Come off it, capitalism is just USAian culture.
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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.
US-americans: "Communism is when the government does things. The more things it does the communistier it gets."
Communism is the government owning the means of production. Socialism is the people owning the means.
From which movie is this?
It looks like Battle Royale
βIs like North Koreaβ
Pretty sure a large chunk of Americans think that Russia is still communist.
And also that they,and me a Belgian, are all called Ivan or Vlad for some reason.
The Russiagate libs who hold signs at protests that associate Trump with a hammer and sickle definitely still do. 
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.
BlueAnon
If they aren't, who's been pointing brain rays at me this whole time?
Don't have to be communist to do that
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.
I donβt think many here are looking at shit thatβs going down locally and saying ββ¦Damn Russkies.β
What? "Damn Russkies!" is like the number one thing hardcore Democrat supporters blame for the state of the US
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.
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 lib lemmy posts and accounts.
Yeah, Lemmy does not represent the average liberal in the US, not even close.
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.
excuse me? both parties ran an explicitly sinophobic campaign, not once have the politician or their voting base looked inwards.
You have Trump doing Hitler 2.0 electric boogaloo and Bernie call it Stalinist cult come one
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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.
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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