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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Pretty sure a large chunk of Americans think that Russia is still communist.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Russiagate libs who hold signs at protests that associate Trump with a hammer and sickle definitely still do. funny-clown-hammer

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the most hilarious things of late has been libs, who see themselves as a paragon of rationality, expose that they're just a different flavor of qAnon.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks ago
[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If they aren't, who's been pointing brain rays at me this whole time?

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Don't have to be communist to do that

[–] appropriateghost@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't think many even know what a communist is or what communism is about. it just makes them feel upset when they hear the word because of constant corporate mass media conditioning.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

US-americans: "Communism is when the government does things. The more things it does the communistier it gets."

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (63 children)

I think Americans are well past the point of blaming this on communism.

There's still a kinda fear of "socialism" and other stuff as specters, but it's internal. I don't think many here are looking at shit that's going down locally and saying "...Damn Russkies." I haven't seen that once IRL since like 2016. Even mega Trumpers I know are looking inward (at Democrats); that's kinda the point of the movement, and those I knew who were a little Cold War nostalgic have, sadly, passed away.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 2 weeks ago

excuse me? both parties ran an explicitly sinophobic campaign, not once have the politician or their voting base looked inwards.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nah.

Look at everyone attacking Mamdani, ethno fascists, techbros, liberals...

Its pretty much all 'he is a big bad scary communist.'

He is of course not actually a communist, but even an actual socdem is so far to the left of the American Overton Window, the only vocab words that exist are 'commie! socialist! which are the same thing, or something!'

Granted, the fact that Mamdani has significant public support means that there are more Americans who are more left-wing ... but the actual Dem leadership, as with Bernie, cannot countenance losing their corpo megadonors, so they pull out the stops for anything left of ... rainbow capitalism.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You have Trump doing Hitler 2.0 electric boogaloo and Bernie call it Stalinist cult come one

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I don’t think many here are looking at shit that’s going down locally and saying β€œβ€¦Damn Russkies.”

What? "Damn Russkies!" is like the number one thing hardcore Democrat supporters blame for the state of the US

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then what's all the China rhetoric about

Though to be fair I think it has died down a bit

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It used to be the justification for tariffs, but yeah, it really feels like it died down. MAGA targets have shifted to Europe, and more recently, Brazil.

Venezuela is a big one, too. Oh my god, my family will not shut up about Venezuela. But that's less new.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My neighbor blames every current problem on democrats by saying "they are communist" as his main point.

I wish they were, they aren't cool enough.

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[–] jUzzo6@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

β€œIs like North Korea”

[–] Aetherion@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Come off it, capitalism is just USAian culture.

[–] tfowinder@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

American Logic:Nazis were communists, Chinese are communists, USSR was communists, we are good everyone else is bad.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

PRC and USSR yes, Nazis no, the US is absolutely the worst Empire on Earth.

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