A Gallery of Trump-Inspired Assholes (Part 3)

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Keep it coming, Georgie Boy.

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Congressional GOP, that is.

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Aw, someone misses the spotlight! :rofl:

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But inside, you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/politics/tommy-tuberville-releases-holds/index.html

What lands this a place in the Assholes thread rather than a more positive one is the last paragraph:

Asked what his message was to military families who have been affected by his holds, Tuberville responded, “Thank you for your service.”

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Strange that capitalists would want to destroy the public education system. (Except for the ones that sell private education, naturally.)

I mean, if you’re trying to staff a company, you want to draw from the largest pool of university-educated candidates as possible. If the pool is only the sons of the elite, (a) it’s going to be missing good people who never had the chance to compete, (b) scarcity is going to drive up the price, and you’ll pay through the nose. Plus, they’ll want that premium so that they can send their kids to university.

As usual, these “capitalists” are really bums and freeloaders that don’t want pay the taxes that keep the system, that they benefit from, going.

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I’m getting closer and closer to the opinion that the logical end-game of the description of what Libertarians really are as “anarchists who want police protection from their slaves” is approaching “Spartans”.

In that they don’t want slaves, because chattel slaves are property, and property has to be maintained to be useful. What they want is a two class society: them as Spartans, and everyone else as Helots. You don’t want a slave to own, you want an entire class of interchangeable slaves: hotswappable when one breaks. Naturally this would require a force to keep the helots in their place: the Spartans did this themselves. Like, keeping the helots in their place was the Spartans’ one job, and warfare was just a way of keeping in shape for it. That all seems like too much work, so the logical step is to implement a caste system where the police, while not being Spartans, are a privileged class and it’s their job to keep the helots in line. Kapos on a societal level, if you will.

They don’t want a Feudal system, because that implies a complex web of responsibilities in both directions. Basically, they would like a Feudal system, except that peasants had rights. Actually … maybe the Enclosure of the Commons Georgian period is a better exemplar. But even there commoners had rights, so…

I find it increasingly disturbing how much this model describes.

What they want is Sparta, only instead of them being rigid disciplined Spartans (like they keep pretending they are), they’re sybarites and hedonists, supported on a sea of interchangeable helots, a selection of which is tasked with keeping the others in line. If some subset of helots are, for example, allowed to get an education sufficient to train the next generation of Pseudo-Spartans, then that’s for the Pseudo-Spartans’ benefit, not their own. If some are allowed to become engineers and technicians to keep the Pseudo-Spartans’ technology running, same. If some are allowed to become doctors to keep the Pseudo-Spartans alive and beautiful for as long as possible, same. And they don’t care about any individual of them: helots are plug-and-play, interchangeable indistinguishable parts, otherwise what good are they?

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And the non-rich libertarians who think that they’ll be allowed in the gates of Imperial Galt-Gilead. Suckers.

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They’ll make the best kapo-helots, because they’ll keep believing that if they’re good and successful enough, that they’ll be allowed to stop being helots. They’ll never realise that even if they do earn cookies, they’ll just be a slightly more privileged rank of helot.

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Sparta had a very special reward for helots who earned distinction! :dagger:

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Best not to learn their names. You don’t want to get attached.

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Add supply and demand in the labour market to the long list of concepts that EmptyG doesn’t understand.

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The premise that women exist in America primarily to be livestock, birthing and nurturing a steady supply of future workers to be tossed into our economic grinders and be spit back out as corporate profit reports, appears to be growing again after years of being beaten back.

They are saying the quiet part out loud again. If only the media would get on the ball and report what they are actually saying! (See also Il Douche “I will be a dictator on day 1”)

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