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[–] tfowinder@beehaw.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] appropriateghost@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days 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 8 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days 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 20 points 4 days 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 19 points 3 days ago
[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Don't have to be communist to do that

From which movie is this?

[–] jUzzo6@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

β€œIs like North Korea”

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Come off it, capitalism is just USAian culture.

[–] Aetherion@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (61 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.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

then lemmy is sampling all the stupidest libs to me, because blaming russians and chinese for their problems with trump and capitalism is the most common argument in .world posts and accounts.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days 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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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days 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.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 18 points 4 days 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 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

MAGA targets have shifted to Europe, and more recently, Brazil.

they seem to just want to strongarm some support against china with these shenanigans, honestly.

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