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oh no they’re going to start calling democrats the same thing they’ve been calling democrats for 20 years now

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OH NOoOooooooOo they’re going the thing they've already been doing for decades!!!! Anyway anyone else remember when they called Kathy hochul a communist.. bsky.app/profile/feen...

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social

The New York Post is calling Gov Kathy hochul a communist all because she endorsed the democratic nominee for mayor zohran mamdani. Let this be a lesson to the democrats Gov huchul is about as far from a communist as it is possible to be. Yet they still called her a communist. just push good policy

I'm well aware the whole 'Anything I don't like or disagree with is a communist' thing isn't new or uncommon. Whenever I see this kinda comment now it makes me think of when Knowledge Fight went back to some really early Alex Jones shows and he was routinely calling George W an "Arch Communist"

It's the same knee-jerk memetic shortcuts of calling everything "the devil". No thought required; no nuance; just shun the objectionable, that has been deemed, by their definition, anathema.

Ironically, a form of communism is actually very normalized here in the United States. The Amish. Albeit non-Marxist they do conform to communal means. Had they not have to adhere to a capitalist system, their communes would be fundamentally identical They are also famously pacifists. Non-violent

I just love how both parties consistently call each other communists, yet your average American doesn't even blink twice at this phenomenon I need a series where someone just asks random Americans to identify what communism is and questions on American/world history. That would be cinema

Mamdany knows exactly that they will use every moment he looks serious to paint him as aggressiv or violent. That's why he smiles all day. These pictures don't work if there are so many viral photos of him with his big smile cuddling mascots, high fiving children or celebrating with the Knicks.

Zohran is one helluva charismatic guy. His so-called socialism is pragmatism in a city that's been choked by billionaire corruption. If he and millions understood this just think what we could do. bsky.app/profile/patr...

Patrick Lovell The Producer @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com

Now that the Dem rift is clear that the Status Quo is no longer tenable, because it's morally bankrupt. That corruption is the point. It's time for tens of millions discover we gave the Epstein Class tens of trillions illegally to hijack everything. What can we do? This. youtu.be/7AyG1PBzQrU

Clearly the solution here is to move further right and reach across the aisle, to coax Trump supporters into abandoning him and voting Democrat. They may have slapped our hand away and called us a communist the previous 10 times we tried this plan, but surely the 11th time is the charm.

i genuinely think communist candidates will be viable in the united states soon just because everyone from bernie sanders to joe manchin is considered a communist anyway, the optic damage is totally diffused

Zohran Mamdani can't be a communist anyway. He hasn't tried to meaningfully return power to the working class, all he's done is try to stop poverty. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but people really need to consider the fact he's a social democrat at best.

What's next? Will they call the most milktoast center left liberal a communist before going on a rant about satanic gays like they have for the last 50 years now?

My favorite part of conservatives trying to insult Mumdani is that they only talk in generalities cause they have no real reasons or examples to dislike him 😂

every year i’ve been old enough to know what politics is, any sort of democrat has been called that at least once. i know conservatives aren’t thinkers but how does this word not lose its meaning to them

The Weird Little Guys podcast were the ones who described to me the difference between anti-Communism, opposition to communist ideals and governments, and "Anticommunism," the nearly-religious idea that communism is the great opponent of goodness and everything bad is communism

I was told that the Democrats don't have an identity crisis, but at the same time the elected Democrat representatives don't have the same values as their voters 🤷‍♂️ 😂

they did have that shared 📖 with the little ones (who may have been too young to know who they were) 🤔💭 it was in The Bronx for anyone of us that grew up on Sesame Street and/or Mr. Roger's Neighborhood (the original not Eddie Murphy's satire) was so fun to see them mingle kids climbing on them

Democrats have been called socialist and communist since at least FDR. But it was FDR who shaped the modern America that most people rely on and believe in. It's time for Democrats to run for policies that are broadly popular and stop being afraid of being called names by Republicans.

The Nazis called themselves socialists (at first, before they threw the socialists out, long before they murdered them all). So it's a bit weird to claim that they're hiding from their true, bad name.

Dems have shifted right since Reagan. Universal healthcare, traversable cities, a green future, and eliminating billionaires aren't just "moderate"; they are wildly popular, human-first policies. We must embrace progressives, leftists, and socialists instead of rebranding. Also, no more AIPAC!

The entire MAGAsphere flipped the “-ism" switch from “socialists” to “communists” simultaneously - as if Frank Luntz had issued some kind of FAX-fatwa to update the Reagan-era messaging to something a bit more McCarthyish. Good times. Good times.

We all know radical communist Joe Biden is behind the scenes masterminding this whole thing. With his lieutenant, arch-Palestinian Chuck Schumer.

Pst. That's kind of what a communist is. The narrative is controlled and warped glossing over the atrocities of capitalism and the continual efforts of the US to undermine communism as a whole.

There is no reality in which anything Mamdani has said or done comes any where near tyrannical Communism. These Right wing influencers are sounding more ridiculous every day.

Remember this time last year when they were convinced they'd won a complete and total cultural victor and that the left was truly dead? good times...

so what i'm hearing is that having made socialism popular by tagging any mildly helpful policy as socialist, they're now going to do the same for communism critical support for the right wing media and democratic establishment on this one

It was the go-to insult for decades, and I heard it less and less over time, I think, because linking the term to socialized medicine had just gotten an increasing number of people say they wanted to be communist.

If they hate ‘tyrannical communists’ they shouldn’t have put one in the White House. One man with absolute unchecked power, enriching himself and those loyal to him at the expense of the populace. That’s communism. See also fascism…