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In reply to the discussion: A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)12. Well, no. Poor Joy-Ann literally thinks there is still a Soviet Russia.
And that the Green Party, Snowden, and Sander are all into it, somehow! COMMIEEES! COMMIEESS EVERYWHERE! AIIEEEEE!
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That said, for most Americans it's shocking to see an American presidential candidate openly touting authoritarian, communist Russia...
Even Jill Stein, who's taken the socialist Green Party full Putinite, and the Putin-tilting Snowdenistas haven't been nearly as successful.
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That said, for most Americans it's shocking to see an American presidential candidate openly touting authoritarian, communist Russia...
Even Jill Stein, who's taken the socialist Green Party full Putinite, and the Putin-tilting Snowdenistas haven't been nearly as successful.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/joy-reid-roundly-derided-for-tweeting-that-russia-is-still-a-communist-state/
You can paint Trump as sympathetic to Putin, and Putin as a product of the Soviet era, but that doesn't get you anywhere near even Trump touting communism itself, much less Sanders, Snowden, or the Green Party.
Most people recognized that.
In addition to taking her to task for the anachronism, many accused her of drawing spurious connections between communism and modern Russia in order to demonize the far-left.
I imagine the old time American Communist Party is spinning in its collective grave with envy at what Trump is accomplishing, Reid tweeted.
She drew explicit comparisons between Putinism and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who she claimed had taken the socialist Green Party full Putinite. She also took aim at the Putin-tilting Snowdenistas.
I imagine the old time American Communist Party is spinning in its collective grave with envy at what Trump is accomplishing, Reid tweeted.
She drew explicit comparisons between Putinism and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who she claimed had taken the socialist Green Party full Putinite. She also took aim at the Putin-tilting Snowdenistas.
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Level of knowledge American journos have of today's Russia
When did Russia become "communist" again, @JoyAnnReid?
Level of knowledge American journos have of today's Russia
When did Russia become "communist" again, @JoyAnnReid?
Gary Johnson's knowledge about Syria vastly outpaces Joy Reid's understanding of Russia
@JoyAnnReid you do realize formal communism in Russia ended in 1991, right?
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Does @JoyAnnReid know the Soviet Union collapsed? Why does it all come back to commie bashing?
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Does @JoyAnnReid know the Soviet Union collapsed? Why does it all come back to commie bashing?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/joy-reid-roundly-derided-for-tweeting-that-russia-is-still-a-communist-state/
And even as for that, Putin is running a distinctly capitalist kleptocracy. You might look into his eyes and see "KGB," but he won't be turning over the means of production to the state any time soon.
Joy-Ann simply lost her damn mind at some point, and either forgot that the Soviet era ended 25 years ago, or just thought "commie" was the worst thing you could call anyone, and therefore should apply to anyone she disagreed with. To be that misinformed, and that unhinged, should disqualify her as a professional commentator anywhere in the public sphere.
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A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]
DFW
Nov 2016
OP
I think she's using the word as shorthand for "old school USSR, only with BMWs and high fashion"
MADem
Nov 2016
#15
LOL--most of the "Obama Scolds" here (most of whom have departed or been tossed over the side)
MADem
Nov 2016
#16
Hillary's not terribly "right." She's a product of her times, and has a JFK attitude on defense.
MADem
Nov 2016
#18
I don't think so. I think she is left of him on social programs, particularly women/kids issues.
MADem
Nov 2016
#20
Attacking Hillary and letting Trump win was not the way to move the Democratic Party left.
athena
Nov 2016
#26