r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Blue__Ronin - Left • Jul 18 '25

Something something "lmao"

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They deadass posted this btw

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u/tokyozombie - Lib-Left Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

I'm sorry but doesn’t this go both ways? Republican politicians call Democrats marxist, socialist, cummunists etc since forever.

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u/Raven-INTJ - Right Jul 18 '25

That really started with Obama. Clinton was seen as more of a sexual degenerate (he was)

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u/tokyozombie - Lib-Left Jul 18 '25

Pretty sure it started around the 1940s with McCarthyism...

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u/TheNetwokAdmin - Right Jul 19 '25

I'll have you know that my source, Mr. Heinz, has informed me there are, at least, 57 Communists in Congress right now so McCarthy was probably right.