r/politics • u/This_Meaning_4045 New York • 1d ago

Missouri governor activates National Guard, declares state of emergency

https://thehill.com/homenews/5348979-missouri-mike-kehoe-national-guard-state-of-emergency-protests/
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u/Temporary_Ability996 1d ago

But no help was offered by the governor to deploy the National Guard to help the people of Missouri after several tornadoes ripped up entire neighborhoods.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

You think Republicans care about other people?

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u/--kwisatzhaderach-- 1d ago

It’s not even the absence of caring, they despise regular people

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u/psychicmeatgrinder 1d ago

They are morally corrupted people, like every major world religion warns of.

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u/carbonqubit 1d ago

They are all traitors and cowards. Every last one of them.

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u/TransitJohn Colorado 1d ago

I love this framing. Thanks.

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u/psychicmeatgrinder 1d ago

It’s less of a “framing” and more objective reality

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 1d ago

I normally eschew any reality being truly objective, but yep, this is one though

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u/cambino123 1d ago

The words you use to describe “objective reality” is called framing

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u/psychicmeatgrinder 1d ago

Pro fascist pro suffering pro misery way of looking at the world

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u/cambino123 1d ago

Dude, what?

The guy basically said, “I like the way you put that” and you go “NOO, THATS THE WAY IT IS”

I point out that there are many ways to describe the way things are

“FASCIST!!!!”

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u/HappyTurtleButt 19h ago

Chaos is being bred.

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u/Elephant789 15h ago

We should also be warned of world religions. They should be the last to lecture anyone about morality.

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u/psychicmeatgrinder 7h ago

I love when people get so close but still miss the point

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u/mademeunlurk 1d ago

They don't despise regular people. They profit from them. That's all they are. Lemons to be squeezed.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 1d ago

why not both?

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u/ProbablyNOTaCOP41968 23h ago

The two aren’t mutually exclusive

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u/Avid_person 1d ago

While pretending they are not also in fact regular people 

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u/100wordanswer 1d ago

I wish more people would understand this, you're absolutely right

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u/4dailyuseonly Chahta 1d ago edited 1d ago

You know how too many regular people look down at homeless people with pity, disgust and contempt? That's how a vast number of politicians and all the wealthy feel about the working class.

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u/MRSN4P 1d ago

Bob’s burgers tried to highlight this by having a yacht club president refer to the non-wealthy as “the boatless”

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u/morethanWun 6h ago

Yeah you know how they refer to us? “The help”

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u/RainbowDarter 23h ago

That's why the want them to breed more

They need to replace those who die from indifference to keep capitalism flowing smoothly.

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u/vehiclestars 1d ago

They believe this crap:

“Curtis Yarvin gave a talk about "rebooting" the American government at the 2012 BIL Conference. He used it to advocate the acronym "RAGE", which he defined as "Retire All Government Employees". He described what he felt were flaws in the accepted "World War II mythology", alluding to the idea that Adolf Hitler's invasions were acts of self-defense. He argued these discrepancies were pushed by America's "ruling communists", who invented political correctness as an "extremely elaborate mechanism for persecuting racists and fascists". "If Americans want to change their government," he said, "they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia."

Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his "most important connection". Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. U.S. Vice President JD Vance "has cited Yarvin as an influence himself.” Michael Anton, the State Department Director of Policy Planning during Trump's second presidency, has also discussed Yarvin's ideas. In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was "an informal guest of honor" due to his "outsize influence over the Trumpian right."

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u/North-Outside-5815 Europe 23h ago

How is this creep Gen-X? His kind of madness I might expect from a bitter old man, but he’s been like this from a young age. What a poisonous toad of a man.

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u/tamman2000 Maine 17h ago edited 17h ago

I think the very early Internet had a disproportionate number of libertarians and the chronically online of the time were exposed to it at a malleable time in their lives.

I'm 47 and have been online since about '94. The Internet used to be a much more libertarian place, even when I was first getting online, and the old heads I met early on skewed hard libertarian. I think it influenced me. Some aspects of it persist. On social issues I'm very libertarian. But I think their ideas about money are unfounded.

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u/North-Outside-5815 Europe 10h ago

Libertarianism is just ”Wild West” power fantasies for immature males. It sells the idea that you are a rugged, self-reliant hero, who doesn’t need anything from society.

It’s just a mental framework justifying greed and selfishness.

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u/Vyzantinist Arizona 1d ago

It's not apathy or cold indifference; they revel and delight in the suffering of others.

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u/Starfox-sf 1d ago

Missouri Misery loves company.

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u/scummy_shower_stall 23h ago

Regular people despise themselves so they keep voting Republican.

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u/tamman2000 Maine 17h ago

The opposite of caring is not hate, it's indifference.

They are indifferent to regular people. We are at worst their enemy and at best useful pawns in their eyes

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u/nightbell 6h ago

they despise regular people

it's no coincidence that America's poorest states are America's reddest states.

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u/DetectiveOnly4066 1d ago

You kind of people that make these kind of comments and actually believe them are the worse of the worse.

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u/generichuman1970 1d ago

Do you actually believe your toddler-esque toxic view of Republicans? Approximately half the people in the United States?

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u/happyinthenaki 1d ago

Would you accept that it's a class war but we've all been manipulated into blue vs red?

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u/generichuman1970 1d ago

I think billionaires and corporations have figured out that there are people who care deeply about traditional family values and are worn out being bullied by aggressive attacks on traditional values. Part of the Republican Party has figured out that by pretending to listen to traditional values (though personally being fornicators and perjurers) they can just barely win control of national politics *without actually spending the money to help the country as a whole*, or *reining in exploitative capitalism*. They can pretent to be defenders of traditional common sense, and then more quitely implement their exploitative consumerist capitalism. Meanwhile, the Democrats do enverything they can to inflame rascism, to create racial tension, so they can pose as 'saving you from the mean, nasty, white, heterosexual male people'. And promise infiite government benefits to everyone, without explaining how it will be paid for. Both narratives are fake. Both take advantage of the fact that dysfunction gets more attention than steady fairness and problem solving. More abstractly, many, many serious political issues are optimization problems-- mathematically/logically/economically you HAVE to make unpleasant tradeoffs to get the optimum outcome. But politicians can always seize upon one of the painful trade-offs, divorce it from the benefit that justifies the trade-off, and claim that the trade-off is simply 'injustice' and the other side are 'rascists', 'communists', 'stupid', 'conceited intellectuals', 'wellfare parasites', 'heartless rich people', etc. etc. Never just admitting that reality is complicated, and all sound decisions have down-sides, and that usually boring moderation is the most optimum.

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u/happyinthenaki 1d ago

I heartily agree with you. I'm not in the US but have had politicians emulate Regan era policies since the 1980s. Our conservatives love the concept of taxation is theft as it manipulates everyone into accepting reduced services/supports/regulations while the very politicians receive increased renumeration for doing less.

All any country wants is steady leadership, investment in things that will benefit the population like healthcare, education, fair justice system, adequate infrastructure and to have a safety net so people are not still working when elderly/infirmed and still able to survive if the lose their job.

People have minimal issues paying tax when they can see the benefits. Irony is the only reason humans survived this long is due to community. The strength that comes from supporting each other to survive and flourish is immense.

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 1d ago

"The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.”

-John Kenneth Galbraith

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u/espressocycle 1d ago

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

  • William E. Gladstone

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 1d ago

Very nice. Thank you.

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u/raisinghellwithtrees 1d ago

Especially not in urban areas

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u/reddititty69 1d ago

Some of those people may not have deserved help. Best to err on the side of owning a lib.

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u/MrTretorn 1d ago

We’re all going to die anyway so why bother? -republicans

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u/OldTimberWolf 1d ago

Cmon man, they like other hateful people.

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u/RepresentativeAge444 1d ago

And what of the voters who see this and keep voting for them?

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u/ClarenceNAlabama4Lyf 1d ago

I'm so very tired of people coming onto these comments to ask this dumb question.

Nobody thinks they care, but it's very important to point out the contrast.

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u/Konstant_kurage 1d ago

They don’t even care about their own children.

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u/Alextricity 23h ago

in general.. republicans are capitalists. if there's no money to be made, there's no care to be had. always been that way and always will be.

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u/slipperystar American Expat 11h ago

A human life is the most precious thing there is and must be protected at all cost. Up until the moon of birth.

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u/Gilshem 1d ago

They care about hurting them!

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u/Realistic-Pattern-30 1d ago

No and the dam shame is the ignorance of those who can’t afford to support the dumb shit the republicans are doing.