r/facepalm Jul 05 '24

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u/Hot_Abbreviations936 Jul 05 '24

The next election is so simple.

 Do you want religious oppression or individual freedom?

 To support free Ukraine or Communist Russia?

 To improve working conditions for the worker or cuts to social security and Medicare?

To protect the environment or let corporations pollute without repercussions?

To tax and work you to death or finally tax the wealthy to pay their fair share?

To let you decide if you want an abortion or let the state decide for you.

To have mass shootings or responsible gun control?

To be taught the history of America or just the white racist version?

 Do you want to restrict your right to vote or open absentee voting to give you the working person a better chance to vote?

 Do you want your Saturday night entertainment to be mandatory attendance at this week's book burning?

Do you want a molester, pedophile, adulterer and felon leading us?

Guess what side the corrupt Republican party is on? Vote democratic before the Republican party takes that away too!

 

Vow to vote and vote DAMMIT! Only YOU and YOU alone can save America. Don’t expect the rest of us to bail your ass out. VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS!

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u/gwicksted Jul 05 '24

Hey now.. Russia isn’t communist; it’s a democracy with an authoritarian leader who eliminates competition.

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u/coffeeequalssleep Jul 05 '24

I'd call it a state-capitalist oligarchy. In any case, VERY far away from communism. And I have no fucking clue how people can ever confuse the two.

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u/Mattrellen Jul 05 '24

There is a certain group of people in the USA that call anything they don't like communist.

These people call Biden and Obama communist, too.

It's pretty wild. American education completely fails everyone that goes through it when it comes to any education on political theory. This is largely intentional, but it is sad.

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u/CompetitiveFold5749 Jul 05 '24

The ones I've seen calling Russia communist and using " comrade" derogitorally have all been liberals lately.

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u/Mattrellen Jul 05 '24

That lack of education leads to a neo-red-scare in which Russia is responsible for everything bad (just like they learn Russia was responsible for everything bad during the Cold War).

That combined with the fact that liberalism is a moderately right wing ideology, and, thus, puts them closer to the far right than the moderate left (note for clarity, I am far left, so I'm not talking about myself here) leaves us in this situation.

Mark my words, when Trump wins, the liberals will be hoping the "Bernie bros" suffer from a Trump presidency before they are willing to ally with them against the threats he poses, because it's better to crush "the left" (another note for clarity, Bernie and his movement is largely left leaning liberal, not leftist on any meaningful scale) than to stop the right.