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[–] [email protected] 209 points 1 month ago (10 children)

From the v1 Project 2025 website:

  • End no fault divorce
  • Complete ban on abortions without exceptions
  • Ban contraceptives
  • Ban IVF
  • Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%
  • Higher taxes for the working class
  • Elimination of unions and worker protections
  • Raise the retirement age
  • Cut Social Security
  • Cut Medicare
  • End the Affordable Care Act
  • Raise prescription drug prices
  • Eliminate the Department of Education
  • Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools
  • Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools
  • End free and discounted school lunch programs
  • End civil rights & DEI protections in government
  • Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education
  • Ban books and curriculum about slavery
  • End climate protections
  • Increase Arctic drilling
  • Deregulate big business and the oil industry
  • Promote and expedite capital punishment
  • End marriage equality
  • Condemn single mothers while promoting only “traditional families”
  • Defund the FBI and Homeland Security
  • Use the military to break up domestic protests
  • Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in “camps”
  • End birth right citizenship
  • Ban Muslims from entering the country
  • Eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more
  • Continue to pack the Supreme Court, and lower courts with right-wing judges
  • Denying most veterans VA coverage
  • Privatizing Tricare
  • Classifying transpeople as "pornographic"
  • Banning gender-affirming care
  • Ban all porn
[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It blows my mind that anyone can be that wrong on all topics.

It's like the difference between choosing random answers on a multiple choice test versus knowing the right answers and actively avoiding them to get the worst result. It feels like they're trying to punish the US for something.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Right? Like I've thought about how political decisions would be harder if the Republicans weren't reliably wrong on everything.

Like, if they were pro-gay-rights but anti-environment, that would be more of a thinker. But they're just wrong on everything.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Fascism, baby.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're telling me all that is unpopular??! The "Don't Tread on Me" folks are falling over themselves to have this?

Sounds really non-tready, lol

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This list just reads as "the billionaire list of punishments for the poor that think they're people" I say we craft the inverse list where literally everything the billionaires enjoy is legislated away, kind of like they want to legislate away our way of life we should legislate away their way of life or I guess legislative way their ability to have billions of dollars.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ban private jets

Ban megayachts

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A conservative. Conservatives are the minions of the billionaires. We cannot regulate/destroy billionaires without first defeating conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All you need to do is look at the lemee conservative comm to see how absolutely rock bottom stupid conservatives are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Whenever I am feeling dumb, I peek in there and cheer myself right up!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The temporarily embarrassed billionaires

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Classifying transpeople as "pornographic"

??

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

What's your question? Have you never seen conservatives scapegoat a minority group before?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I found that confusing too, but I guess it pairs well with

  • Ban all porn
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yep. They want to make it illegal for trans people to exist and don't seem to understand why that would be a problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it's mostly the association/"logic" being literally incomprehensible to someone with even the slightest capacity for reason. Classifying an entire group of people as "pornographic" is just so insanely nonsensical, it's difficult to look at and think of it as anything other than some insane word salad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does being classified as a pornographic person entail

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It means they will be persecuted in various creative ways. More than they are already, I mean. Could be anything from forbidding them from certain places and occupations to rounding them up and putting them in death camps. They're intentionally vague about how far they plan to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The second. DeSantis already is playtesting this in FL by classifying, basically, being LGBT+ in public as "sexual" and making a law where sex offenders against children have the death penalty on the table. Since you're in public, there's a good chance CHILDREN could see you, so...well, you can fill in the rest.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't have to make sense. Just has to fit a narrative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It does make sense though, we've seen anti-trans, gay, abortion etc. conservatives be found out to take part in that very thing they're publicly against so many times, and it'll keep happening. Them wanting to classify trans as pornographic means they see it as that and they like it and hate themselves and transpeople for it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always laugh when they say "ban contraceptives" because I guarantee that the men in congress voting for it have vasectomies. Are they going to reverse them?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

No, those with the means will still continue to get them, whether that's knowing a doctor who will perform it illegally, or by traveling somewhere it's legal. Same as abortion.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ban IVF? why would they ban a safe and correct use of technology to help couples conceive what the actual fuck, I don't think there is a single nation on earth that does this, can you get IVF in the middle east? this is just mind-blowingly neardenthal

[–] knight 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Generally IVF involves fertilizing many eggs and then picking the best performing. Technically this is abortion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Technically this is abortion.

Well no, technically it isn't. But fundies think it is

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As most have noted, the right has no objective, they are just against whatever the left is for.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

They're pretty consistent about cutting taxes for billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do the GOP leadership think this is improvement? Do they push this precisely because it’s terrible - for some reason. I don’t understand the madness.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have the Christofacist nutjobs who want this, the power hungry fucks who want to control others, and the cowards lacking any ethics that don't want to offend the Christofacist nutjobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The christofacists wants to punish people who are not like them? That’s not in accordance with the teachings of Jesus, is it? I find mild amusement in the fact that according to the beliefs of these people, they themselves are probably going to hell…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's true of every fascist regime using religion as an excuse. The Taliban isn't following the teachings of Islam either, just the parts that give them control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you know much about the bible? The Republicans are basically the Pharisees from Jesus' time.

Revelation also predicted that there'd be evil shitheads who claim to be Christian but actually follow the Anti-Christ, but that was an easy prediction, there's always evil shitheads who claim to be good, in any time and religion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The one time Jesus went HAM, chasing religious leaders around their temple with a whip, and whose temple was it? Zeus? Bacchus? Any of those graven-image, many-gods cults? No - he went after his own Father's priests for being money-grubbing hypocrites.

I'm guessing that story doesn't come up often at CPAC or prayer breakfasts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not familiar enough to know details like that. Is “Pharisees as obsessed with man-made rules (especially concerning purity) whereas Jesus is more concerned with God's love; the Pharisees scorn sinners whereas Jesus seeks them out” an ok eli5 and tl;dr summary?

Yeah, I guess man kind is good at evil and shithead, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A key thing with the Pharisees was that they were obsessed with the appearance of being pious, rather than actually being so. Much like many modern Christians who are obsessed with appearing faithful and just, but aren't so concerned with actually following Jesus' teachings

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's about maximum profit and control.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know what I'm always surprised is missing everytime I see this list? Repealing the 14th amendment. They are so wrong on all of it but somehow they don't go for that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They do everything but repeal it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

But that's just it. To the megalomaniacal, psychotic, fascist person id assume the dream of having you own personal household slaves, or factory slaves that you can ln explort and abuse you heartless content would be the creme de la creme of goals.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an outsider I'm fine with all of this for the US, as long as the US is completely demilitarized and gets rid of every last one if their nukes. Can't have hyper-religious christian Nazis start nuclear crusades in the name of the only God that matters to them - The Dollar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's fun to disassociate and dream up fantasy scenarios.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I know, it's as likely as me shiting myself a pair of angel wings.