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[–] [email protected] 151 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He is going to stop the red wave.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago

Oh fucking bravo.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't red associated with communism in the USA? It just gets more confusing.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but since 2000, it's been the republican color. We were pretty over the whole communism thing at that moment in time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Valid. It still confuses me regularly though, because I remember "the reds" to be the enemy of the USA.

Having said that, it's probably true either way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The GOP wants the control and power that Russia had but, rather than the means of production being owned by the state, they want to keep it owned by the rich and powerful (aka oligarchs). So they want fascism but with all the totalitarianism that Russia had.
So basically they are the new version of the Reds that you remember.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like Nazi Germany to me. Granted I may not have a nuanced understanding of the economic system used by the Nazi party at that time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The Nazis were definitely fascist .

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Red is the color of the Republican/Conservative party in the US

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Free IUDs! Hell ya.