• cabbage@piefed.social
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    6 months ago

    We all know Trump is Putin’s man in America. We all witnessed his presidency, we all saw their cozy little press conference with their secret little meeting.

    It boggles my mind how dishonest or plain stupid one has to be, as a serious journalist, to frame MAGA Putin supporters as something intellectually surprising or out of the ordinary. Trumpism has been Putin’s project since day one, and there’s no way the journalist is not aware of that.

    Journalists are so fucking hungry for a spin they obscure reality in the process.

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        I personally think fascism it’s in some POV similar about some things to communism, but definitely are not the same principally in the humanist part.

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    “If you’re a political movement and you want to get supporters at a time when socialism is attracting more and more interest, well, you might be tempted to grab hold at least of the name,” Wolff said, noting that this was a strategy most famously used by Adolf Hitler during his rise to power.

    Yeah. That’s why they called themselves National “Socialists”. To suck up ignorant working class votes. I mean, they are even openly admitting following the same strategy now and everybody is still sleeping…WTF.

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      I don’t want to believe this but given the way things keep developing in this saga I bet it fucking works

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    6 months ago

    And again the idiot right has no idea what communism is, whether they claim to oppose it or espouse it.

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    Heh, their Discord server name has literally “tankies” in its name. Not that I am surprised…

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    MAGA communism is when instead of returning the means of production to those doing the work one just starts a authoritarian state capitalist regime. I don’t think the government funding gyms is some terrible thing but it won’t stop the “feminization” these people decry.

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    6 months ago

    MAGA is a euphemism for Make Russia Great Again. Republicans are either to stupid to realize it or fully on board with the destruction of the United States.