• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If the right had their way with the healthcare, education and welfare systems that would be sooner than they think.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      2 months ago

      You did do it multiple times, though. That’s probably why. Once is justified; repeating it in the same thread is when it starts to become harassment.

      Though the guy you called out said Trump isn’t a fascist and wasn’t removed, despite the fact that posting misinformation is against the rules. So that’s kinda fucked up.

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    I don’t get it. If this is in reference to US Politics (it almost always is), the right is red.

    If it’s in reference to 20th century communists, fair play.

    If it’s in reference to British soldiers of the 18th and 19th centuries, again fair play.

    Ambiguity is the nemesis of fun.

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      2 months ago

      It is definitely a “1933-1945 Germany against Soviet Union” reference. There’s also a German version: lieber tot als rot. The US/NATO version during the Cold war came later

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        2 months ago

        Count again. 3 ways to get it. Including the way you’ve linked. My first one was correct.

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          Lol your first one was wrong, bud

          Edit: and there were two ways to “get it,” meaning “understand it,” not three. That’s quite a few comprehension errors in your effort to be critical of this post!

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      Saying “the right is red” with that much emphasis on “is,” is super misleading.

      The Republican party, over the last half century, or so, have adopted the color. But very rarely is anyone refereed to as “a red”. Someone might say “red vs. blue” as shorthand for Republican vs. Democrat, but that’s really as far as the color thing goes. And if you go back a little further, they were switched completely; Democrats used red.

      Anyway, it is the boomers’ collective PTSD from the McCarthy era that cemented “red” to mean “communist”. Unfortunately, the red scare never really ended.

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    2 months ago

    I don’t wish death upon them, but they can go ahead and let the rest of us exist in peace.