Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They’ve always been hypocrites, and they always will be. Trump hasn’t changed this, he just knew how to manipulate it for his own personal gain.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 32 points 1 day ago

Yeah, "limited government" has never been true. They always favoured big government when it comes to interventions in people's personal lives, including medical decisions, marriage, and what substances you can imbibe. They've never cared for reducing the debt, except when Democrats were in charge of it. Law and order & justice have always been a "do as I say, not as I do" type situation. It's that classic quote:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Trump has amped this up to 11, but it's always been the main defining feature of the Republican party (at least during my lifetime).