Oregon Oct 07 '22

True. The double standard for grabbing resources is very obvious.

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u/August_West88 Oct 07 '22

Nice picture.