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    You know, I tough it might be good to fact-check this screenshot. It might be missrepresenting something. So I did a little digging and it turns out that this is based on a document provided by the Republican Study Committee (about three quateres of house rebuplicans are members).

    I read the Dokument document (you can find it here) and HOLY HELL THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE READ IN A LONG WHILE.

    It’s so full of lies, half-truths and so, so, so much finger pointing to the “woke socialist Biden Administration” (yes, that is a quote), so removed from reality… It was painfull to read. There is so much utter nonsense in that one document.

    Anyhow. The headline is dead on. And it’s far far from the worst thing that they are proposing.

    I need to bang my head against a wall now untill i have erased the memory of reading this bullshit.

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      It’s all about elimination of all federal regulations:

      Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) Article I Restoration Act, which would sunset all regulations after 3 years.

      Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]

      Fucking dinosaurs don’t realize that they haven’t even printed a yellow pages in around a decade. Last time I received one it was like 30 pages long for a major city.

      Talk about pandering to their elderly base. Most Gen Z probably don’t even know what a “yellow pages” is.

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        Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]

        That is the dumbest idea I’ve heard today

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          Yes, specifically the business phone book. The residential one was the “white pages” -a weird book that was mysteriously left on your porch every few years where everyone’s home phone (those strange bulky ones that were attached to the wall) and home address was listed. That’s what people mean in old movies when they say “I’m in the book!” It means “You know my name, you can find my phone number if you want to call me.”

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              You could get your number “unlisted” for an additional fee. It was still dangerous in the pre-internet age, just not to the extent that it is today.

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            I think we got one every year actually at my old rental house. We would get a white and yellow pages. Strangely, yellow pages would shrink every year until around 2012 it was about 30 pages long.

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              You had to pay to be in the yellow pages, so as googling stuff became the main way to find anything, businesses that weren’t mainly patronized by old people started opting out.

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        Play them at their own game by listing a child starving service in the Yellow Pages.

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          BRB, going to start my own CIA and undercut the original by outsourcing the majority of the work to Bangalore for cheap labour.

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        The yellow pages test comes from a dead libertarian Austrian “Economist”. Kinda interesting since he died in 1995 and the school of economics he followed was already obsolete when it came out in the 1930s.

        This stuff is part of the reason why age does matter in elected office. People get ideas and they don’t let them go even long after they have been disproven.

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      Because of the similarities between Republicans and the UK Conservative party, I am 100% convinced this is a collaborated narrative. They have collectively decided on which levers to pull and push because of data they have at hand. Some people have no moral compass at all when it comes to making money. And let’s face it, this is purely about backhanders and donation funding.

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          https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-uk-2023/about/ is the main link imo. Phil Moorhouse said in one of his videos that this is heavily funded by the Republican party. I cannot find that video though. I also cannot find a link with these and Murdoch. It very much looks like the UK Tories are copying the Republicans. The way they have abused the UK is no where near as bad as the stunts of the Republicans over there.

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            Brexit is by far one of the worst political stunts inflicted upon the UK I could possibly imagine. Losing the right to live and work in an entire continent worth of cultures and economies – sure, here in the US has a problem with guns, women as equals, “God and Country” white nationalism in every mega church across the nation, and American Exceptionalism, etc., but Brexit is a whole other level of stupidity.

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              Yeah, Britain had a lot of exceptions as founder country and they decided to loose them.

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      But that is exactly what they are counting on. We need more angry informed people instead of the angry idiots that lap this up because “woke is bad” but can’t explain what woke is. Woke = anything you disagree with.

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      Hmm. They want to protect social security for seniors… Isn’t that just like socialism but with extra steps?

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      I understand discouraging it, as the free school lunches were shit and are shit that is barely edible, but banning it seems wrong. There are some places where there are kids who will eat the disgusting whatever it is they pulled from the dumpster behind the school, but I don’t think most people would want to. But also from the quotes you provided, I doubt it’s about that…

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        I was one of the kids that received free lunch at school growing up. No, it wasn’t my favorite food but it was a meal that I would not have had otherwise. It was free lunch or no lunch due to no fault of my own. I preferred to eat something rather than starve.

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        The solution is to this issue is more money from school free lunch. Starve the beast is a well known political tactic.

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        I thought that something like 40% of kids are in low income families who can’t afford lunch. Is that still the case?

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      In case you are unaware, you weaken anything you want to say by purposely changing the spelling of words. It panders to those who are like minded, while pushing away those people on the fence you want to convince.

      Four words into your second paragraph is where a lot of people will stop reading.

      Something to keep in mind if you want to make an impact.

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        I am German. Auto correct changing “document” to “Dokument” (the German Word) happens easily on a phone set to German and honestly just didn’t jump at me as wrong. After all it’s how I am used to read the word.

        But I am honestly curious. How does a misspelled word pander to those that are like minded? Does “Dokument” have any meaning in English that I as a not nativ speaker am not aware of?

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        You do also know that in addition to German words being similar, other languages have similar words, right? And maybe they use the spelling they are familiar or maybe their auto correct choose the spelling in their native language. This comment is ridiculous and assumes that first off, everyone speaks English, and second, everyone speaks it perfectly.