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the title was a reference to this meme:
(except it said 41kb, I can’t find that version for some reason)
EDIT: shoutout to @AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world for making a version of the gif that’s actually 41kb
EDIT 2: it wasn’t loading for some people so I changed it back, womp womp :(
This rhetoric was used most notably by Reagan to dismantle the Community Services Administration, he argued the government couldn’t be trusted to tackle poverty.
Governments aren’t a single body; they’re a sum of the people you add to them. The people within them all have their own levers of power and things they wish to enact. When the government does something bad, do not shrug and say, “Well, of course the government did something bad,” take names, primary them out. Anything but blind cynicism.
And see: the Iron Law of Institutions. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_institutions
Nazi/Maga fallacy
How so? Most governments around the world are a collection of many independent bodies which have their own interests and powers, which is why people usually call a government “the bueraucracy”, since it’s a clunky machine instead of the single unified command structure like how the media portrays it.
Don’t waste your time replying to NotAnOtter. If someone slings mud without taking a stance, they aren’t looking to debate, they’re looking to bicker. Good points, though.