• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      5 months ago

      See, that’s the thing.

      People just don’t seem to realize how important my opinion is. I did, like, research and stuff!

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    33·
    5 months ago

    It already has more gay and trans people than any other city in the US by numbers. Now they just need some socialism!

  • rockettaco37@feddit.nuEnglish
    27·
    5 months ago

    Socialism is a buzzword that has been used in the US to attack anything remotely progressive that’s happened in the last century.

    When Social Security and the New Deal programs were introduced, they were called socialism

    When the voting age was lowered to 18, it was called socialism

    When the FMLA was passed, it was called socialism.

    It’s literally just a word that Republicans who don’t want to support our communities use instead of just flat out admitting that they’re anti human

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      It’s literally just a word that Republicans who don’t want to support our communities use instead of just flat out admitting that they’re anti human

      Let’s not pretend it’s just republicans.

    • Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      5 months ago

      Any sources on this? I’d like to share with some relatives.

      Edit : I wanted some more ammo for Thanksgiving coming up, so thank you for the help.

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 months ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Criticism

        In 1934, Roosevelt defended himself against those critics in a “fireside chat”:

        [Some] will try to give you new and strange names for what we are doing. Sometimes they will call it ‘Fascism’, sometimes ‘Communism’, sometimes ‘Regimentation’, sometimes ‘Socialism’. But, in so doing, they are trying to make very complex and theoretical something that is really very simple and very practical… Plausible self-seekers and theoretical die-hards will tell you of the loss of individual liberty. Answer this question out of the facts of your own life. Have you lost any of your rights or liberty or constitutional freedom of action and choice?[279]

        At the same time, there was an actual (failed) attempt at a fascist coup on Roosevelt’s watch:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

        The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch[1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.

        So, yeah. Fascists hate this stuff and will do anything to fight it, from name-calling to revolution.

  • kubica@fedia.io
    22·
    5 months ago

    Talking seriously, from a “centrist” point of view, worrying about that a “gay trans sociallist hellscape” makes no sense seeing how easy is for the right to get to power no matter how crazy it seems.

  • merdaverse@lemmy.zip
    18·
    5 months ago

    It’s funny how they’re trying to paint him as a communist revolutionary or something, and in the process, just making him look even cooler.

  • unphazed@lemmy.world
    15·
    5 months ago

    If we don’t attempt democratic socialism then capitalism will bring absolute poverty to the economy (we’re already so close, but people aren’t eating leather yet), which will lead to revolt, rebellion, and lots of death. Then a most likely scenario will be Communism, where things will likely look good at first, then quickly fall backwards. Then more revolt, then fractured states. We’re about 50 years away from being the Northern States of America, with all kinds of squabbles, different laws, sketchy trade deals, etc. All this will likely end in the worst scenario: Texas is claimed by Mexico and Texans will all be refugees fleeing to other states.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
      3·
      5 months ago

      Dude I think you’ve been drinking a little too much of the kool-aid, none of those scenarios would actually happen even within 50 years. Absolutely no way zero. If you think Mexico would become a more successful State than any part of the United States then you really are smoking some good shit. And the United States devolving to Communism within 50 years that is not even going to happen not even a little not even anyway no way no how.

      • falseWhite@lemmy.world
        12·
        5 months ago

        IKR, it’s gonna happen much sooner. The way things are going right now, it will only take 10-20 years.

        Even then, 20 years is very generous and it could be much less. It took only a few years for Germany to become fascist. History taught us that governments and ideologies can change VERY quickly.

  • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    13·
    5 months ago

    Credit where it’s due though: Karen’s got a pretty sweet flip 'do going on.