Do you think you trust the government less than the left?

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  republicans only trust the government when theres a criminal and/or celebrity in charge

  • trump
  • bush jr
  • bush snr
  • reagan

  pewresearch.org/…/public-trust-in-government-1958…

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  • tallwookie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    someone forgot about Lincoln

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• DharmaCurious@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Liberals trust the government. Leftists do not.

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  • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funny, given that the left overwhelmingly wants the government to take more of my money, and take more control over private enterprise.

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    • PizzaMan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the left overwhelmingly wants the government to take more of my money

      This is a sweeping generalization. The way to move forward on budget is to stop wasting so much money on corporate bailout, the military, and to actually fix our shit show of a tax system so that the rich pay their fair share. If we did so, we would have more than enough money to fund the social programs the left wants while decreasing taxes/heathcare costs.

      take more control over private enterprise.

      Corporations have proven themselves unable to self regulate. They poison our land, water, and sky. They pay poverty wages. They pay executives hundreds of times as much as average workers. They hoard their stolen wealth in tax free, offshore accounts. They price gouge and monopolize. They lay off workers without a second thought. They intentionally make commodities and basic necessities scarce to drive up prices. And they do this all while bribing politicians to keep things this way.

      So damn right they need to be controlled better. They can't be trusted to be ethical or sustainable, so they must be regulated.

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• Alterforlett@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m gonna assume you’re American.

  Doubt this is a partisan thing. Have a hard time imagining the left trusting Biden more or less than the right trusting Trump.

  Now “Trumpers” don’t trust the government and when Trump was your president my impression was that “leftist” didn’t trust your government.

  Y’all ain’t special

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The left the lesser of 2 evils. I don’t need rules telling me who to have sex with or what books to read and how much tax cuts they can give the rich. Still waiting on that trickle down. Hungary’s far right push is quite scary.

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  • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was this comment an experiment in optimizing the buzzword to character count ratio?

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  • jimbolauski@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What rules or proposed rules are dictating who you can sleep with or what books to read?

    Your tax break comment makes no sense, more government control is the government seizing less of a person's income? Are you in favor of a flat tax?

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Enjoy!

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• MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Considering the left seems to want the government involved in just about fucking everything, yes

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  • PizzaMan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, because no republican would ever use government power to invade people's privacy.

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    • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Go somewhere else with your incessant spam

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• Dissasterix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Absolutely DO NOT trust my government. Neither do the Leftists, ironically, hence the revolutionary larp.

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