• @[email protected]
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    1684 months ago

    i cannot believe how many decades a single word has had a chokehold on this country with zero sense of political nuance

    • @[email protected]OP
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      4 months ago

      Yup. Decades of Cold War propaganda, an incompetent news media, and a binary, two-party duopoly that positions itself as “the right” versus “the left” have all worked together on this one.

      • FenrirIII
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        34 months ago

        The media aren’t incompetent, they’re complicit

    • @cmbabul
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      124 months ago

      The Russian Revolution freaked the capitalists out and they’ve done everything they could for nearly a century to demonize the concept of solidarity

    • @cucumber_sandwich
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      94 months ago

      The cold war has been over for almost as long as it went on…

      • @[email protected]
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        294 months ago

        And I still continually find people on the internet calling Russia communist. It’s enough to make a communist scream.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        134 months ago

        Nah, it never ended. It just became multipolar and (usually) less obvious.

        • @cucumber_sandwich
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          64 months ago

          Ok, sure. But the whole red scare was specifically about the bipolar part with focus on the Soviet Union

    • @danc4498
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      24 months ago

      Nuance doesn’t even enter the conversation when it comes to communism. Republicans tell lies based on their voters inability to understand the basic definition of communism.