83 points

The word is “communist”, which is absurd when applied to this center-right politician. Unfortunately many people are so ignorant and have ingested enough anti-communist propaganda that they will believe it.

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I didn’t read the article and that’s definitely not the C word I was expecting. I’m too desensitized to their trashy behavior 😭

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They intentionally called her that so you would think of it, so it’s not you, it’s them.

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13 points

Government doing stuff is communist

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10 points

Unless it’s monitoring which bathroom trans kids are using. Then it’s freedom.

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3 points

Or monitoring vaginas.

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Did they know what Communism, “Bolshevism,” was? They did not; not my friends. Except for Herr Kessler, Teacher Hildebrandt, and young Horstmar Rupprecht (after he entered the university, in 1941), they knew Bolshevism as a specter which, as it took on body in their imaginings, embraced not only the Communists but the Social Democrats, the trade-unions, and, of course, the Jews, the gypsies, the neighbor next door whose dog had bit them, and his dog; the bundled root cause of all their past, present, and possible tribulations.

-They Thought They Were Free— The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer

It’s been a mainstay of reactionary politics since the rise of Fascism in the early 20th century. This book follows ten “friends” the author made after the war who were members of the Nazi party.

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7 points

The Dems can never be right wing enough to get the respect of the Repub party or its voters. I wonder if they will learn that before humans cease to exist.

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They’re just throwing terms around that they think sound scary. Trump keeps referring to her as a socialist communist fascist, which doesn’t even make any sense.

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35 points

Deport Elon to Russia.

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25 points

What if we just eminent domained all his shit lol

Never happen but after years of his government support it’d be just desserts

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Actually, the US “national security” laws are extremely strict and would provide plenty of leverage to lock that fucker up. But he’s rich, of course. This stuff only applies to poor people.

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6 points

Not ideal

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27 points

Like a shit onion, you peel back the sexism to reveal another layer, and that layer is lies.

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You think the deeper layer is lies!? Elon has been showing us all exactly who he is ever since he said (with zero evidence) the rescuer of the 12 kids trapped in a Thailand cave was a “pedo guy”! Like all MAGAs, it’s all lies, all the time…

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Like an onion, you peel it back and it’s still onion. It’s lies through and through

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6 points

You mean like an ogre

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If you knew the younger Elon, it goes back way further than that — talk to the people who started PayPal about how Elon supposedly started PayPal….

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Agreed. But many view that as the moment his publicist/image consultants lost all control of him.

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It was the rescuer of 12 kids trapped in a cave in Thailand that Musk called a “pedo guy”. Unless he did it more than once, which is quite possible.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

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That was what I meant! Thank you for clarifying.

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24 points

People itching to call her a c**t in the comments of that article. Which was the point of the ad - so chucklefucks could be all

Yes! 100% she is. wait, he they said communist? she’s that too

about a woman they don’t like

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The Republican Party is being run by a bunch of boys who never matured past middle school, and their candidate admits he hasn’t really changed at all since the first grade.

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I know a lot of South Africans, and they didn’t send their best when it comes to Elmer.

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