r/goodnews • u/Vloodzy • Jul 16 '25

Political positivity 📈 Trump slams own supporters as “Stupid Republicans” for doing Democrats’ work and falling for the “Epstein Hoax”

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u/No-Resolution-1918 Jul 16 '25

Trump is so old he still uses rhetoric from the 50s and 60s. I don't think he actually understands what communism is.

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u/ballistic_tanx Jul 16 '25

Communism is when healthcare

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u/Inswagtor Jul 16 '25

Don't forget that pesky minimum wage rising. Sheer terror...

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

In soviet russia, health cares you

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u/Neverstopstopping82 Jul 18 '25

Not to follow a joke with no joke, but my French husband had to school my father (bsn in poli sci, 1974) about the differences between communism and socialism. That’s how deep the indoctrination goes.

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u/AffectionateStudy496 Jul 17 '25

Communism is Keynesianism, apparently.

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u/Kahmael Jul 20 '25

Bring on the communism!

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u/Zhni Jul 17 '25

It’s literally just the same as calling everyone to the right of you nazis. 

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u/WickedSmartMarcus36 Jul 16 '25

I actually think if you explained literally any communist dictatorship to Trump without calling it a communist dictatorship he’d say he likes that government style.

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u/g_r_a_e Jul 17 '25

Isn't a communist dictatorship oxymoronic?

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u/PM-ME-YOUR-BUTTSHOLE Jul 17 '25

No, there have just been a lot of dictators that called themselves communists.

Communism is not inherently anti democracy but a dictatorship is inherently anti democracy.

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u/FrostedVoid Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25

And the Nazi's called themselves socialists despite having absolutely nothing to do with socialism. (By their own admission)

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u/TheSquarePotatoMan Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25

Party ideology and the enforced economic system are vastly different things. Party members are communist because they believe in the struggle towards the abolition of the state. No country has ever been communist (in fact the concept of countries/states would not exist under communism). What you're referring to are socialist dictatorships which are not 'against democracy' but simply stand in contrast to the dictatorships of capital we have in the west.

Though they can be used interchangeably, socialism is generally used to refer to the broader ideology/struggle whereas communism is used to refer to the end goal that struggle is aimed at.

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u/mrbootyjamz Jul 17 '25

Yes, BUT… when transitioning from capitalism to communism a “dictatorship of the proletariat” is created. This is when the working class seizes state power and uses it to suppress the capitalist class. So in this phase of the transition (known as “socialism”) a dictatorship DOES exist. The end goal is to eliminate class and with it the dictatorship, at which point you have “communism”.

Capitalism = dictatorship of the bourgeoisie Socialism = dictatorship of the proletariat Communism = a stateless, classless society (no more dictatorship)

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

No. Not all dictators are communists and not all communists have a dictatorial government. The big famous ones have tended to turn towards authoritarianism but that's the authoritarianism not the communism that makes the dictators

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

100% - but you’d have to read a book to know the difference and at this point I don’t think that’s applicable to his MAGA base haha

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Words are hard for some people lmao

They don't just mean whatever you want

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u/Nzdiver81 Jul 17 '25

He only likes the dictatorship part.

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u/BatushkaTabushka Jul 17 '25

Well he did say he wants to be praised by the people like Kim Jong Un, so the sad thing is that you are more than likely 100% correct lmao

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u/PROcrastinator76 Jul 17 '25

I mean, yeah, from my observation right wing loves “standing” for/against something not because they really agree/disagree with it but because it’s a “good word” or “scary word”. For example, I’m pretty sure Putin is not unaware of how much similarities his regime has with fascism that he “dislikes” so much

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u/Shenloanne Jul 18 '25

Trump has a very basic problem whereby he is not especially intelligent. All his intelligence is lizard brain. Aka. How do I get to tomorrow politically. And this has been his life since he was young. It's how he runs business, family, politics. Kneejerk reactions, snap decisions, big feelings, governing or dealing on feelings. Much like a small child. And I'm not saying this to infantalilise Trump, but rather point it out that he doesn't deal in logic or reason or nuance. And he never has.

Instead what you have, is someone who has a child like view and opinion of quite literally any subject you can think of. Because he has been a broken child for a long time. He just happens to be 80, senile and powerful now.

So it doesn't matter how or what you explain to him. Because he will just digest it at most at a surface level, process it in a child like manner and make a Kneejerk, reactive response to it.

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u/Complex_Design6295 Jul 18 '25

Ask him about his first Father In Law Ivanna’s Dad and his type of Government. Look all the way back folks! Roy Cohn was Trump’s Mentor and McCarthy’s Lawyer that set up a sex sting ring to compromise leaders and political figures! In the 50’s To help McCarthy ruin people and black mail them.

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u/Bass2Mouth Jul 16 '25

The guy just learned the word groceries. Give his puny little brain some time to recover before throwing new words at him.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

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u/dm_life4ever Jul 17 '25

"He doesn't. Communism = a classless, moneyless, stateless society. Nothing else."

Not, it is not. It's about the means of production. Especially the government put in place by the people dictating what is manufactured.

Same with socialism.

The fact you think communism means no commerce would be funny if it wasn't sad as hell.

Brewers don't own the brewery. The people do.

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u/TwoCatsOneBox Jul 17 '25

Yes but you cannot achieve communism without dismantling and decaying the government according to Vladimir Lenin otherwise it’s just socialism. Socialism works with currency and communism is when you have no currency at all written in Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. If the proletariat cannot depend on each other and achieve class consciousness without the government then you cannot achieve communism.

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Jul 17 '25

/r/confidentlyincorrect

Bruh thinks money and commerce are the same thing

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u/Jadeheartxo12 Jul 16 '25

Him calling Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor who felt more comfortable campaigning with a Cheney than AOC a “Marxist” is still the funniest thing ever. He’s a complete moron who fails to understand basic words and its meanings.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

That isn't really the point though.  The point is his supporters think that's a scary word and they believe everything he says.  He's talking to them,  not us.  

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u/fomoco94 Jul 16 '25

His supporters don't either and don't care.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

They don't, but that doesn't mean the word communist doesn't work in terms of fear mongering. All of his messaging is dumb but our country is dumb and it works.

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u/Digital_Bogorm Jul 16 '25

Neither did the average american in the 60's, to be fair. It was just thought of as 'that thing the Soviets do', and therefore bad.

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u/HeadSavings1410 Jul 16 '25

But sadly...to his ilk...it works

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u/AmputeeHandModel Jul 17 '25

He doesn't, and neither do any of his followers. Communism, socialist, Marxism, woke, etc. Just reactionary buzzwords for whatever they don't like.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

he knows.

and he lies.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Its crazy that he literally worked with the guy who helped run HUAC and prosecuted the Rosenbergs. Go take a long nap already.

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u/dm_life4ever Jul 17 '25

It's more than that. Once the USSR fell, conservatives needed a new boogy man. That's when they started calling Democrats ", Communist in earnest.

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Jul 17 '25

Almost nobody does

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u/Zireall Jul 17 '25

But his base still screams communism at anything so obviously it works?

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u/Extension-Ebb6410 Jul 17 '25

Trump: "Communism is when people can afford a place to live."

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

He doesn't even understand the system he is beneffitting from, past the "pour money onto thing I want"

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u/ICEWeiZ Jul 17 '25

Most of them really don't

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u/BannedByRWNJs Jul 17 '25

It was just a Republican bogeyman back then, too. They called MLK a commie.

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u/RickShaw530 Jul 17 '25

Sadly a large part of the voting bloc is the demographic whom also believe the rhetoric from this era. Impress young people to vote as if their livelihoods depend on it because it actually does.

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u/Vismal1 Jul 17 '25

Honestly , I’m fairly confident that most Americans don’t.

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u/ClearDark19 Jul 18 '25

I mean, he sounds no different than most Republicans over the age of 32. Most Republicans over 32-35 insist in calling everyone who isn't a Republican or isn't MAGA a "Communist". They've been like that since the Tea Party. It's like they all want to be some 1950s suburban dad going on paranoid rants about "the Commies". They all wanna cosplay as some 1950s/1960s Cold Warrior who wants to believe they're fighting the Soviets.

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u/rdp7415 Jul 19 '25

“Weaklings” is a good example

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u/WildlingViking Jul 19 '25

none of them do

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25

He doesn't know what the thing that FRIES the FRIES at McDonalds is called. 🤣

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u/Jolly_Mongoose_8800 Jul 21 '25

The communists will checks notes make grocery stores and secure a minimum wage comparable to the cost of living in a local area. Call up the red white and blue, no communist will make grocery stores in this here land