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Middle Age Riot tweet: (Original Post) tblue37 Oct 2021 OP
My husband asked his right-wing brother to define socialism one day, CrispyQ Oct 2021 #1
Basically, they think that anything the gov't does is socialism... Wounded Bear Oct 2021 #2
slight correction... Claire Oh Nette Oct 2021 #5
And if you want to fry the last of their few remaining brain cells Danascot Oct 2021 #3
Or Replacement Theory and multigraincracker Oct 2021 #4

CrispyQ

(36,457 posts)
1. My husband asked his right-wing brother to define socialism one day,
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 09:22 AM
Oct 2021

when the bro was being a jerk going off on the socialist dems. He stammered & stuttered a moment or two & my husband laughed. "Maybe you shouldn't use words you don't understand," he said. Incidentally, we're no longer speaking to him, since he's gone totally off the deep end.

Wounded Bear

(58,645 posts)
2. Basically, they think that anything the gov't does is socialism...
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 09:25 AM
Oct 2021

unless it is the Pentagon budget and maybe policing, if policing only applies to affluent neighborhoods. Don't bother with those "poor" neighborhoods.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
5. slight correction...
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 11:01 AM
Oct 2021

Reactionaries think anything the government does for Black or brown people is "socialism."

Danascot

(4,690 posts)
3. And if you want to fry the last of their few remaining brain cells
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 09:46 AM
Oct 2021

ask them to define critical race theory.

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