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.

Which government, and trust that government to do what?

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anyways probably I would probably say I trust the US government rn about as much as I trust large for-profit corporations, but in more normal times I trust it more. It really depends on what specifically you're talking about though, since both obviously have their own aspects that they're more or less trustworthy in. Like I would trust Microsoft not to randomly shoot someone much more than the government (Although I would not trust Microsoft to not be helping with AI targeting of people for the military to shoot...), and I would trust reports from the EPA much more than I would trust Microsoft press releases

Generic anti government sentiment is what fuels people like trump and putin. Be careful people, be very careful...

I know very well what I say. I'm a brazilian and our recent history involves attempts from the far rigth to destroy our social order and our democracy to put it into the hands of the usa oligarchs. All that began around 2013 with a wave of anti government propaganda that looked like silly innocent memes...

"Government bad ahahahah. Taxes are theft, better pay for subscriptions instead. Public services will indoctrinate you. Government wants to vaccinate you, vaccines bad hahahaha. I'm very intelligent, you're dumb for trusting your government and not wanting to destroy it with me"

Don't fall for that, people, you're much better than that

Hey comrades, let's all go against democractically elected governments and give the power to corporations and trillionaires. That way, we can take the means of production into the workers' hands for real. Of course we will respect human dignity , rights and freedoms once we take power by force, pinkie promise!

Ever notice how people always talk about antidisestablishmentarianism but never disestablishmentarianism?

What am I looking at (left column)?

Replace "Government" with wealthy people

Don't trust big government, and don't trust any system that forms a tree structure with a single central person at the top.

Truly decentralized small governments (millions of micronations) have the chance to be trustworthy. (They can still be cancerous, but at least they have the chance to not be that.)

the title was a reference to this meme:

Shout out to my close and personal friend, Yotsuba Koiwai

Of course I don't trust the government. I worked for the government for roughly 12 years. They will fuck you over happily.

Huh the old gif worked fine but the new one shows as a static image in Summit