• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    There’s an entire episode where he’s on record of “slashing the budget with a machete” but in that same episode sacrificing his job to save Leslie.

    That pretty much captures the Republican ideal in a nutshell: Think that the world is simple and have no empathy for the other side, until it personally affects them and suddenly they are for gay rights, or trans rights, or unemployment, or Social Security, or whatever is being debated.

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      9 hours ago

      More often it’s them thinking that they, and the once they care about,should be exempt from the heinous rules they support. Because they are just good people in a bad situation.

      They don’t think that the actual rules should be changed.