• MerryChristmas [any]
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    2 years ago

    The way they are trying to implicate Republicans as communist sympathizers just makes me even more sure that this whole patsoc thing is an op.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You know, I'm usually not on board with labelling every random thing as an op, and mostly fall down on the "people are weird and do weird shit for weird reasons" side.

      This patsoc shit really has me wondering though. Take that Hinkle guy for instance, no more than six months ago he was a literal nobody in some dusty corner of youtube, and now he's on fucking Tucker all of a sudden. Gotta admit, seems weird as hell.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I have to constantly remind my parents sthat they don't actually understand what the words 'capitalism', 'socialism', and 'communism' are. The op is a long time running.

        • Mindfury [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          westerners are educated to not know what political ideologies mean, in order to entrench one of them as the status quo forever

    • Ziege_Bock [any]
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      2 years ago

      It's not that republicans are sympathizers with communists in the global south, It's that they're playing with the lives of victims of communism, which is mean. and we all know that republicans are woefully vulnerable to allegations of being big 'ol meanies.

      Just terrible politics and messaging.

  • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Excellent reply by Ben Norton countering this narrative btw:

    When it comes to imperialism, Democrats and Republicans are indistinguishable bloodthirsty anti-communists and racists

    Nicaragua has some of the lowest migration levels in Central America

    Most migrants are from Honduras (after a US-backed far-right coup), El Salvador, Guatemala

    DHS data on undocumented immigrants detained in 2020:

    318,516 Mexicans

    61,382 Guatemalans

    51,011 Hondurans

    23,051 Salvadorans

    13,028 Ecuadorians

    11,227 Cubans

    7917 Brazilians

    2739 Nicaraguans

    2220 Dominicans

    1639 Venezuelans

    Blaming "communism" is insane

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      1639 Venezuelans

      Wow the way they framed it you’d think there’s like a million Venezuelans trekking to the US lol

  • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Guatemala is communist. Mexico is communist. El Salvador is communist. Honduras is communist :theory-gary:

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    No mention of the death squads the USA set up in latin america and the drug trade that fuels it maybe being a reason why people want to flee? Nah, it's communism.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Is this red baiting 5.0 now? I've lost track. This is partly a swipe at China, partly a swipe at labor, etc. We've become to comfortable with the word communism. The media is gonna start kicking up the fear factory.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          (I have never, for example, met a “tankie” in real life, but they yell at me on Twitter fairly often.)

          it never crosses the author's mind that being a communist party member is illegal and that being open about your communism will result in official and social consequences

          • AssadCurse [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Or that very few people this lib would consider a tankie self-identify as a tankie, or that due to their upper class nature they are unlikely to cross path with many communists…

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              edit-2
              2 years ago

              this lib would definitely respond to any accusations of being in a social bubble by talking about how diverse thier upper class friends are

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Damn. I thought that this was maybe an exaggeration, but I watched the video. The democrats are irredeemable.

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    just keeps reinforcing my conviction that I am voting for fetterman, and then that's it. Done.

  • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Lmao is this Biden's press secretary?

    The Dems are not sending their best, folks

  • TankBombadil [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "When you think about Venezuela." What is exactly about Venezuela or Cuba that is communist and making them flee?