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I'm mad. Please put in the newspaper that I'm mad.

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The positions that get demonized as "socialist" and "radical" here are THE MAINSTREAM. Mamdani is not even leftist ENOUGH for broad MAJORITIES of Americans across party lines. But it falls to us all to constantly make that clear because of media #Gleichschaltung. Thread. bsky.app/profile/idio...

Idiokratie@idiokratie.bsky.social

What Americans actually want, aka #mainstream policies: The right to #abortion [85%, Gallup 2024] Equal pay for #women. [77%, Pew Research, 2023] Stronger protection of the #environment [74%, Gallup, 2018] Legalized #cannabis [88%, Pew, 2023]

Socialism does seek public control of all productive property. Social Democracy is fine with private property, with public provision where superior and regulation for public benefit. Democratic Socialism aims for socialism through ballot box. Communism accepts revolution for a socialist state.

That graphic is wrong. Under communism there is still personal property. Private property is the means of production. The difference from socialism is that communism seeks a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Socialism can retain the state and money, though not all versions seek to.

Right, but the amount of personal property one is allowed to own is limited by the communist state. In some cases, housing is state owned for example, even though a home could be considered personal property as it is for personal use and not a means of production.

That ignorance is hardly unique to Americans. We just happen to have shameless propaganda outlets masquerading as news who happily spout authoritarian talking points. If you can blur people's language, you can blur their thinking so they're incapable of seeing the difference.

You can’t tell me a desiccated corpselike finger hasn’t been hovering over the print button on this front page for the past six months. But sure, they just riffed this. Lol

You’d think a MAGA-leaning newspaper would be happy that an alleged (according to the NY Post) communist won for NYC mayor, because MAGA (to be honest) is pro-Russian, based on Trump’s relationship with the Russians.

So just to make sure I’m clear… Socialism: A pilot of 5 co-op grocery stores Capitalism: Seizing 10% of one US-based manufacturer, taking a rake on the largest public company in the world’s profits, and divvying up a privately held social network to your donors at an absurdly deflated valuation.

That's deliberate. The right has been polluting the language by repeating the idea that the two are synonymous for decades. Simplify language and you control people's ability to see important nuance or think deeply. Tell them the thing you oppose is the same as a thing that they hate and you've won.

DBdant@dbdant.bsky.social

My best friend told me: "I had heard Mamdani was a Socialist. Then I listened to him in an interview. That's when I realized, 'Damn, I'm a Socialist, too'. Who knew?"

NY citizens, don’t go back to your lives now that Zohran won the election. While in office is when he will need a mobilized base to stand up to all the sabotage he will for sure endure.

I can't understand how this kind of Hitlerian paper hanging is shown in a "newspaper". This is blatant lying. This is unashamed fancy blue bullshit. How can employees at this "newspaper" call themselves journalists? In my town, these clowns would have their pencils and crayons taken away.

Comrade Trump is the actual communist. Seriously all of the Netherlands are socialist and our allies. How do they not know what socialism is at this point? Oh wait they do, and this is all nonsense propaganda to install even more fear into MAGA.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“Seizing the means of production,” you say? 🤡 (via @samsteindc.bsky.social)

WARNING! CONSERVATIVES WILL BE CLUTCHING THEIR PEARLS HARD FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. PS Sorry late Richard Simmons, but your dramatic expression pretty much mimics how they are reacting

the yaed apple? if they wanted to actually evoke something from Communist Russia, just call it The New November Revolution, considering the November Revolution in Russia happened 98 years ago, almost to the day.