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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMiddle Age Riot tweet:
When Republicans use the word "socialism," there are a lot of different things they could be referring to, but none of them are socialism.
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Middle Age Riot tweet: (Original Post)
tblue37
Oct 2021
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CrispyQ
(36,457 posts)1. My husband asked his right-wing brother to define socialism one day,
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...
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...
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
ask them to define critical race theory.
multigraincracker
(32,671 posts)4. Or Replacement Theory and
why it is taught in schools?