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We tax the billionaires and pay professionals to do it.

They sprout up like weeds. We’re right back to the same fights we fought in the sixties and thought we’d FINALLY WON.. for a very brief time. I hope today there are FEWER racist pukes in America, but they definitely have not “gone away.” Very sad

Why those people? A minority subset of the 78m who voted for Trump in 2024? That was *before* Trump's approval rating fell to 30%. Wouldn't it be more productive to engage with the 90m not voting party instead?

I don't talk to fascists. So I'm not going to be calling them stupid directly. You can try, but you'll never get anywhere. Because stupid needs to fix itself.

The ignorance is wilful, and what they name themselves doesn't matter. The ignorance will be wilful there as well. The fix is to tax billionaires and promote education.

stupid doesn't have a cure. ignorance does.

COMMUNISM ! ! ! The #MAGA Boogey Man

Or even just Google it. It's 2026 😩

You need to get engaged or the narrative will be controlled by the greedy, and our families will continue to suffer.

Expecting folks who don't understand the difference to try to learn about it is like expecting the Pope to support aborton. By definition, 50% of the population is below average intelligence.

We love socialism when it means we have medical + emergency services a 📞 call away, roads, power, water, a standing military etc. there is no reason this should not include housing, healthcare and education.

Let’s just hope those with whom we do not want to engage, know the difference at the polls.

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I second this motion

They’ve been doing it since 1945.

It's more of "flood the zone" by the far right extremist so people will not look at all their blatent corruption.

I’m not saying there aren’t people that believe in communism in this country. But it’s a small minority. Less then 000.1%z. Yes, they are very radical.

Please show liberals using the word communist.

Remember the woman who called Obama a communist? She had no idea what communism is. Take a look at this video, 'woman calls obama a communist' share.google/SDqwm6gPUmM5...

You right that they weaponize the word communist knowing their people won't check the difference. Period.

More specifically, forms of democratic socialism have taken over much of the world, to the extent of governments providing financial coverage for education, medicare, assistance with housing, & other benefits. They differ, but there should be a general term for forms of government that provide them.

There never was true communism IMO. Didn't marx say something along the lines that it would only show up in a post industrial society? Basically how I see it was that it was used by insane despots to take advantage of the vulnerable masses 🤷 capitalism will give birth to communism through abundance

maga: what's a book? And why do you have to crack it?

Avila Chevalier seems not to make this distinction, or she's on the wrong side of it.

Something our two countries have in common. Russia describes itself as a "Federal Republic" a Constitutional Republic and their flag colors are also Red, White and Blue. North Korea is the DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES RREPUBLIC of Korea "YOU DONT SEE RUHPUBLIC IN ENGLANDS TITLE, OR NORWAY, OR FRANCE... Hyuk

Throw in the war on drugs, and the war on terror, and it's a busy time of year.

Socialism is as close to communism as it is to capitalism. Might as well call Democratic Socialism capitalism at that point. And the Democratic part is vital, as each economic system as MANY varieties. I’d be against Stalinism and National Socialism, just as I am against Oligarchical capitalism.

Ya think they actually read books?

No kidding, right?! Ignorance kills. I can't understand why people willfully neglect to educate themselves. I love to read, so I guess I'm biased, but really folks, it just makes life better. I have a wide skill set, and the majority has come from books. Reading really is fundamental.

A Book will explain the difference is in the Spelling.

That is the exact problem. People are NOT educated.

tRump claims he hates communism (and democratic socialism for that matter), but he apparently loves what formerly communist Russia has become: a completely corrupt oligarchy with a war-mongering, egotistical president-for-life at its head. tRump seems hellbent on copying that model here in the US.

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It seems like the less people actually know, the more vocal they are. It's as if being loud makes you right.

I’m just going to review what Socialism is… Republicans have maligned it for years and used it as a ‘scare’ word. How unfortunate that a segment of society didn’t ‘think’ to investigate the truth.

Honestly, I wonder if it would be easier to tell them to ask AI now 😂

And, if you really care about it while the corruption grows every second…

The only thing I have for any of these reich wing klowns is a middle finger. Two if they're hard of hearing.

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What they saw and feared as communism was actually an authoritarian dictatorship.

Or there's this excellent little diddy from Heather Cox Richardson. 👇 "We have to get some of our terms under control..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nt2...

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Listen, communism isn't a swear word. It's not a bad ideology. Cold war propaganda worked extremely well on people.

Representations of a spectrum of ideologies opposed to that which requires a willingness to form a worldview from the P.O.V. of an 80 year old pedo's rectum recently redefined as such by those who are willing and are critical of both those on the "umm, no" and the "fack no" ends of that spectrum.

Or just give it a Google search. The definitions are literally clicks away.

Exactly. We should have some Pareto standard number to limit inequality. Like, 2000 x medium household wealth, putting it at 100 million.

Wow, I disagree with all three of those statements.

too simplistic explanation. Rich is relative, you wont see trillionaires or Billionaires in Democratic socialism. The gap between the rich and working class is smaller under DS than in pure capitalism

Or there is that Google thing.

I did. The goal of socialism is communism. Vladimir Lenin

He doesn’t read

You can't fix stupid.

Well then you can dismiss all Americans- pretty much

Agreed, except ... if Chump et al keep saying it and there's no counter-narrative - too many of those who don't know/won’t look it up will accept it (anf already are)! 😑

You cannot reform capitalism! Capitalism uses white supremacy to divide the working class. The existence of LGBTQIA+ people threatens gender roles which white supremacy requires to operate. Liberals structurally support everything they think they're against.

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Russians take everything,,, give the people nothing,, pocket all the money creating an oligarchy. Socialism is having police, fire, schools and transportation all come out of our tax pool for things we may need and may use.. Pretty significant difference I’d say..

Exactly the correct response! And don't I live "crack a book"!!!

Here's how: democracy or not? Your choice. Done. If that doesn't work say: DSA membership: 100k Democrats: 45m All we have to fear is fear itself.

“Communism” is a term the Trump party uses to keep themselves stirred up and scared silly. It works. 🤨

Socialist Reconstruction is another great book to add to that list.

Hafta agree with you.

Trump is a simpleton that survives by using specific buzzwords that MAGA bristles at. Communism, Benghazi, Afghanistan, the Wall, Hillary, Hunter, Dumocrats, etc. All childish, all infantile, all non-descriptive. All Trump.

Good old Donnie, trying to scare is unknowing followers.

Because Ds are controlled opposition. The two work together to control the narrative. They've got everyone terrified of communism, and either terrified of socialism or convinced it means capitalism but with some public services. They've squeezed anti-capitalism out of the conversation on both sides!

The DSA has caucuses that are aligned with various communist parties. While far from all DSA members are communists, some of them are and that's why the party's founder left the party. Failing to acknowledge that is disingenuous.

I don’t know the difference between Democratic socialism and communism

Hell, ask Chat GPT! It’s a quick explanation!

It’s not about knowing the difference, it’s about marketing and messaging. The Democrats are on the fast track to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

DSA has communist caucuses, tho Granted, Democratic Socialism and DSA are not the same and the national DSA has variances from local chapters bsky.app/profile/n1gh...

How about every democrat start punching against this fear attack. I’m tired of never seeing a democrat become angry and defiant against all this rhetoric. Get in front of the attack, speak up, deny it, call it what it is - fear mongering!! We should all call members and demand action!

WTF?

They don't support any of these things, dumbass

Let’s look at 2009. Dems have the house, senate and presidency. It’s their shot to get the health care system fixed for good. They fall short of a public option, make some needed changes to our system but end up with a huuuuge giveaway to insurance companies. Billions on top of billions.

it's the money in politics, it's not about ideology, discussing ideology is a distraction, while the supreme court pours more money into politics.

Someone ASK Trump…he has no clue!!

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More like we need to crack a book upside someone head, these fools are hopeless.

Doubt tRump will make it till the end of his term (crossing fingers he don't), but the MAGA will drive on... and it's a cancer that they have already infiltered into all fed agencies, the military ranks, many judicial courts and benches and certainly filled up in the republican sides of Congress.

Communism as an idea is "bad" as in to function it needs everybody to believe in it and act accordingly. That's not how people are. Many people act against their own interests constantly and many people want power because power, not to better a society. You can't educate away such behaviour.

They dont even use thier own religious text for a source of morals. They seem determined to do the opposite of Jesus at all times.

seriously

Now that being said, I don't see why we can't take some elements of Dem Socialism to strengthen the systems we have. We're gonna need some regulating after the mess Trump has made. Oh well off to work.

Same for national socialism vs socialism.

Most Americans can’t read

I know right, there isn’t much. You just get to vote to loot your neighbors

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Rather, communism in its original sense is closely aligned with the idea of democratic socialism.

If you explain the difference to him in pictorial one page format. Pie charts desirably. Maybe.