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I promise the Republican Party (feddit.org)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

The biggest danger to US democracy is not Donald Trump or the Project 2025 christofascists, it's the crushing ignorance of the US population. The gutting of the public education system means that many if not most Americans don't understand that, "fascist" isn't just a name like, "poopie head" that you call someone. It has a definition and clearly defined policies/behaviours that closely align with Trump/Vance/Johnston and their enablers. Communist and Marxist are very clearly defined things. Harris/Walz are pro business which means they are definitely NOT communists or Marxists.

If the US population were better educated and more knowledgable they would dump these Retrumplican clowns and rebuild the Republican party from scratch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It intentional semantic drift and has been happening for a very long time. They erode harsh terms with hyperbole and make normal positions seem extreme by stereotype and strawman. That's why I prefer specifying that I'm Mutualist rather than explain how the terms socialist/capitalist have drifted out of dichotomy or how the term anarchist and libertarian have become parodies of themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago) (1 children)

Modern Libertariansm is ridiculous. Libertarianism is far better aligned with socialism (where the people do the work and most of the the benefit stays with the people) than it is with either communism (where the people do the work and most of the benefit goes to the government/plutocrats) or capitalism (where the people do the work and most of the benefit goes to the wealthy/oligarchs.) Modern Libertarians are extremist right wing capitalist stooges.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Your definition of communism further proves the earlier point about semantic drift. All of these terms are problematic because of their histories in the past 200 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

That is not a definition of communism. It is a reduction based on the definition. It is also perfectly representative of every modern communist regime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's a reduction based on the history of regimes that call themselves communist... You don't see a problem here? Maybe I'm just being pedantic but Marxian communism doesn't have anything in common with any form of government in history. It's more of an idealized state (state meaning condition, not polity). Nobody, apart from so-called primitive communist societies, can claim to be communist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

... I'm just being pedantic ...

And trying to derail the conversation by distracting from my point which was that modern libertarians are extremist right wing capitalist stooges.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Close y'all are almost as bad as Republicans but not quite. It's still hella embarrassing to be associated with the democrats though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, the larval stage of fascism at least pretends to care about human rights, even if they're not great about actually doing anything about them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Communists just think you are a little bit thick and/or uneducated. Maybe a little bit cute. Like a child who doesn't know what words mean.

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