• Mirshe@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    This is common and a literal conservative tactic called “starving the beast”. You strangle off funding to a thing you wanna cut, wait a couple months for the service to go to shit because they have to realign to compensate for having no money, and then go “wow look this sucks, better just kill it”.

    Reagan did it in the 80s.

    • Soggy@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      The “beast” in their narrative is “money going to poor people instead of me and my friends” lest you think any shred of what they do is defensible.