• Barabas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I can’t believe anyone would take the opposite of ‘communism is when the government does stuff’ to unironically say ‘democracy is when capital gets to decide stuff’.

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        I mean it reads like she was saying people compared the strength of the U.S.'s democracy to that of communist dictators strength.

        As in the dictators had strong governments, and the U.S.'s democracy was just as strong in her mind.

        She was trying to compare Trump to a tyrant and clearly showing that democracy was falling apart.

        At no time in this text would I think she was actually calling Trump a communist.

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          Socialist countries have more comprehensively effective democracy than the US ever had, it’s just naked and absurd anti-communism from Harris.

        • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          Dawg i don’t know what’s wrong with you

          We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump

          “THAT’S WHAT WE’RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW IN TRUMP” with the direct antecedent being “communist dictators.” “That” being a “comparison between capitalist democracy and communist dictators” doesn’t make any fucking sense in that context. She’s calling him a communist dictator.