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TheRealNorth

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4. They are going to throw "socialism" around like they throw around "fake news"

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 13, 2019, 11:38 AM

Sep 2019

Best you get used to it, because otherwise you are going to look weak.

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Republican Ad attempts to portray and compare Democratic Socialism with Death Squads [View all] tomhagen Sep 2019 OP

I'd guess they got the idea from Turbineguy Sep 2019 #1

And this is why the term "socialism" should be avoided. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #2

They are going to throw "socialism" around like they throw around "fake news" TheRealNorth Sep 2019 #4

And we need to hammer and repeat and hammer that they're using it the same way... JHB Sep 2019 #7

The Wall Streeters are shaking in their boots TheRealNorth Sep 2019 #3

Weren't the death squads more blueinredohio Sep 2019 #5

This is the US. We don't do subtlety on the word "socialism" JHB Sep 2019 #6

Everything that isn't part of the conservative/republican agenda is socialism Sapient Donkey Sep 2019 #8

This is why our Dems need to say Social Democracy instead of Socialism IronLionZion Sep 2019 #9

They're trying to connect AOC to something she had nothing to do with TlalocW Sep 2019 #10

From the very people helping Russia take over this country! FiveGoodMen Sep 2019 #11

The ad was despicable. But I don't know why some of us are so set on rehabbing pnwmom Sep 2019 #12

And Venezuela crazytown Sep 2019 #13

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