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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 51 points 1 month ago

So they want us to band together, pay taxes, and fund institutions that use labor rights and labor unions, weekends, and a 40 hour work week to fight the thing that gave us all those things ?

Mate, we need to talk.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Fighting Communism" by handing a billion dollars to my cousin, who regularly combs the beach with a little metal detector looking for bits of communism along the shore.

"Fighting Communism" by giving Jack Jason and the Fartbox on AM Radio 1400 another million dollars to run ads about how cool President Calvin Coolidge was.

"Fighting Communism" by hiring a bunch of skin heads from San Bernadino to drive around in a sprinter van and shoot people out the window gangland style when they see any communism they don't like.

"Fighting Communism" by giving the American owned branch of TikTok ten thousand new AI generated influencer accounts to do the "Why Hitler Should Have Just Sacked Leningrad rather than Sieging It" dance numbers.

"Fighting Communism" by redoing the DC reflecting pool another ten times.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Common, it's for the children!!

/s

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They could pretty much say "we need $350b to open more prison camps for the 1% to rape and eat children when they're bored" and I'm pretty convinced nothing would happen so stop it, why even bother with the communism cherade anymore

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

for the people that kamala harris tried to convince to vote for -- people that think that republicans and democrats are mostly same, but still better than those dirty commies.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The mythical fence-sitter that they've been pandering to since the 90s so they could continue to be captured by corporate interests.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

they're not mythical; they do exist and are the 60% of people who can watch a genocide being live streamed to the palm of their hands but still refuse to call it a genocide.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Embezzlement money for the corporate welfare division of Capitalism.

The wealthy are so wealthy that they get the big bribes.

Fuck the right wing anti-communist crowd are dumb as shit.... Actually shit's probably a bit smarter than they are.

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

What about fighting fascism?

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Buy me a jet! To fight communism

Fund my next island! To fight communism

Pay for my human trafficking! To fight communism

Cover up my crimes! To fight communism

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What if the American populace wants to be communists? Where does it say they can't?

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

The US military isn't supposed to conduct domestic operations.

[–] shirasho@feddit.online 7 points 1 month ago

Asking for money...to fight a system that asks for money...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Sounds like Socialism to me.

[–] Shindo66@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are roughly 32 million students from k-8th grade in the US. If you have that money for education instead, that would be almost 11k per kid. Over 200k for a class of 20 kids, which could hire like 3 more teachers per class. Or 5.5 million for a school of 500 kids. We could fund so many things and maybe give these kids an education worth having....

[–] CentauriBeau@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

They need it to finalize turning ICE into the Gestapo so they can start disappearing anyone of any color who doesn’t bow to The Fuhrer.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Assuming that there are 100,000 schools in America

thats

3.5 Million per school

if each school has a thousand kids, then its about 3.5k per kid

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

assuming that there are a million homeless people in america

thats 35k per homeless person, keeping them fed for over a year

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago

no actually, missed a zero

350k per homeless person

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do they have to use our taxes to pay for it? Why can't capitalism pay for it? His whole plan sounds pretty communist to me

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

We should investigate all of them, fine them heavily, confiscate heavily, put them in prison, leave their families destitute ("BOOTSTRAPS!"), and put their fortunes in the "America FIRST!" fund, to be the seed money for all the social programs like health care and free college that we'll have, INSTEAD of wars.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

Tell us more about how things like health care for all, free college/trade school, tuition reform, rent reform, and police reform are terrible. Tell us that over and over and over and over...

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is in the "Communism is code for my political enemies" way.

[–] courval@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are shitting themselves..

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"If the Dems FINALLY start running on actually helping the citizens, we're royally FUCKED!"

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Nothing to fear from them

[–] Eresea@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I need 350 billion for an ice cream, pretty please

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

His official answer to any question is, "I don't know anything about that."

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Communism is so bad that we're forcing each and every american to pay an average of $1,000 to fight it

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Are we doing the 1950s again? McCarthyism, was such a good time.