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Imagine using the term "commies" in 2026 and expecting to be taken seriously.

• enquirewithin 2mo ago
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  • fragmede 2mo ago
    Making things less bad for poor people isn't automatically communism. Use your words, be expressive. It doesn't have to have a one word label, but if you must, how about Zohranism?
    • jojobas 2mo ago
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      • iamnothere 2mo ago
        It’s just that “commies” is a stupid pejorative out of the 1950s. It sounds antiquated, convinces nobody, and only people who already hate communism will listen to you. It’s like Dems who refer to Republicans as “Rethuglicans” or Republicans who call Dems “Democraps”, or like lefties who call everyone to their right a nazi. There’s also something about shortening “communist” to the childish “commie” that makes you sound less serious, IMO.
• jojobas 2mo ago
  Imagine being incensed by use a pejorative term used towards a movement that almost always killed more people in peacetime than even fascists. Remove outliers like Hitler and Pol Pot and you can drop "almost".
  • shigawire 2mo ago
    Oh no... Anyway let's feed, house, and heal our population like the Bible says.
    • jojobas 2mo ago
      Let's also shoot anyone we don't like with poison gas shells, take hostages from our own population and work a few hundred thousands to death for good measure.