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Escurumbele

(3,407 posts)
8. I know you are being sarcastic, but the reality is that what you list is what dictators will do if
Mon Aug 9, 2021, 10:13 AM
Aug 2021

they succeed, but their ignorant base doesn't see it.

Not going too far, look at Venezuela, that is not Socialism, it is Communism/Dictatorship (they are the same, its like having twins, they are identical but with different names), people there are eating from the garbage, they are standing on long lines to buy bread and sometimes when they get there the bread is gone.

That is the wet dream of republicans.

IronLionZion

(45,598 posts)
9. Dems claim they want the Nordic model
Mon Aug 9, 2021, 10:18 AM
Aug 2021

but really we want to go full Soviet and put everyone on the Maduro diet to solve our obesity problem.

You're thinking of authoritarianism, of which Trump and many RWers would happily force onto us. When people claimed 2020's empty shelves, PPE shortages, full hospitals, mass deaths, etc. were a trial run for socialism, I had to remind them that all that happened while Trump was president.

Layzeebeaver

(1,645 posts)
10. The monster forgot that voting shouldn't just be easier - it needs to be an equal right!
Mon Aug 9, 2021, 10:55 AM
Aug 2021

and it needs to be No. 1

If not, then all the other stuff will never happen.

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