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Showing Original Post only (View all)For the Epsteinth Time - a Democratic Socialist is not a Communist! [View all]
— @kitkat444.bsky.social (@katydid53.bsky.social) 2026-07-05T21:51:48.580Z
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For the Epsteinth Time - a Democratic Socialist is not a Communist! [View all]
ihaveaquestion
Sunday
OP
How about we talk about securing Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and food and housing security, stopping
Scrivener7
Sunday
#15
Exactly. The problem, though, is that the media ALWAYS picks it up and runs with it. We need a message
Scrivener7
Sunday
#20
We need pet food banks, hygiene centers... Dems should be doing this in their town halls in every district
MerryBlooms
Sunday
#14
In many places in the United States, that would drop like a stone. I love Mamdani. I don't care what
Scrivener7
Sunday
#21
Cultural Marxism is a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents Western Marxism (especially the
Celerity
Sunday
#11
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson: "Playing the Communist card is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
sop
Sunday
#6
No they are not. We (I live in Sweden) in the Nordics have social democracy, not democrat socialism. None of the nations
Celerity
Sunday
#17
Yeah ... see, it's the "restraint" part that the billionaires have a problem with
FakeNoose
Sunday
#22
Republicans have been calling democrats socialists since the Un-American Activities Committee
Blue Full Moon
Sunday
#28
Trumpers won't see this. They ignorantly believe any lie MAGA tells them especially if it's racist.
ChicagoTeamster
Sunday
#30
No one on the left SHOULD be making that claim. Conservatives are dumbasses who don't know the difference and use
Karasu
Sunday
#31
We Dems (and especially Democratic Socialists) don't truly understand the impact of brainwashing.
summer_in_TX
Monday
#33