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Meanwhile, the socialists and communists
Watching both Liberals and fascists (“conservatives”) demonstrate extreme propaganda-induced mental illness.
“We will defeat fascism by electing another corporate-whore neoliberal in 2028” — the delusional, already living in a fascist dictatorship.
It’s like they’re socialists, but they’re also nationalists. Like some kind of National socialist… 🤔
JFC, this is the first I’m hearing about Harris calling trump a communist. Get your shit together, Kamala. This shit just makes you look as stupid as he is.
I think a lot of the problem is a lot of people, even a majority, aren’t sure what a lot of those terms even mean. I’m not sure the people saying it know what it means.
And I’m one of them, I’m not entirely sure what a socialist is or isn’t, but I know it’s an insult that the far left and the far right use.
It’s jargon, and people are just baffled by it.
Except for Harris calling Trump a communist, that’s just plain stupidity.
but I know it’s an insult that the far left and the far right use.
What “far left” uses socialist as an insult?
Except for Harris calling Trump a communist, that’s just plain stupidity.
Not really. If you use Hayek’s term for socialism, which is synonymous with totalitarianism and command economy, it fits. The entire Austrian school of thought would define (if they were honest) Trump as communist. From that perspective: communist, socialist, fascist, totalitarian are distinctions without a difference.
Americans are lazy and opt to think in buzzwords and slogans for the most part. To the right, Communist means bad, so you call bad people communist.
Many free-market economists and business leaders who have long worshipped the free-market ideals of Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, Ayn Rand, and Milton Friedman should be aware that their idols would be rolling in their graves right now, as rather than pursue standard laissez-faire conservative economic policies, MAGA has gone Marxist and even, increasingly, Maoist.
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/magas-march-toward-command-economy
We must here return for a moment to the position which precedes the suppression of democratic institutions and the creation of a totalitariam regime. In this stage it is the general demand for quick and determined government action that is the dominating element in the situation, dissatisfaction with the slow and cumbersome course of democratic procedure which makes action for action’s sake the goal. It is then the man or the party who seems strong and resolute enough “to get things done” who exercises the greatest appeal. “Strong” in this sense means not merely a numerical majority — it is the ineffectiveness of parliamentary majorities with which people are dissatisfied. What they will seek is somebody with such solid support as to inspire confidence that he can carry out whatever he wants. It is here that the new type of party, organized on military lines, comes in.
The Road to Serfdom, Hayek.
I should add, the right generally has a vague, emotional, derogatory meaning to those terms (communist, socialist, marxist etc), so using those terms on them can short circuit their programming.
Harris’ dad is an actual communist, IIRC. Maybe she’s just mad at him.
Or she’s using GOP scare tactics against them as obviously there’s little difference between “communist” dictators and most authoritarians.
This is absolutely it, the harris and Newsom quotes are tongue-in-cheek
Pete Buttgieg’s dad was also a communist and founder of the Gramsci society. Even based people aren’t immune to raising liberal ghouls 😔
watch it people here in the United States get really ruffled when call out the fact that both side are virtually indistinguishable from one another
when you add facts to the mix Democrats and Republicans both start going apeshit about how its not real or the other side did it or it is their own fellow citizens who are crazy
Does it taste bad every time or have you gotten used to the bullshit spilling out of your mouth?
seeing facts ruffle you much? must be a democrat or republican
“Two things are bad. Therefore, there is zero difference between them” -The Enlightened Centrist
Two different sides of the same coin both relying on the central core wealth of funds that holds both parties together as a whole
When have Democrats or Republicans proven otherwise? We could have the living wages, universal healthcare, etcetera the Democrats are always on about but they are always thwarted by Republicans/low turnout/other voters.
How many votes does a voter have to cast for things to change or to show the parties are not benefitting the citizens and a charge is needed?
You sound like one of those people who helped get Trump elected so I’m really not interested in a lecture, nor will I be addressing your questions.
Things are going great in this country thanks in no small part to people like you
You sound like one of those people who helped get Trump elected.
America is literally a dumpster-fire, it is not going great.
Sarcasm, fella. I voted against Trump despite all the non-voters suggesting I follow them. Nice try though
