The funny thing about Communism

@mchill said
The immigrants who came here to escape communism can't believe Americans are trying it.


That's going to come as a shock to the folks on Wall Street. Our financial markets, S&P 500 companies, small and medium sized business haven't reported any communist takeover. The right wing just can't let go of the old "red scare" can they?

Are you now, or have you ever been?! -The spirit of old Joe McCarthy lives on. 🙄

Yes, regardless of how rabid the right gets, Communism does not live here.

@earl-of-trumps said
Better dead than red, and I would much prefer Joe McCarthy over Gestapo Joe

Joe Biden? Don't be an idiot. Joe McCarthy was Gestapo Joe.

Of course you'd prefer fascism. Most on the right would, too.

Biden and Obama were both moderates, as middle-of-the-road as you can get, but you and Rush, Sean and Tucker all think they were Communists. That is beyond stupid. But I guess anything to the left of Nazi Germany is communist to you guys.

If Biden is a Communist, then Trump is a Fascist.

@suzianne said
Conservatives ARE Fascist.

Trump would love, love, LOVE to become Führer. The truly scary thing is that his supporters would love to see it happen.

This is you local partisan binary mindset showing. There are billions of “conservatives” in the world and the vast majority do not hold to fascist ideals.

Then you’ve conflated and generalised “Conservatives” with Trump and Trump with Nazism and in one fell swoop of your extremist thinking you’ve stereotyped half of the world with Hitler.

No wonder you are incapable of holding any middle-ground conversations or relationships here.

@kevin-eleven said
Well ain't that Amerika.

Unfortunately, it is right now.

Do you think America is a tolerant nation? I mean tolerant of "the other", anyone not white, anglo-saxon or protestant? Not on your life.

@suzianne said
You don't live in the US, so I'm going to assume your comments don't take the US into consideration.

If you did live here, your tune would have a different name.

Do you have to live in a country in order to be able to observe what’s going on and comment on it?

Do you live in all parts of the US?

@suzianne said
Do you think America is a tolerant nation? I mean tolerant of "the other", anyone not white, anglo-saxon or protestant? Not on your life.

Why do you insist on stereotyping an entire nation?

@earl-of-trumps said
Better dead than red

What does this actually mean?

@divegeester said
This is you local partisan binary mindset showing. There are billions of “conservatives” in the world and the vast majority do not hold to fascist ideals.

Then you’ve conflated and generalised “Conservatives” with Trump and Trump with Nazism and in one fell swoop of your extremist thinking you’ve stereotyped half of the world with Hitler.

No wonder you are incapable of holding any middle-ground conversations or relationships here.

Step right up to the Conservative Pig Trough! If the shoe fits, eat it!

Hey, stupid. If I did start talking about politics anywhere in the world EXCEPT America, you'd call me out for not knowing what I'm talking about, and you'd be right. But I AM talking about America, and therefore you don't know what you're talking about. World politics has ZERO to do with American politics.

So how about this. You stop talking to me as if I'm talking about world politics and I'll excuse your ignorance about American politics.

@shavixmir said

All fascists have a degree of conservativism in them (albeit often mythological in nature), but conservatives (as a group) is just a comparison to progressives.

What about communist fascists?

You and shallow blue are infecting some interesting posts with your own partisan opinions on “conservatives.

“All fascists have a degree of conservatism”
This is a made up claim by you both.

@suzianne said

Hey, stupid.

Your angry ad hominem attacks do nothing to me, nor do they strengthen your extremist opinions.

@divegeester said
Why do you insist on stereotyping an entire nation?

It's my nation, dipsh-t.

I know it far, FAR better than you do. I've seen firsthand and lived through what Trumpism has done to America. There is nobody more stupid on the planet than the Trump base. You, on the other hand, have no clue. Do you live here? Do you see it every day? No.

@divegeester said
Your angry ad hominem attacks do nothing to me, nor do they strengthen your extremist opinions.

So what?

@suzianne said
Step right up to the Conservative Pig Trough! If the shoe fits, eat it!

Hmm. I think this comment is just and angry blurt; you’re annoyed because you made a poorly thought through comment which stereotyped billions of people and you got called on it.

@suzianne said
So what?

So … your already extremist, partisan even Trumpist-style opinions are not supported by calling your detractors names.

@divegeester said
What about communist fascists?

You and shallow blue are infecting some interesting posts with your own partisan opinions on “conservatives.

“All fascists have a degree of conservatism”
This is a made up claim by you both.

You are an idiot who obviously never studied political science.

Communist Fascists. Good one.

They're opposite ends of the political spectrum.

Perhaps you're confused by conflating what a political party calls itself, and their actual ideology.

The National Socialists weren't actually socialists, were they? Maybe you think so, but like whodey and others who've tried defending the right by calling Nazis socialists, you're just as wrong.