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DeSantis ‘freedom fund’ Pac targets abortion and marijuana ballot initiatives
(www.theguardian.com)
The irony of "freedom" fund used to suppress freedom.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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From the man who ran the "Never Back Down" campaign and was nearly the first to do so...
Ive noticed that almost every "freedom", or "patriot", named thing related to politics do just the opposite
It's definitely freedom. Freedom for Conservatives to tell everyone what they can and can't do in their own homes.
Same with "War on Drugs" or "War on Terror". I would like to congratulate both Drugs and Terror for their victories. I bet if they declared a War on Housing the homeless population in the US would plummet.
Came in to say exactly that... The Irony is thick, and likely unfortunately lost on people that will approve it.
This just in: DeSantis is changing the official words prisons and jails to Freedom Centers. Their slogan is "Where Freedom meets people"
As we all know, legal weed is super unpopular and every ballot initiative to legalize it fails because of that and Republicans never have to do any sort of legal tricks to cancel that out, so this will work for sure.
I love seeing them waste money on shit that is only going to drive turnout against them.
"freedom" here is 100% orwellian
I was thinking the same thing.
The problem is that honest names, like repression fund or authoritarianism fund, don't score well in marketing research.
Don’t understand why it’s legal to make a PAC and have your chief of staff head it.
To be fair I don’t understand why PACs are legal at all, but whatever.
So much freedom.
Let’s see the mental gymnastics on this one, because I know quite a few hardcore republicans that loooove themselves some weed.
Let’s see the mental gymnastics on this one, because I know quite a few hardcore republicans that loooove themselves some weed.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit
So those hardcore week smoking republicans want to be in the first group, and want everyone else to be in the second. If weed was legal it would collapse both into a single group. Republicans don't want that.
The irony of this.
Its nice to know that rule about republican names holds true. If it has freedom in its name. It is trying to take freedoms away from someone they don't like.
For fucks sake ron
A small man screaming "I'm still relevant!" as the doors begin to close on him