• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Americans threw Eugene Debbs in jail for protesting WW1. Americans unleashed the national guard on college campuses at Columbia and Kent State and on anti-homeless activists in Chicago and police reformer in Baltimore and Ferguson and now LA and New Orleans, in an endless war on anyone that even smelled slightly of whatever we’re defining as Marxist of late. These are people who spend God only knows how much money and manpower to put a surveillance dragnet around The Quackers, while screaming from the pulpit about how there’s no such thing as religious freedom anymore.

    Even if we completely rebranded socialism you’d make it your mission to add the Soviet imagery back in and remind everyone of it.

    They brand Donald Trump as a Soviet Socialist. It’s utterly divorced from reality.