Socialism is a buzzword that has been used in the US to attack anything remotely progressive that’s happened in the last century.
When Social Security and the New Deal programs were introduced, they were called socialism
When the voting age was lowered to 18, it was called socialism
When the FMLA was passed, it was called socialism.
It’s literally just a word that Republicans who don’t want to support our communities use instead of just flat out admitting that they’re anti human
It’s literally just a word that Republicans who don’t want to support our communities use instead of just flat out admitting that they’re anti human
Let’s not pretend it’s just republicans.
Any sources on this? I’d like to share with some relatives.
Edit : I wanted some more ammo for Thanksgiving coming up, so thank you for the help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Criticism
In 1934, Roosevelt defended himself against those critics in a “fireside chat”:
[Some] will try to give you new and strange names for what we are doing. Sometimes they will call it ‘Fascism’, sometimes ‘Communism’, sometimes ‘Regimentation’, sometimes ‘Socialism’. But, in so doing, they are trying to make very complex and theoretical something that is really very simple and very practical… Plausible self-seekers and theoretical die-hards will tell you of the loss of individual liberty. Answer this question out of the facts of your own life. Have you lost any of your rights or liberty or constitutional freedom of action and choice?[279]
At the same time, there was an actual (failed) attempt at a fascist coup on Roosevelt’s watch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch[1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.
So, yeah. Fascists hate this stuff and will do anything to fight it, from name-calling to revolution.
Thanks, much appreciated!
History? You can watch a new conservative calling anything the government does to help people socialism every day.
It’s funny how they’re trying to paint him as a communist revolutionary or something, and in the process, just making him look even cooler.
Ehem, as the kids say
“Cope and seethe”
Gay, trans socialist hellscape > straight, cis, capitalist hellscape
Socialist Hellscape
Poor people riding the bus
riding the gay bus
Don’t forget the important details.
Oh, is that where the word bussy comes from.
/s
How dare they ride a bus.
They should be walking, so it is easier for me to ride them over while laughing. /s
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The angry one just vibrates in the original post. I have seen this artist use animations in one panel like this one, mind you it’s a reddit link.
Yeesh, I don’t miss reddit at all. Those comments could all be bots and it wouldn’t make a difference. Everyone just posts whatever joke they thought was funny 2+ years ago.
That’s what she said! AhAhaHahAhAhaHaHa~
I bet that feels nice
Oh, they can post images in the comments too now.
Took her 12 seconds to process that response.
same energy
I feel like they’re jealous inside haha
I just don’t understand why they would care so much about what’s happening in a blue state far away from them. It’s like the very idea of someone else living a peaceful happy life sends them into a rage-fueled, spiteful wrath
That oddly fitting comment below.
If those people knew anything about Communism and Islam they’d realize how utterly stupid that combo is…
…what? All three Abrahamic religions are extremely explicit and clear about providing food and shelter to the poor and needy. What counterexample did you have in mind?
since when was “providing food and shelter to the poor and needy” considered to be exclusively communist?
Around the time that those in power claiming to be of the faith started calling it communism.
it’s unfortunate that the guy in charge is buddies with the rockets guy. at least he’s still stuck on his spruce moose
“Hop in!”
Reagan
Everything wrong with the US is basically just a game of 6 degrees from Ronald Reagan.
It certainly isn’t capitalist.
amen.
There is no equality in those religions. Man and woman wasnt equal and slavery existed in those times…
I think it’s more the fact that communism in it’s real world manifestations is all about control, and they can’t have competing organized religion, unless they pervert into some state converted version.
“communism” IRL is more like vanguardist fascist dictatorships under leftist aesthetics.
I lived in one of these “communist” countries, its actually just a state capitalist hell, practially zero social safety net, zero free busses, zero free childcare, zero free lunch, internal border control, a very “papers please” environment, just more government oppression.
Reason why these failed is bexause of the lack of democracy, the vanguardism has failed it.
Mamdani is not a “communist”, he is a Democratic Socialist, he believes in democracy. We have already seen success with “socialist” policies when they get implemented under a democratic system such as in Norway, for example.
I commend you for having balanced views despite living under “communism”, and being unlike the cuban migrants that see anything slightly left of center and turn into the flashback cupcake dog.
What they preach is not the same as what they do. None of them. It’s a psychological thing.
These people just interchange socialism and communism like they’re the same thing.
And they have absolutely no idea what either mean.
Because they are. The end goal of socialism is a communist society.
The issue is that fools think that’s a bad thing.
in communism, socialism is a middle step. but in socialism, socialism is just socialism. it doesn’t have to be communist
The alternative to communism is starvation when no one can a job because of automation.
Tbf if you ever lived in North Iraq you would see how much left-leaning average religious Kurd is.
If we stopped invading the region for oil and all it would stabilize and then progress over time.
man daddy
Hell yea
she really said “:3”
See, that’s the thing.
People just don’t seem to realize how important my opinion is. I did, like, research and stuff!
It already has more gay and trans people than any other city in the US by numbers. Now they just need some socialism!
I was gonna say, so it’ll be about the same, but socialist? Right on!
FULLY
AUTOMATED
LUXURY
GAY
SPACE
COMMUNISM!
ŜPÅČĘ
𝕃𝔸𝕊𝔼ℝ𝕊
Lesbians?
An alternative that tracks
COMMUNISM
SPAAAAACE
Look im not gay but if comes with healthcare im willing to try.
Talking seriously, from a “centrist” point of view, worrying about that a “gay trans sociallist hellscape” makes no sense seeing how easy is for the right to get to power no matter how crazy it seems.
Why is a comic strip 12 seconds long?
No one wants to read a 15 second comic strip.
Did you even attempt to visit the source?
Obviously not
It’s a gif where in the last panel the angry bigot shakes a lot.
Thanks
I think these people turn red usually in less than 12 seconds.
Nice work, y’all. You pissed off the cons
Now, let’s get them and Nick Cage in a plane!
