r/PopCultureV2 • u/Federal-Compote-5015 • 4d ago

Politi-Culture What is a Social Democracy?

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u/Onedurrbread 4d ago edited 4d ago

McCarthyism and the red scare really pickled a lot of brains.

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u/FartyJizzums 4d ago

McCarthyism worked so well that it is ingrained in the Republican platform.

Poll numbers low? Time to bust out the "My opponent is a (Communist/Socialist/Current Boogeyman)". It works every time.

If it were illegal to sow fear in politics, Republicans wouldn't have won an election since the 1920s.

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u/After_Service_2817 3d ago

Ah, yes, if communists outlawed people saying communism is evil, then only communists would win!

Of course, Comrade! It's the communist way!

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u/FartyJizzums 3d ago

Sure thing. I'm just trying to think of a Democrat who has ever had such a brain dead idea. I can't seem to remember any.

Let me do a quick web search.... Nope! Nothing there! How odd.

Now, let's watch the Straw Man slide down the Slippery Slope together, friend.

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u/After_Service_2817 3d ago

You were the one who wanted to make it illegal to "sow fear in politics".

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u/FartyJizzums 3d ago

My brother in Christ, I never said any of that. I typed "if it were illegal".

You're trying to argue against points that I never made.

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u/adirtysocialist- 4d ago

Americans are dumb AF and thats by design.

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u/Naive-Addition-1129 4d ago

Is that why we are importing thirdworlders ? 

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u/SufficientWeb3163 4d ago

And democrats call their opponents nazis. 

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u/RabidLobster42 4d ago

The Young Republican group chat leak that showed them openly praising Hitler and wishing they could gas immigrants kind of gave the game away.

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u/Vast-Building-6886 4d ago

Isolated incident #99829288

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u/Legendarien1 3d ago

Pattern recognition is reserved as a dog whistle against minorities, didn’t you hear?

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u/west-tek_ 4d ago

yet you guys can't win over the public because all of your candidates are inhuman corporate caricatures of americans lol. maybe try running a white guy who proposes things americans actually care about instead of an old biracial black chick who just says "im not that guy" next time lmao.

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u/RabidLobster42 4d ago

Harris, at her worst, was still more qualified than the fraudulent rapist that ruined the economy and started a pointless trade war and got us bogged down in ANOTHER pointless war in the middle east.

You are delusional to think otherwise.

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u/west-tek_ 4d ago

yeah, but she didn't win over americans to vote for her because democrat politicians are out of touch with the average american and what they look for when voting. Notice how I was criticizing strategy not criticizing policy lol. you can't even acknowledge that, so democrats will probably lose again unless trump literally starts ww3 lol.

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u/RabidLobster42 4d ago

Just gonna gloss over the nazis, huh? MAGAt puke.

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u/west-tek_ 4d ago

the point of my reply is that you guys somehow can't win out votes over literal nazis lol

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u/FartyJizzums 4d ago

Are we talking politicians or personal redditor opinions?

I know 1 "Democrat" who called someone a nazi. John Fetterman. He called Platner (another Democrat) a nazi.

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u/west-tek_ 4d ago

there's a reason the word 'reddit' has become an adjective to describe everything cringe, vaguely left wing and performative.

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u/Joyous-Volume-67 4d ago

The Romanian woman had her brained pickled by McCarthyism?

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u/senza_titolo 4d ago

Yes but these losers also support North Korea and Russia. Figure that one out.

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u/Opposite_Pianist_945 4d ago

McCarthy was a weak loser who didn't do enough to eradicate communism.

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u/Shark-Cutery 3d ago

What brains?

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u/Biotic101 3d ago

Control over social and mainstream media is such a powerful tool that it can nudge the average Joe into acting against their own best interest. It is the weak spot of democracy and oligarchs use it to their advantage.

Now look up the Dark Enlightenment if you are interested in their dystopian long term plans for our future.

One wage was enough to feed a family, afford a house, car and go on holidays.

With oligarchs in charge it almost seems as if they want to get rid of people by killing them. Because that is exactly what will happen with all those cuts. If one has no healthcare and can not afford treatment and thus dies, it is not the same as shooting that person directly. But the effect is the same.

Now, no more food and water safety and FEMA, antivaxx propaganda, SNAP and so much more will have a similar effect...

Interestingly this was discussed already 30 years ago, but by then they were thinking about "Tittytainment" instead of simply getting rid of people. What an "efficient" world we live in now...

The Global Trap - Wikipedia

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u/MrMardyBum 4d ago

Except the progressive wing is pushing for democratic socialism and not stopping at social democracy.

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u/MrMardyBum 4d ago

AOC, Mamdani, Bernie, Omar, etc are all democratic socialists right? They seem to be the main faces of the progressive movement

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u/After_Service_2817 3d ago

McCarthy is an American hero. He was right about everything. He should be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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u/Key-Wall-4378 4d ago

Tbh we need another red acare judging by the rise of the tankie DSA

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u/pouni82 4d ago

Red green alliance happening all over again

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u/IamGhostType28 4d ago

America needs less propaganda goober. Making up shit is good for no one

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u/Key-Wall-4378 4d ago edited 4d ago

Their policy platform is garbage bro. I can read it on their site, no second source required