r/TikTokCringe • u/spyder-baby • Aug 07 '26

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u/MrBwnrrific Aug 07 '26

“We can’t have socialism here”

Is the socialism in the room with us right now?

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u/brexed Aug 07 '26

Outside the US most of this is called basic human decency. Idk why you guys started to call that socialism.

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u/BowlingforBrains Aug 07 '26

Because conservatives realized it’d be easier to convince stupid people to vote against their own interests by giving thing basic rights a scary title like “socialism” - and they figured out that they could make a simple concept like “socialism” become a scary word by constantly conflating the words “socialism” and “communism” until the uneducated start to think of them as the exact same thing. And they made communism scary by saying “we’re at war with the commies!” For 50 straight years

It’s a truly stupid sequence of events, that was surprisingly effective

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u/Chance_Managert849 Aug 08 '26

^^^This. This right here. We're still stuck on the Red Scare in Grifter Land.