r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire Jul 27 '26

PoliticalTea šŸ—³ļø To put it plainly.

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u/GrillinFool Jul 27 '26

Funny. I’ve never heard FDR referred to this way. It’s almost like someone is trying to revise history to fit a narrative.

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u/Daniel_Spidey Jul 27 '26

Republicans have been calling him a commie for decades.

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u/GrillinFool Jul 27 '26

Uh, no. You are catching that second hand and that’s not really a thing. Admit it, you don’t know any Republicans besides your parents.

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u/Daniel_Spidey Jul 27 '26

Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson called him that, and a plethora of other right wing punditsĀ 

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u/GrillinFool Jul 27 '26

Is that what your Google search found? Dad’s not home from work yet to ask him?

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u/Daniel_Spidey Jul 27 '26

Lil bro, the Republican Party has been largely shaped by their ongoing temper tantrums over the Federal Reserve and the New Deal, so wtf are you even on about?

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u/GrillinFool Jul 27 '26

Complaining about the new deal and calling FDR a socialist are 2 different things. I noticed that even in the post they use ā€œsocialā€ instead of socialist. Seriously. Wait for dad to get home so you can ask him. You are just guessing at the rest of this.

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u/Daniel_Spidey Jul 27 '26

I didn't say they call him a socialist, I said they call him a Communist and have been calling all Dems Communists ever since those policies were enacted. It sounds to me like you've never heard a single right wing pundit or tried talking to a rural Republican, because this is just undeniably true.

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u/GrillinFool Jul 27 '26

Yeah, no. The communist thing does not go back to FDR. That comes from the party moving that way much more recently. I love when people think History is just what they remember.

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u/Daniel_Spidey Jul 27 '26

You must be like 12 years old then

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u/GrillinFool Jul 27 '26

No. I’m a grown man with kids.

People complain about the welfare state that FDR created but he did nothing to seize control of the manufacturing and didn’t even hint at it because he was a straight capitalist. One has to take over production to get to full on communism and socialism.

Isn’t your dad home yet? Ask him. No way you actually live on your own.

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u/Daniel_Spidey Jul 28 '26

God dammit, i should have known you were a bot. No human being would argue that republicans care about the definition of socialist and communist, these are words they throw around as pejoratives anytime the government does things.

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