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EnergizedLib

(3,282 posts)
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:56 PM Sunday

It's time to push back against the fear porn [View all]

Socialist, communist, socialist, communist.

Learn the difference, per Google AI.

‘ Social programs are taxpayer-funded public services, like roads, public schools, and Medicare. They operate within a capitalist free-market system to ensure collective well-being and basic safety nets, and do not abolish private property or market competition.

Communism is a stateless, classless political ideology where all means of production—such as factories and farms—are collectively owned, with the total elimination of private property. Social programs are not communism; they are a feature of mixed economies’

For socialism:

‘Social programs (like public schools, roads, Social Security, and Medicare) are government-funded services designed to protect citizens, promote the general welfare, and stabilize a capitalist economy. They do not change who owns the businesses or the means of production.

Socialism, on the other hand, is an economic system. It requires that the means of production (e.g., factories, farms, and businesses) be owned and managed collectively by the workers or the public, rather than by private individuals.Experts and economists across platforms like Quora and Public Seminar generally agree that conflating the two is a common political tactic. Social programs can exist in any society—including free-market capitalist economies—to provide a social safety net without dismantling private enterprise.’

Universal healthcare will not usher in socialism. The felon pointed out we won the Cold War, pretty sure Social Security predated the Cold War and we won. I’m pretty sure we won the Cold War in spite of having New Deal and Great Society programs, which we enjoy to this day, and our country is not collapsing.

The felon is brainwashing people about communism as the new boogeyman, all while helping *himself* to tax money, but is counting on people to think their tax money going to their fellow every day citizen is the problem.

And by chance if you’re a MAGA lurker on here reading this (a couple of you have signed up to troll in the past), your false idol never cared about you. If he says he loves you, he might be right - but not in the way you think. It’s not because he cares about you, but because you’re a useful idiot to him to allow him in his position to grift like it’s going out of style. His life may be better, doesn’t mean yours is.

What’s hilarious is any of you MAGA lurkers who call us libtards, also think someone with TDS had a weather machine to control the temperatures, hence the State Fair being an epic flop or thinking that any of us had anything to do with your false idol scamming you out of money in that crypto coin.

Newsflash: ‘Libtards’ like myself couldn’t care less if *you* reaped what you sowed and got burned and conned. It’s the innocent people who didn’t vote for this or who voted against this, that’s where our concern lies.

Nobody is ever too good for their tax money to help other people in need. Our tax dollars are not more important than someone else’s welfare or healthcare, and yes, social programs do operate within capitalist economies. Social programs do not equal socialism or communism, but considering how MAGA feels entitled to their own facts….

We have to get this message out to ensure people know the difference. Having social welfare has not ushered in Leninism/Marxism/Stalinism.

Remember the caravan boogeyman in 2018? How’d that work for MAGA then? People see a system against them that’s only been further stacked against them since 1/20/25.

What MAGA *should* ask themselves is why the communism boogeyman when jobs are being lost now, job reports are below expectations, prices are higher, affordability is a concern, healthcare has been ripped away from millions, inflation is higher and despite the promise of no new wars, US servicemen and women, plus more than 150 Iranian schoolgirls, have perished due to Bibi getting himself a puppet.

Wake up, America. Your occupant in the White House wants you to think your tax dollars helping your neighbor is bad while he helps himself to grotesque amount to tax money.

My favorite president in history, Lyndon Johnson, said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

A 34x convicted felon is picking his own cultist’s pockets while brainwashing them that regular people are the problem.

And if you’re a MAGA lurker and you don’t care about any of the above, you don’t love America, you love a 34x convicted felon and you hate liberals like myself. We will defeat you in November 2026 *and* November 2028, too.

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Don't explain. Say, "We're Democrats. Here's what Democrats will do for you." Scrivener7 Sunday #1
People will want specifics, no? EnergizedLib Sunday #2
Start with Social Security and Medicare Raven123 Sunday #9
Social Security. Medicare. Medicaid. Affordable healthcare. Affordable groceries, for goodness sake. Scrivener7 Sunday #14
Hear, hear Cirsium Sunday #19
Also, the minute we start talking about "true definitions," to most people it's like the adults in Peanuts are talking. Scrivener7 Sunday #20
It is a distraction Cirsium Sunday #21
Well.... Cirsium Sunday #18
It evidently works EnergizedLib Sunday #22
Never mind them Cirsium Sunday #28
If you're explaining you're losing. Simplicity and brevity are critical in the ADHD culture. live love laugh Sunday #37
That's the perfect pivot and prevents the discussion from devolving Torchlight Sunday #4
Well, thank you! Another thing we ought to do is say, "The only ones pushing socialism are the Scrivener7 Sunday #13
So much this. ms liberty Monday #44
know your isms dweller Sunday #3
Can we pitch social programs and ditch the socialism word? EnergizedLib Sunday #7
Im good dweller Sunday #8
Me too EnergizedLib Sunday #10
Why not just "Democracy?" Scrivener7 Sunday #26
Because they call this s - - - "Democracy" blubunyip Monday #46
Call it a taxpayer benefit package, like employee benefits. CrispyQ Sunday #30
And yet, the other side markets so well EnergizedLib Sunday #31
They have studied their audience and know Scrivener7 Monday #43
One of the reasons republican marketing is so effective is cuz the dems never counter. -nt CrispyQ Monday #45
Another ism: Narcissism True Dough Sunday #27
That should be a t-shirt -misanthroptimist Sunday #32
And my favorite, Capitalism Polybius Monday #49
It's likely too late and pointless. J_William_Ryan Sunday #5
Well, we have to push back, don't we? EnergizedLib Sunday #6
No Cirsium Sunday #17
I'll agree. I've asked em..if your house catches fire, do you want the fire department or will your garden hose do? Deuxcents Sunday #36
All government jobs are a form of socialism. The Wizard Sunday #11
Unfettered capitalism EnergizedLib Sunday #15
I have no interest in learning anything from a tool designed to be a fluent conversationalist, not a factual one. n/t Ms. Toad Sunday #12
Don't take the bait Cirsium Sunday #16
Hypnosis Starbeach Monday #48
Exactly Cirsium Monday #50
You can't eliminate a century of stigma in a single post or election RandySF Sunday #23
So, what are we supposed to do? Take it? EnergizedLib Sunday #24
If we lose RandySF Sunday #25
AI wall of text post? No thanks. TommyT139 Sunday #29
Because fearmongering propaganda is a dangerous drug. Initech Sunday #33
Rush's legacy is alive and well EnergizedLib Sunday #34
An example of what comes to mind when many immigrants hear "socialism".. RandySF Sunday #35
Please stop using AI to source posts. intheflow Monday #38
Wait EnergizedLib Monday #39
You mean, did I post the right link? intheflow Monday #40
But did you mean EnergizedLib Monday #41
The homepage. intheflow Monday #42
Not afraid of republican insults. Blue Full Moon Monday #47
Reality: GOP voting counties contribute only 29% to the nation's overall economy. blm Monday #51
Yes, we've known that EnergizedLib Monday #52
Did you mean to start this paragraph with the word communism? applegrove Monday #53
Maybe I did EnergizedLib Monday #54
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Monday #55
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Monday #56
Can you fix it? applegrove Monday #56
I don't see what I messed up EnergizedLib Monday #58
Paragraph 4. It is in communism that the means of production are owned by the state. applegrove Monday #59
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