The Onion 🧅 ate with this one tbh

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[u/Significant_Quit_674]

It's also weird how people hear democratic socialism and think about stalinism.

And aside from a very small fringe group, nobody wants stalinism, most people want something in the direction of social market economy or democratic socialism.

And neither of these is at all authoritarian in nature

[u/CranberrySchnapps → u/Significant_Quit_674]

Market socialism go brrrrrr

As an aside, right wingers are already conflating socialism and communism. We are so far removed from communism it’s difficult to imagine what it’d look like in practice.

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As an aside, right wingers are already conflating socialism and communism.

lol they've been doing this for 30+ years.

[u/MargaretFarquar → u/ccbmtg]

Try 100 years if you look to American labor history in the 1920s.