• gencha@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

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

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      3 months ago

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

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        3 months ago

        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.

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          3 months ago

          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.