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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.
Yeah, Lemmy does not represent the average liberal in the US, not even close.
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.
You have Trump doing Hitler 2.0 electric boogaloo and Bernie call it Stalinist cult come one
Then what's all the China rhetoric about
Though to be fair I think it has died down a bit
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.
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.
What? "Damn Russkies!" is like the number one thing hardcore Democrat supporters blame for the state of the US
And for good reason, Russia has had a singular leadership for going on 30+ years while America is in disarray every four, you donβt thinkthey have plans, long-term plans to stabilize the United States through many different means and ways
Modern Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy theory.
What are you like 18
What an odd response