Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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jun 27, 2025, 2:24 pm • 1 0 • view
These the same people that warned about George Soros?
jun 26, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Our greatest risk is the poorly educated. They’ve been chiseling away at public education since the early seventies. Civics, history and social studies were eventually down graded to elective class. Even in my day in the fifties and sixties there was so much misinformation and political censorship.
jun 27, 2025, 3:22 am • 17 3 • view
Do not confuse a socialism and Marxism. A socialist government does not aggressively take over enterprises but promotes free enterprise. Socialism is just asking the rich a little of their wealth to promote a more egalitarian society. The rich still remain rich but society functions better.
jun 26, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view
They know that they can't scare Americans with "Socialist" - but they've been scaring Republicans with it for decades!
jun 26, 2025, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Literally yes, they have been doing it for years! And with little clap back.
jun 27, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
universal healthcare Paid higher education Guaranteed minimum retirement income Poor being fed Children getting lunch in schools Wealthy paying the same tax RATE as the middle class Mixed socialist/free market economy How does this sound scary…
jun 26, 2025, 9:32 pm • 2 0 • view
They're are afraid a hungry child will get a piece of bread to eat that he didn't work or endure sexual assault for🙄
jun 27, 2025, 8:34 am • 0 0 • view
They don't care about scaring YOU. They care about keeping their base scared, so they can justify this fascism and count on support from that base.
jun 26, 2025, 5:22 pm • 5 1 • view
If they’re so afraid of socialism, maybe they should stop depositing their tax payers funded government paychecks.
jun 26, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 3:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Right on Jess!
jun 27, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Like so many other words, phrases or anagrams, they change the connotation to suit their narative of pure evil. antifa BLM woke morons. No, morons they haven't changed, just REPRESENT more adequately.🤔
jun 27, 2025, 12:34 am • 4 0 • view
Right
jun 26, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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jun 26, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
In college I applied for a Fulbright. My application came back, refused, with 3 colors of pen underlining the words 'feminist' and 'socialist' on my application. I've worn the words with pride since.
jun 26, 2025, 4:00 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m also scared of spiders. That’d work on me.
jun 26, 2025, 7:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Spiders are way better than anyone in this administration!
jun 26, 2025, 10:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Medicare is a socialist program and everyone appreciates having it.
jun 26, 2025, 2:51 pm • 9 0 • view
Socialism is not threatening. Fascism is.
jun 27, 2025, 12:33 am • 17 2 • view
Truth!
jun 26, 2025, 7:08 pm • 5 0 • view
Socialism > Fascism
jun 26, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
People who throw the word socialist around don't even know the true definition of it.
jun 26, 2025, 3:28 pm • 3 0 • view
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jun 26, 2025, 4:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly
jun 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
In particular an American socialist, which is realistically a social democrat and very capitalist.
jun 26, 2025, 7:32 pm • 1 0 • view
but you have cognitive capability. Not so for republican voters
jun 26, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep, it's pretty frightening.
jun 26, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
The crazy thing is how many people know the definition on socialism? Most Maga don't.
jun 26, 2025, 5:00 pm • 17 1 • view
Socialism is like the fire department comes to your house no matter who you are. You can send your kids to public school. The police come when you call them no matter who you are. You can mail a letter and someone will deliver it. I mean sure you have to buy a stamp
jun 26, 2025, 6:18 pm • 12 2 • view
Well said 💙💙💙💙
jun 26, 2025, 6:26 pm • 8 1 • view
Only more of this kind of stuff doctors housing food whatever
jun 27, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
Again, not socialism. This is the issue, most USArians don’t have a clear understanding of what socialism actually means. The provision of services is a social democracy.
jun 27, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
Socialism by websters definition is : any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods!
jun 27, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
Interesting that Webster conflates government ownership with collective ownership, this is generally the definition of communism. Socialism is typically when the people own the means of production. As an aside what Webster does highlight is that government provision of services is not socialism.
jun 27, 2025, 5:12 am • 0 0 • view
From Brittanica: socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources.
jun 27, 2025, 5:14 am • 0 0 • view
Everything has provisions! It doesn't have to be so cut and dry!
jun 27, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Mean how few?
jun 26, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Socialism is just anything MAGA doesn’t like. No clue what it really means.
jun 26, 2025, 5:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Socialism is everybody benifits not just the rich. Workers owning a part of ownership. Social Security, Medicare, and public education are examples of socialist-inspired programs within the US system.
jun 26, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
And national parks, libraries, safety nets, fire departments. The best of what we have, really.
jun 26, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, 💙💙💙💙💙💙
jun 26, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Saw this today and posted about the younger generation breaking socialist
jun 26, 2025, 3:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Socialist democracy does not scare me Democratic Socialism: Often involves working within existing capitalist systems to implement social reforms and expand social safety nets, like universal healthcare and affordable housing
jun 26, 2025, 6:01 pm • 10 0 • view
It works in many countries
jun 26, 2025, 6:05 pm • 6 0 • view
This 😂✊💥
jun 26, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
👍💙🙏💙👍
jun 26, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
It's ridiculous.
jun 26, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess I'm a democratic socialist.
jun 27, 2025, 5:57 am • 3 0 • view
Exactly! All we have seen first hand is that fascism is dangerous and evil not socialism. Even the people they call socialist are increasingly more popular than they are, so what will the consequences of that “insult” even be in practice?
jun 27, 2025, 10:16 am • 11 0 • view
Is it possible in your mind that both fascism and socialism are extremely dangerous?
jun 27, 2025, 11:23 am • 0 0 • view
NO. Next?
jun 27, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Fascism and communism? Sure. But democratic socialism (capitalist economy with social welfare safety net) isn't harming Norway, Finland or Canada. And that is what folks are calling "socialist" in NYC.
jun 27, 2025, 12:25 pm • 14 2 • view
They bank on people not understanding the meanings of these words, just that they’ve been taught their entire lives these things are bad by someone else who had just as much understanding of its meaning, zero!
jun 26, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
We will see, but do realize it isn’t about you or I.
jun 26, 2025, 3:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolutely! They’re doing straight-up secret police shit…
jun 26, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
FASCISTS ALWAYS MAKE SOCIALISTS THE BOOGEYMAN
jun 26, 2025, 7:07 pm • 4 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 11:46 pm • 5 2 • view
Add: the word "socialist" misunderstood. True socialism is wher the country takes ownership of ALL MAJOR INDUSTRY (travel, energy, etc) and even takes ownership OF THE LAND. These Democratic Socialist are just in favor of more gov provided services to help the poor.
jun 26, 2025, 4:01 pm • 8 0 • view
"Socialist" vs. "Democratic Socialist" - Chat GPT. True Socialism is UnAmerican, which is why any mention of the word has millions reaching for their ammo. Capitalism is what made us, all we need is the rich pay the same % as somebody making 300k. Wealth distribution is in need of a "correction".
jun 26, 2025, 11:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Disclaimer, Moose is not a Christian and Squirrel is more into nuts. But, Democratic Socialists may be putting oligarchs' livelihood at risk by attempting to put in action the very teachings of Jesus Christ as he stood upon the Mount and walked among the people of the land some 2k+ years ago.
jun 26, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
You might want to do some more reading. I suggest you learn how socialism is different from communism, and how the democratic socialist countries are doing
jun 26, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks but this is the entire problem, people hear the word "socialism" and freak out because they think the country is going to take ownership of everything. For this movement to succeed it would take a massive national education campaign, and Fox News is unlikely to cooperate.
jun 26, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
We are educating ppl about socialism as we speak. Posting on @bsky.app and other social media. Fox and so-called msm cnn msnbc CBS ABC NBC et al are capitalist corporate owned. We promote socialism and demonize capitalism. Capitalism=inequality, poverty,death Socialism=equality, prosperity,life
jun 26, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Here you go. Talks about what it really is as opposed to somebody's "perceived benefits". Per the definition below, true socialism is UnAmerican.
jun 26, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
This definition of socialism is actually communism. And as it says can be democratic. All large scale industry owned by the public. I see nothing wrong with that. You call it un-American. What is considered American ie. Capitalism is a failure
jun 27, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
Capitalism has been a huge success, peasants in other countries have dirt floors, peasants in America have cars and iPhones. A much higher standard of living. Here's the kind of socialism that is allowed under the US Consitution btw.
jun 27, 2025, 12:18 am • 3 0 • view
www.youtube.com/live/rMAJjSb...
jun 27, 2025, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
And since according to your info, the constitution doesn't mandate an economic system. We've tried capitalism for 250 years. It's failed, so there's nothing to keep up from trying something new. On the freedom/democracy aspect there's capitalist countries right now that are dictatorships
jun 27, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
Capitalism rocks. And there enlies the gaping hole in your argument. It will be pushing a boulder uphill to persuade a majority, and you can't do it the way you're trying so vainly to do it. I appreciate the passion of course, but as you saw big chunks of true Socialism are UnConsitutional.
jun 27, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
You have given zero evidence of "capitalism rocks" that's an opinion NOT evidence. I'm done repeating myself. You are a fauxgressive hack who has the money to plop down 2 thsd dollars for emergency. How much money did you get back in tax breaks? Since you advocated more taxes, payup
jun 27, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
So there aren't hundreds of thousands of homeless/hungry/one paycheck away of becoming homeless, massive debt from medical emergencies? My wife had to have a cancerous tumor removed from her kidney 2 months ago. We owe 2 thousand dollars for just the copay for the operation. You know zilch
jun 27, 2025, 12:35 am • 3 0 • view
GONG. We don't want to lose capitalism, it's made us the richest nation in history. We want free markets. We just need the wealthy and corps to pay their fair share, and correct the financial distribution as to "raise the floor". Your brand of socialism is DOA, is my whole point.
jun 26, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
It's not DOA. It's the future. Either through elections or revolution. It's going to happen, because the 60-80% of Americans drowning in capitalistic debt while falling further into poverty aren't going to put up with it much longer.
jun 27, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
It's made one percent of the population the wealthiest in history. There's hundreds of thousands homeless and hungry, most have either 0 Healthcare or go broke getting it. There is NOTHING good about capitalism. And there's nothing to prove that socialism and democracy can't coexist
jun 27, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
i have to find if anybody posted a thread laying all that out in an easy to understand way. don't mind about the length. as long as it's accurate.
jun 26, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
5 sec with ms google.
jun 26, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
MAGAs can't program a toaster oven much less Google for an answer they don't want to hear.
jun 26, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
thanks. don't know if i'd trust that search engine now. but i'll try a duckjduckgo search of the topic. again, thanks.
jun 26, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I concur, Jess. The socialists don’t frighten me. The fascists greatly concern me.
jun 26, 2025, 3:18 pm • 8 0 • view
Socialist, communist, Marxist, leftist, liberal, Democrat, evil and satanic are all synonyms in the MAGA thesaurus.
jun 26, 2025, 2:28 pm • 7 1 • view
Agree 💯🙏⚖️🇺🇸 ABOLISH ICE AND DHS AND THE PATRIOT ACT 🙏
jun 27, 2025, 2:10 am • 3 0 • view
Trump’s Gestapo.
jun 26, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
We haven't even talked about the domestic terrorist event where 4 democrats were shot by an Evangelist Trump supporter. Socialism should be the least of our worries when we have a crazy CREC patriarchy cult in charge right now. Johnson and Hegseth are members, along with probably many others.
jun 26, 2025, 8:58 pm • 7 2 • view
jun 27, 2025, 2:09 pm • 0 0 • view
In Spain we have a Socialist President and we’re happy as ever, economy running not only smoothly, but successfully, like a rocket!! All those arguments against Socialism are just tripe.
jun 26, 2025, 10:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Dems should turn the tables and embrace the word "socialism" and explain it's already the way the country functions, and how the wealthy and corporations take advantage of it. It takes more than a 3-second attention span, but meaningful discussion and policies are the way forward, not just slogans.
jun 26, 2025, 4:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Are the millions of Americans who hang on every word uttered by right-wing media and their Supreme Orange Leader capable of meaningful discussions?
jun 26, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
"Socialists" don't kidnap people. We take care of people, whether we know them or not.
jun 26, 2025, 5:08 pm • 11 0 • view
Exactly. The whole "social" part of socialism tells you that we build and care for communities and each other, and in turn, for the entire country. We govern and lead by thinking of the people we have to look in the eye every day, and those more distant whose needs still need to be met.
jun 26, 2025, 5:54 pm • 5 1 • view
Socialism sustains communities. Capitalism destroys them by requiring us to compete against each other for resources that would be more than enough for us if shared. It also exploits our labor so that we don't have enough time to realize that we are being blamed for problems capitalists created.
jun 26, 2025, 6:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Y is it surprising that they all have an XTREMLY loud allergic reaction to the TRUTH?
jun 26, 2025, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Australia has free public transportation many countries have a mix of socialism mixed with capitalism and it works
jun 27, 2025, 12:15 am • 3 1 • view
No, Australia doesn't have free public transportation, apart from a few routes in major metropolitan CBDs.
jun 27, 2025, 1:32 am • 1 0 • view
...as an American, I'm still impressed anywhere has free routes. It's the right direction.
jun 27, 2025, 4:54 am • 3 0 • view
Think a lot of people have figured out that having firefighters who serve everyone, public schools, clean water, and public transit, etc., are good things. Personally, have never met a law enforcement officer who was not proud to show his/her face. What's happening now is masked shame.
jun 26, 2025, 11:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Let's reclaim the word "socialist", like the gay community reclaimed the word "queer".
jun 26, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Truth of the matter,MAGA does not know or understand socialism.A majority of that voting block would actually benefit from a socialist admin.Once again it is the financial elites that vilify it and is now seen as a "dirty word" or used as a slur.
jun 26, 2025, 3:24 pm • 8 0 • view
They still think it's the 20th century when they could point to the USSR and say "look scary socialism" It's 2025, people are sick of being told their suffering is because of not trying hard enough in a country where "even the poorest can succeed", instead of it being an inherently flawed system
jun 26, 2025, 3:13 pm • 6 0 • view
The catch phrase was "communism" and it lasted until the Berlin Wall came down. Then the far right started on "socialism" as communism was clearly far less a threat than they claimed after the USSR fell apart. Now they are making a big scary case against leaning more than 2 degrees left of center.
jun 26, 2025, 6:55 pm • 3 1 • view
Make Socialism Great Again!
jun 26, 2025, 5:38 pm • 5 0 • view
Well. I'm scared of *some* self-identified socialists, but they are waaaay down the fright list right now.
jun 26, 2025, 7:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I never planned to live in a country where the word “disappear” is used as a verb to describe the actions of our federal government. 🤦♂️😖🤬
jun 26, 2025, 7:46 pm • 5 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 11:06 pm • 2 1 • view
Social Good Programs are not and have never been Socialism. Really, the left in this country needs to drive that point home.
jun 27, 2025, 1:15 am • 2 0 • view
You know it! I heard some creative strategies for dealing with ICE Agents(?) on Pod Save America & Hysteria today. Recruit groups of burly men & dress them in ICE gear. Take them to places ICE (or whoever the assholes are who are harassing people) is likely to go & wave them off. “We got this!”
jun 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
That and Communist are trigger words for the MAGATs, they don't know what they mean or what the differences are between them, they've just been programmed to hate both of them. Some even think they're the same thing.
jun 27, 2025, 12:28 am • 4 0 • view
Actually, I think that'd be the best.Damn thing could happen to us! What he's proposing would help us not hurt us!
jun 26, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Until I worked with the Danish in corporate world I never understood why they would pay such a high tax rate. Then I saw all their benefits less stress and more happiness. The amount of money we Americans spend and waste and look what crap healthcare cost of living and happiness we get in return.
jun 26, 2025, 11:25 pm • 11 1 • view
I was born in the wrong country 😢
jun 27, 2025, 3:53 am • 1 0 • view
I would pay so much in taxes to never have to think about or discuss how any medical bill is paid ever again.
jun 27, 2025, 4:45 am • 11 1 • view
Couldn’t agree more!! Bring it on!!
jun 26, 2025, 7:08 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm w/socialists Socialists: Those who want a more equal society by sharing resources and opportunities, often by providing basic necessities freely or at low cost Fascists: Far-right, authoritarian nationalist ideology characterized by a dictator, society regimentation, and opposition suppression
jun 26, 2025, 7:04 pm • 12 2 • view
jun 27, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
McCarthyism was inevitably unsuccessful under McCarthy. Neo-McCarthyism will hopefully fair the same. Fascism will always be the valid threat to our democratic republic.
jun 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 12 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 3:08 pm • 31 3 • view
I’m a happy socialist!! I drive on my socialist roads to my socialist schools followed by the socialist cops! I’m case my house catches fire, the socialist firefighters will put it out. Happy socialist would also enjoy going to hospital on universal healthcare!
jun 26, 2025, 4:09 pm • 19 3 • view
You forgot libraries 😜 This is the point to drive home to stupid ass BlueMAGA Liberals, I think. We already have aspects of socialism everywhere, and those are all things appreciated by everyone. Anything that's "privatized" (i.e. capitalism-ized, enshittified, monetized, etc) is hated by everyone.
jun 26, 2025, 6:55 pm • 5 0 • view
They are national socialists aka nazis
jun 27, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
You mean #47sFascists, right?
jun 27, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
These words are virtually meaningless any longer because they've been restructured in terms of their meaning to fit political agendas and trigger emotional responses from the mindless many.
jun 26, 2025, 5:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Who's Afraid of Little Old Eugene V. Debs? Nobody, because he's dead!
jun 26, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
But it’s a Taco Donny-like campaign! “I’ll bring down the price of eggs and gasoline!” MAGAts voted for the guy who said that government is the answer. They are equally as “socialist” as any socialist. I’m confused….
jun 26, 2025, 5:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump didn't say government was the answer—he said he was. And he has spent all of his time since inauguration dismantling government agencies and departments to give himself and his donors an even bigger tax break. Everything he has done has made food and fuel more expensive d/t his caprices.
jun 26, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed. But not spitting hairs, Trump is the government now. He is the solution to their problems! Even though logical beings know that he doesn’t care about his base; they are just means to ends. Regardless, it’s socialism in that he will solve their problems. And they love Russia. Why anti-social
jun 26, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
MAGA will be scared.
jun 26, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes they pull the communist and socialist card every time they get nervous! Never have I been afraid of those but I’m damn sure afraid of a dictator and a totalitarian government!
jun 26, 2025, 7:21 pm • 9 0 • view
It makes it more popular, in my opinion. They don’t care about nazis….
jun 26, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Socialism for thee.
jun 26, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s always hilarious when republicans try to call people on the modern left fascists or communists while their Gestapo keeps abducting people daily.
jun 26, 2025, 6:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Better to have a little mixture of socialism than a government racing toward fascism under trump and the Republican party .
jun 26, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
They are trying to negociate with 58 countries where to send the "illegals"they abduct from the streets.
jun 26, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Socialism is just another word for sharing. Insurance is socialism as it shares the cost of risk amongst many.
jun 26, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Welcome to the 'Christian' Republic of America. They're gonna have you on your knees, one way or the other. 🤷
jun 26, 2025, 3:11 pm • 3 0 • view
It's not the scare word it used to be, especially with younger generations. Me, I'm as socialist as Social Security.
jun 26, 2025, 2:22 pm • 174 5 • view
OMG that is the BEST!
jun 26, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I told a woman who’s a lawyer that healthcare should be free, paid thru taxes, like European socialism &she just about leapt out of the pedicure chair to say she disagrees cuz her husband is a doctor. I said there’s a private option w that but I could tell she was mos def NOT abt paying more taxes.
jun 26, 2025, 2:40 pm • 85 2 • view
She'll save more on insurance than she'll pay in extra taxes. Public health care doesn't threaten doctors' incomes. It does threaten insurance middlemen.
jun 26, 2025, 2:45 pm • 197 9 • view
Which is why our government is so against it.
jun 27, 2025, 4:16 am • 2 0 • view
Agreed. The cost of premiums includes profit so a socialized or universal Medicare would net cost people less and cover all of us. It’s the fear of change (and greed of those who hoard wealth) and they’ll just have to get educated.
jun 26, 2025, 2:49 pm • 66 5 • view
American private health insurance is considerably more expensive than the European equivalent, mainly due to the litigation culture in the US ie medical staff are forced to take out huge anti malpractice insurance policies which, of course, further enriches the insurance industry. #CapitalismKills
jul 4, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Worth factoring in that the reason insurance companies profit is that they routinely deny care. The equation isn't cost of care plus profits, it's cost of care minus huge amounts saved by letting people suffer and die plus profits.
jun 26, 2025, 3:03 pm • 64 5 • view
The business case has become profit over people for insurance companies, because there are shareholders. This has to stop for the care to be the priority. UHC’s shareholders are actually suing them for the increase in medical procedures now being approved (since Luigi’s message). That is fucked up.
jun 26, 2025, 3:12 pm • 28 1 • view
Americans rather get 100,000 net salary and pay 4,000 of health insurance, IF nothing like surgery or dental happens, than get 95,000 salary and pay zero for health care.
jun 26, 2025, 7:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Do you know someone who pays $4,000 annually for health insurance? My most recent monthly insurance premium was upwards of $1,500. I can't remember a year the total was under $10,000.
jun 26, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Premium plus deductible and co-pay, I spend this or more.
jun 26, 2025, 9:24 pm • 4 0 • view
That was my point. I don't know a single insured person who is paying anywhere near as little as $4,000 annually unless someone else is picking up the tab for their insurance. I've paid $10k or more just for insurance and then still ended up paying a few thousand in direct medical expenses.
jun 26, 2025, 9:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Americans spend approximately 20% of their earnings on healthcare. Those with socialized options pay 8-13% (generally apportioned through taxes). Where does that ~10% go??? Into the pockets of insurance company executives.
jun 26, 2025, 8:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Again, too simplistic, for many reasons. The care provided is different in the US and other countries, in part in that so many people in the US receive no care at all. Prices for services are much higher here than in many countries, as are prescription drug prices. Just a couple of examples.
jun 26, 2025, 8:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Of course. I've been writing about that for decades. That's exactly why the simplified claim that removing the profit margin would make healthcare cost less in the aggregate doesn't hold up. Insurance companies make and increase profits by denying care.
jun 26, 2025, 3:15 pm • 13 0 • view
In other words, removing (or even just reducing) the profit margin does indeed make healthcare cost less in the aggregate.
jun 27, 2025, 9:25 am • 4 0 • view
Only if you continue to deny service to the huge chunk not getting them. What you assert is that once you remove profits, it will be cheaper to provide healthcare services to 330 million people than it currently is to provide them to, say, 250 million. Maybe, but there's no math to support it.
jun 27, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Western Europe, Canada, Australia, etc. provide healthcare services to more people than that in aggregate, at lower cost, with better outcomes. There’s the math.
jun 29, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 1 • view
But throw in their massive administrative and marketing bureaucracies, plus obscenely huge executive salaries, and it’s clear why every country with a less profit-driven system spends less for better care.
jun 27, 2025, 9:23 am • 1 0 • view
Lawyers, in general, are not good at math.
jun 26, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
This. My sister and her husband, both lawyers have pointed out that they would pay less taxes for socialized medicine then they currently pay for their private yet not very good insurance
jun 26, 2025, 11:27 pm • 21 0 • view
On top of that is everything that ins doesn't even cover. Its all bullshit.
jun 26, 2025, 11:36 pm • 10 0 • view
Yup. Not having to pay for CEOs to siphon off 20m to do nothing would save us a shit ton of money. People would lose a lot of jobs, but that's more manageable than this shitshow, and it's better than ppl losing their lives.
jun 27, 2025, 11:53 am • 5 0 • view
Not having to work a corporate job just to have insurance for your family opens up a lot of potential for entrepreneurship. It really creates a world where folks have a better chance of pursuing something they love or even just switching jobs when they feel/see the need to.
jun 27, 2025, 12:35 pm • 8 0 • view
My whole retirement plan revolved around Biden winning in 2020 and funding the ACA to bridge me to Medicare. I was fortunate that worked out. Having the Felon return & turn the country upside down makes that path for others untenable now.
jun 27, 2025, 12:40 pm • 6 0 • view
Mr Bernie Sanders. Had an Angioplasty with Stent cost $200,000 plus Meds. Mine. Free including meds. But the Irish Government have a set fee for overnight including meals. €80:00. If you are low income you have a medical card. Or you can have private insurance. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
jun 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Average Surgical Docter in the Republic of Ireland €250,000:00. One years American university fee can produce one doctor after 7 years tuition. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
jun 26, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This is what I keep telling people. I work in medical billing. If you add up your annual premium, deductible, co-pays, prescriptions, and all the shit your insurance won’t cover (for me, it was “add-ons” for my glasses; I’m legally without them), look at that number. Tax increase WONT be larger.
jun 26, 2025, 3:43 pm • 8 0 • view
I will collect on 4th of July. A pair of glasses. Verifocl. Including frames included free eye test. I have payed €84:00 for the lenses to have photo gray. This included tax of €15:25. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
jun 26, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Insurance covered the exam and frames $69 or less. The frames I wanted her $99 so the store marked them half off since I had to pay out of pocket. Poly lenses was not covered nor was transitional lenses. I don’t recall the breakdown but I paid $450 for $600 glasses and nothing for the exam.
jun 26, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Legally blind* without them; clearly cause I proofread that and still didn’t see a word was missing 💀
jun 26, 2025, 5:08 pm • 3 0 • view
I prefer to pay my taxes to a duly elected government rathar than to for-profit companies.
jun 27, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
People are finally beginning to catch on to the fact that insurance companies are not needed, do nothing, and are a scam.
jun 26, 2025, 5:45 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm a lawyer and a lifelong advocate of universal healthcare. We're not all greedy and self-serving!
jun 26, 2025, 3:50 pm • 5 0 • view
Thank you!!!
jun 26, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Lawyer and doctor couple. My heart bleeds for them. /s
jun 26, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Greater Good means nothing to people. Wtf?! I'd have tongue lashed her so hard she'd be looking at the middle of last week.
jun 26, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I wasn’t going to ruin my Friday afternoon in a pointless argument with someone who struck me as a just a miserable bitch. She was bragging about her court $ award wins prior to this, so she’s a money worshipper. They tend to be joyless in my experience, and who needs that with everything going on.
jun 26, 2025, 3:16 pm • 4 0 • view
It is hard to feel morally superior when everyone's basic needs are met and we can't say they are lazy anymore to make us feel better. Imagine what society could accomplish if the general population was not focused on simply paying for basic needs. But billionaires need more things instead.
jun 26, 2025, 3:45 pm • 4 0 • view
Singapore has an interesting healthcare model that balances state/pvt sector, but results in really accessible and quality healthcare. It was a looong buildup though, decades of planned (and some reactive) incremental changes.
jun 26, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s proven that socialized medicine actually saves money as opposed to private insurance.
jun 26, 2025, 3:38 pm • 7 0 • view
You don't need to socialize medicine. It's enough to socialize the insurance.
jun 26, 2025, 4:39 pm • 4 0 • view
So I had an emergency event in Canada last month. Walking pneumonia, E. coli infection and a gall bladder gone bad. A week in the hospital, in isolation in case I was contagious, endless blood tests, antibiotics, X-rays, endoscopy and the surgery.
jun 26, 2025, 5:08 pm • 3 0 • view
At the end of a very long week I left the hospital with a bill of $45. All my doctors and surgeons were paid in full, all my very expensive meds were paid in full. In the US this would have cost me somewhere in the $50K-$60K range and even if insured would have set me back $7K-10K.
jun 26, 2025, 5:08 pm • 4 0 • view
I pay $6700 per annum. And for that I can go to any doctor, any hospital and get all my meds at a 3rd of what an American pays
jun 26, 2025, 5:08 pm • 3 0 • view
In fact exactly that happened in the UK when the NHS was formulated, the doctors were massively against it.
jun 26, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
You would think a dual professional family could afford to live in luxury regardless. But enough is never enough.
jun 26, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
So the question is whether her husband is one of those doctors scraping by trying to get out from under student debt or is her husband one of those high-earners who have become wealthy.
jun 26, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh it’s clearly the latter. Her reeling off the list of high dollar trial awards she’d racked up (since her last pedi) as a lawyer was what made me speak up about socialism in the first place. She’s definitely a Republican and I love triggering them. I get mistaken as one on the regular so it’s fun.
jun 26, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Here in British Columbia, with a population of less than six million, we have 700 doctors from the USA in the process of getting licensed. Most of these doctors say they want to be free to practice medicine, without influence from insurers about their medical decisions.
jun 26, 2025, 4:37 pm • 4 1 • view
I'm 55 and I've been an ACTIVE socialist my whole life. I LOVE to feed hungry people, even strangers...
jun 27, 2025, 8:35 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, because the suffering that people experience is because of capitalism, and thankfully, people of my generation recognize that. In the past, when capitalism appeared to work for people, it was easy to convince them that their comforts could be taken away by the scary socialists. Not anymore.
jun 26, 2025, 7:30 pm • 2 0 • view
I,too,know what I'm scared of: my neighbors being taken by masked gangs.I'm scared of girls knowing they will never make decisions over their own bodies,of people being jailed in the Everglades.I'm scared of LBGTQ+ people being unable to be self-determining, scared that soon we will become silent.
jun 26, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Socialism is an economic system where by the means of production are owned by the "State". Bye bye private property. "What? Some private property allowed? Cool, oligarchy." "We don't mean that Socialism, we mean the Jeebus kind". "Oh, my bad, I thought you were serious." 😂
jun 26, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
There are flavors of socialism. Just like flavors of democracy. In the US things like Social Sec., Medicare, SNAP, etc., are mild socialist policies to help the old, young and poor. We can do better, introduce more socialist programs and make life better without changing who owns what.
jun 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
The wealthy will have to pay more taxes, as will businesses, which they should be doing now. And fear of state ownership? We have monopolies and wealthy ppl/businesses /controlling/ the state right now. Plutocracy. The rich say what they want, the politicians obey. I'd rather see more socialism.
jun 26, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
No means no.
jun 26, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I need that on a t-shirt and a bumper sticker or 2.
jun 27, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view
I think they are confused. Socialism good, fascism and communism bad.
jun 26, 2025, 7:47 pm • 2 0 • view
We are the only nation ON EARTH where people can go bankrupt from medical bills. Socialized medicine means everyone deserves healthcare.
jun 26, 2025, 4:08 pm • 6 1 • view
Right maga sociopaths are worse than democratic socialists
jun 27, 2025, 5:15 am • 2 0 • view
Strangely, they love National Socialism Which is a 'kinda' socialism, for some
jun 26, 2025, 7:33 pm • 2 0 • view
It is treated like a bad word, lol. Just like liberal, Democrat and leftist. America loves a good boogeyman!
jun 26, 2025, 4:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Strange they never call corporate subsidies socialism
jun 26, 2025, 10:01 pm • 28 8 • view
Would be great if worldwide MSM listed corporate welfare recipients monthly, especially for companies that have profits.
jun 27, 2025, 1:24 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes! We always hear about the scraps the poor get but not the billions the big corporations get.
jun 27, 2025, 1:40 pm • 4 1 • view
Socialist are not the enemy. Democrats are not the enemy. We live here. Citizens are not the enemy.
jun 27, 2025, 12:10 am • 2 0 • view
Oh no, healthcare, childcare, time off, and worker protections. How terrible.
jun 26, 2025, 10:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah it's kind of a hard sell when all the things they told us to fear about socialism - being made to toil endlessly in a system that renders us politically voiceless and subject to authoritarian rule, with secret police and all- are coming true under the capitalism they told us would prevent that
jun 26, 2025, 8:13 pm • 13 1 • view
“Hi. I’m your friendly neighborhood communist. Since you live in our neighborhood, we want to provide you and your family with 4 dozen eggs per month, courtesy of Far Left Ultra Mega Lunatic Bloody Red Marxist chickens. You can donate $1 for their food. If not, you still get the eggs anyhow.”
jun 27, 2025, 1:59 am • 14 3 • view
Always call Trump a dictator, and then say, and you know who has dictators? Communists! Communist Dictator. You bigots elected a communist dictator. You know who outlaws abortions? Communists. Blows their minds! And none of them will do the intellectual work to find out how accurate it is.
jun 26, 2025, 9:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Who's REALLY afraid of Socialism? People whose profit model is built on exploitation, rather than cooperation. They believe that some people are worth less than others, and therefore don't deserve being paid a living wage for a hard day's work. Socialism Benefits All The People, not just the Rich.
jun 26, 2025, 5:11 pm • 20 3 • view
And now SCOTUS has given a green light to send people to random global hell holes without due process.
jun 26, 2025, 6:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Amen!
jun 26, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 3:08 pm • 9 0 • view
Kinderschänder und Widerling Trump
jun 26, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Had some great calls (phone banking) today with MO! Thank you for your work there.
jun 26, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
They're also trying to appoint a guy who apparently has no regard for the law to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. And the media sanewashes it all. The masked thugs are just doing their job, right? Bove says he doesn't recall. That's reasonable, right? Nothing to see here.
jun 26, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree, but they can and will use that as a cudgel. And sadly, a lot of people will believe it.
jun 26, 2025, 8:09 pm • 2 0 • view
A lot of the people it worked best on are dying every single year.
jun 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 1 • view
Our government gives Israel $4 billion a year which amounts to $11 million dollars a day. They have free healthcare, free college and they lobby our Congress to vote against the American people. Why are we paying for other countries to have a good life and not us?
jun 27, 2025, 3:26 pm • 10 2 • view
Amen, the Supreme Court just brought in another ruling and they’re not on our side. Most of them are bought. I’m so sick of this. Socialism is a word the wealthy, the government and the press have used to scare the American people. Obviously the way they’ve been running things only works for them.
jun 27, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
That word needs to be destymitized.
jun 26, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah- the entire "socialist" nonsense is old. We don't have a socialist system & never will- wish people would just lose the word.
jun 26, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WITH A REPUBLICAN VOTING BASE FILLED WITH REDNECKS, GRADESCHOOL DROPOUTS, AND DEGENERATE INBREEDERS RUNNING AROUND WAVING VOTING CARDS LIKE A GRAD SCHOOL DIPLOMA FROM PRINCETON...WOULD YOU GIVE A MONKEY A LOADED GUN ???..THERE NEEDS TO BE AN ANNUAL COMPETENCY EXAM TO VOTE !!!..🤔
jun 26, 2025, 8:46 pm • 2 0 • view
I saw a video of some guy trying to call ppl dumb for believing in evolution cuz things like his DRYER does not evolve. like...he really doesn't understand that only living things evolve?! HOW DOES MY VOTE COUNT THE SAME AS THESE IDIOTS?!?! 😭
jun 27, 2025, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
Just like a periodic driving test... Or drug testing... Voting affects everyone in a myriad of ways and if you ain't qualified through whatever testing method, you ain't votin' 😉👌
jun 27, 2025, 4:54 am • 1 0 • view
"Pinko Commie Socialist" has been a winning attack line for the GOP for many, many years. Combine that with "We're Deporting the Criminals!" and it may be a winning message again.
jun 26, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
IN 1952 HE SAID THIS! More than 70 years ago! (Which is where the MAGA mindset is stuck.)
jun 27, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I am totally stealing this bc it’s way prettier than my version. THANKS!
jun 27, 2025, 12:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Humanist nationalist!
jun 27, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
“OH MY GOD!! THEY WANT TO USE MY TAX MONEY TO HELP THE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES (and other places around the world) INSTEAD OF PAYING EACH OTHER OFF AND REWARDING BILLION DOLLAR NO BID CONTRACTS!!” “SOMEONE SAVE ME!!!!!”
jun 26, 2025, 6:27 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m not scared! I’m actually so fucking angry, enraged, frustrated, pissed off, throat ripping level, that I’m considering quitting the country 🧌
jun 26, 2025, 4:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I've been called a communist for having progressive left views my entire life. At this point, I'm BEGGING for socialism.
jun 26, 2025, 3:51 pm • 2 0 • view
The Right doesn't know what socialism is. They think it's interchangeable with communism, which it's not. They've never left their town to see countries where democratic socialism works well, like Norway and Sweden. Still capitalism, but more social services.
jun 26, 2025, 2:55 pm • 37 7 • view
The radicalized right needs a boogieman. Bullies need a villain to keep the focus over there, and off of them as they lift your freedoms and your pocketbook.
jun 26, 2025, 8:59 pm • 1 1 • view
I always think of this when the right goes bonkers about socialism.
jun 26, 2025, 3:03 pm • 43 13 • view
They think it is " Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot who killed 100 million or more people to advance their socialist utopias." It doesn't help that there are a couple dozen variants. Hit Wikipedia, there is market/non-mkt socialism, socialist democracy, democratic socialism, etc... We mean Dem/Mkt/Soc.
jun 26, 2025, 9:29 pm • 5 5 • view
Those were all communist agendas, taking back all the land, state run businesses. USSR was that way until they allowed the oligarchs in. Cuba is one as well.
jun 26, 2025, 9:47 pm • 2 0 • view
I know that, and you know that, they cannot comprehend the difference and call that "socialism". They insist that is what we want. It is hard to fill a cup that is already overflowing.
jun 26, 2025, 10:07 pm • 3 0 • view
A national socialist maybe
jun 26, 2025, 2:22 pm • 2 0 • view
They aren't trying to scare thinking people. They're trying to scare their base into devotion to the GOP at any price to avoid living in Stalin's Soviet Union in America.
jun 27, 2025, 4:10 am • 4 0 • view
Tell the masked terrorist to stay the F off our socialist roads.
jun 26, 2025, 9:11 pm • 13 1 • view
Preach! Don't like taxes? Then don't watch fireworks and go to parades. Don't go to the park, library, or pool. Don't expect safe food or medicine, air or water. Don't enjoy the roads, public transit, electrical grid, water and sewage services. Don't use publicly funded research (all of it)...
jun 27, 2025, 4:48 am • 8 1 • view
@mikecrapo.bsky.social
jun 26, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Whenever I hear socialism, I think of Finland, one of the happiest nations on earth. Sounds better than our current state by a mile.
jun 26, 2025, 2:34 pm • 4 0 • view
I’d rather have socialism than fascism. It’s weird to me that so many Americans don’t.
jun 26, 2025, 8:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Send me a socialist, please!!!
jun 26, 2025, 5:39 pm • 5 0 • view
“Scared” is the wrong word to use because that is what they want us to be. Angry and motivated is what we need to be to stop this atrocity.
jun 26, 2025, 6:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Reconstituting the old playbook because they've run out of everything else to fire up the base. They will never get more than 27%. A smart person once told me that in a crisis, societies always split into thirds. One third roll over, one third pretend they don't see, and the last third revolts.
jun 26, 2025, 4:04 pm • 7 2 • view
Dam straight...fascism is here, and its scary as hell.
jun 27, 2025, 11:27 am • 4 0 • view
They know they can't scare Us. They're trying, and are succeeding, to scare the folks that the thing which is AGAIN defiling our Oval Office loves. The #uneducated The #willfillystupid #maga 🤬
jun 26, 2025, 2:27 pm • 4 0 • view
#edit #WillFULLYStupid
jun 26, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I kinda l Iike socialists
jun 26, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
No people should be scared of their government, if anything it should be the other way around. I live in France.
jun 27, 2025, 12:00 pm • 4 0 • view
Corporations are scared of socialism. That’s all one needs to know.
jun 26, 2025, 2:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep socialism isn’t as scary as facism.
jun 26, 2025, 2:34 pm • 2 0 • view
If they want people to believe them, maybe they should act better than Stalin's secret police. Ofc what Stalin did was not communism, but they think it was. You'd think they'd want to distinguish themselves from it in some way but nope. Same shit, different name.
jun 27, 2025, 11:50 am • 10 0 • view
THAT‘S IT 💙
jun 27, 2025, 4:31 am • 1 0 • view
That's a good point.
jun 26, 2025, 3:35 pm • 2 0 • view
They can’t relate to you. They live in an entirely different reality where the scariest thing ls ever are brown people, and losing any amount of money over 1 cent, for any reason what-so-ever.
jun 26, 2025, 11:29 pm • 10 1 • view
They wrote the rules they play by back in the day when "socialism =communism =authoritarianism =Russia=EVIL" Some deconstruction of the equation needs to happen to change public opinion (especially for older voters)
jun 26, 2025, 3:26 pm • 5 0 • view
How old? I'm what many here would call older, but I do not need that equation deconstructed. And, as our current mess indicates, authoritarianism does not restrict itself to communism. Far from it. A social democracy would be wonderful, if the left-of-centers could stop infighting & vote.
jun 26, 2025, 7:00 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm old enough to remember the equation being treated as reality, but some of my age peers still believe it ..well, maybe I used "older" as a polite way of saying "less informed" Ok, "dumber"
jun 26, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
The only people who should be afraid of socialists are those oligarchs.
jun 26, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
THAT is the "trumpy dumpy NAZI REGIME" and the NAZI MAGA-gestapo Goons within..............
jun 26, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly.
jun 26, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you, Jess! 💙
jun 26, 2025, 7:04 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m a socialist…BOO!
jun 26, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, they do. And it has worked every time since 1st Red Scare, Palmer Raids in the early 1920's. Not on everyone, but enough.
jun 26, 2025, 2:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Funny old wor(l)d... bsky.app/profile/anot...
jun 26, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Say it louder!!!
jun 26, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
You should fear the new national socialist.
jun 26, 2025, 8:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Remember, the GOP built a huge infrastructure of disinformation to include Spanish radio stations that claim Biden and all Democrats are all socialists. In Florida, many Latinos escaped dictatorships that claimed they were socialists. This propaganda worked.
jun 26, 2025, 7:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Socialism doesn't scare me because I've seen the damage of unlimited capitalism.
jun 26, 2025, 5:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Perfectly expressed. 👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻💪🏻
jun 27, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
well said jp.
jun 26, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Magats are stupid. They don’t know the difference between socialism & fascism, or any other “ism”.
jun 26, 2025, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 2:54 pm • 9 1 • view
Right?! Parasites get out of here, that doesn’t work anymore.
jun 26, 2025, 4:33 pm • 2 0 • view
The Right can label anything Socialist, Communist or Marxist, yet somehow calling out Fascism or Authoritarianism is just too much for them to process.
jun 26, 2025, 9:48 pm • 13 0 • view
Socialism, in most larger towns/cities: 1. Taxes pay for streets 2. Taxes pay for water/sewer services 3. Taxes pay for fire department/EMT services 4. Taxes pay for parks/green spaces 5. Taxes pay for public schools 6. Taxes pay for libraries/community services And this is bad???!
jun 27, 2025, 5:28 am • 21 1 • view
The people who scream about socialism are the same people who scream about their social security payments.
jun 28, 2025, 2:22 am • 2 0 • view
Yup.
jun 28, 2025, 5:50 am • 0 0 • view
Be afraid Antifa will get you. They're everywhere, you know. You may be following some on Bluesky. 😉
jun 26, 2025, 2:58 pm • 4 0 • view
I am TOTALLY antifa!!
jun 26, 2025, 2:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Likewise. Also My daddy and his daddy. ANTIFA until I die.
jun 26, 2025, 3:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes. My daddy went ashore on d-day + six (probably why he didn't die and I'm alive) and came home with a bronze star. So yes, I'm always and forever antifa.
jun 26, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 1 • view
It should not be hard to admit. Knowing history.
jun 26, 2025, 4:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Same vile conservative shitbags selling the same lies to the same low IQ morons for 100yrs. The real crisis in the USA is one of intellect, as low IQ morons are now at majority lvls. Judge called it 100% correctly in the opening of idiocracy, so much so that it's terrifying. youtu.be/KCpxYa5N-OI
jun 26, 2025, 10:06 pm • 2 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 4:21 pm • 11 0 • view
I'm DONE hearing about "radical leftists" and the terrors of socialism. Either learn, shut up, or get out of the way. And for the record, here are just some of the headlines in just the last 3 weeks about the RADICAL REPUBLICAN PARTY:
jun 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 6 2 • view
Like, I don't stay up at night worrying about Bernie Sanders types
jun 27, 2025, 12:05 pm • 6 0 • view
I love my oft-maligned socialist country Canada that provides healthcare, dental care, education, roads, safety, etc. etc.
jun 26, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
You channel my brain so often, Jess.
jun 26, 2025, 7:10 pm • 2 0 • view
If things devolve to "socialists" vs. "fascists" I'm pretty clear which side I'll be on.
jun 26, 2025, 4:36 pm • 2 0 • view
This a good explainer for folks who don't know what democratic socialism is. Canada is capitalist but we have a strong social safety net to take care of citizens who can't always take care of themselves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcAQ...
jun 26, 2025, 3:21 pm • 6 2 • view
Strong? Yeah nah… pretty weak actually
jun 26, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Depends where you live, really. Seeing as most social programs are the responsibility of provinces to administer and many Conservatives are busy starving services so they can wave the privatisation wand and fix it all. Just like they're doing in Alberta and Ontario.
jun 26, 2025, 3:27 pm • 5 0 • view
I’m in Ontario the system is gone. No healthcare anymore. That’s why there are so many homeless camps. 51st state
jun 26, 2025, 3:30 pm • 4 0 • view
Pretty sure Mark Carney made big promises on healthcare. I haven't seen one healthcare announcement since he took office. And his Minister of Health is a joke. She has a degree in social and organisational psychology while an actual emergency room doctor wasn't even given a posting at all.
jun 26, 2025, 3:32 pm • 4 0 • view
He just put 14 billion into his local hospital
jun 26, 2025, 3:33 pm • 3 0 • view
Ford
jun 26, 2025, 3:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh, he'll make sure he's taken care of. And I was right. Carney made big promises on healthcare. Start writing your map and calling out their lack of action. I've already lost any hope of him being like Trudeau. He's looking more and more like Harper every day.
jun 26, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
@markgerretsen.bsky.social
jun 26, 2025, 4:25 pm • 3 0 • view
I’ve tagged Mark Gerretsen a few times. He’s one of the good guys. He’s whip now maybe he’ll help. Kingston and area have no family doctors and no ambulance services, emergency room wait times are the worst they’ve ever been. I’ve been waiting a year and a half for a neurologist appointment???
jun 26, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
As I said, where are the healthcare announcements? People have been waiting long enough and they need to address it now. Why wasn't it something he saw important enough to get done in his first 100 days?
jun 26, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
FDR was a “socialist”, a social democrat, who championed social capitalism He hated fascism, communism, and the GOP laissez-faire capitalism
jun 26, 2025, 11:17 pm • 50 4 • view
And Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex.
jun 27, 2025, 1:22 pm • 3 0 • view
A“f”ing men‼️
jun 26, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, these are ppl that are scary. VA 11 - vote! Special election on Saturday. bsky.app/profile/blue...
jun 26, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
When was that? I remember after Bill Clinton won & created the corporate sycophant group Democrat Coalition known as the BlueDog Democrats they wanted to rebrand away from Liberal. Under W Progressive became the slang for liberal until Hillary self-labeled as progressive.
jun 26, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I would consider myself a socialist democrat.
jun 27, 2025, 3:47 am • 3 0 • view
🙋🏻♀️ here!!
jun 27, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 0 • view
Oh no! Libraries, schools, and safe roads….
jun 26, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The GOP and the Right Wing Media have used “socialism” to their advantage for too long and we are now entering the Billionaires Gilded Age! Men with masks, guns, NO WARRANTS and we have not gotten 6 months into Trump 2.0. There is a lot more BULL SHIT coming!
jun 26, 2025, 3:26 pm • 7 1 • view
I think they can scare enough of "us" to ensure they continue willing elections. They've been doing it for decades. At some point it won't work - but I'd keep harping on "socialism" if I was GOP
jun 26, 2025, 5:28 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm Canadian... I'm quite happy when Americans call me a socialist 😆 I always retort with something like.... well, at least if I have a heart attack, I won't be putting my family on the street.
jun 26, 2025, 4:24 pm • 17 0 • view
That's literally what happened to my friend. Her father died of a heart attack in hospital, and then they lost their house.
jun 26, 2025, 4:35 pm • 12 0 • view
Such a needless tragedy. I'm sorry your friend had to go through such a loss... first her dad and then their home 💔 😢
jun 26, 2025, 4:38 pm • 9 0 • view
you know what's weird? the police in payday 2 have full face coverings, and those guys are the enemies they also raid your safe house, apparently being "tipped off for potential activity" masked units armed with assault rifles who invade private property without a warrant? sounds about right
jun 26, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
They definitely want us to be scared! Classic Nazi strategy! Today a pair of brown men were pulled over for nothing in Sebastopol, CA and hauled away by men without uniforms! Fuck trump and ICE! It’s unknown whether they have green cards. ICE has been working Sonoma County! 🤬
jun 27, 2025, 12:17 am • 5 1 • view
Stop pulling over. Stop complying with cops, real ones or fake ones. Put the onus on the real cops to get rid of the fake ones. No one can tell who is a cop any more, so stop playing the game.
jun 27, 2025, 2:16 am • 6 0 • view
I mean, absolutely, but the socialists need to get their ass in gear abt coalitions sometime soon.
jun 26, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Rich people getting tax breaks or anything is socialism. If we had socialism people would have affordable Healthcare.
jun 26, 2025, 11:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Salary, vacation, sick days, insurance for all the shitty representatives that were forced to pay, socialism
jun 26, 2025, 11:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Progressives appeal to the working class = MAGA voters. The fascists are afraid & therefore trying to instill fear in their base with “communist, Marxist, socialist” labels.
jun 26, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view
How many social democracies exist in Europe? Free childcare, universal healthcare,low/ no cost college...
jun 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 5 0 • view
Truth. They’re actually doing a better job of selling the benefits socialism, than the actual socialists.
jun 26, 2025, 6:15 pm • 3 0 • view
jun 26, 2025, 9:53 pm • 4 1 • view
ABSOLUTELY
jun 26, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
🔥❗️
jun 26, 2025, 2:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Facts!
jun 26, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
The town is democratic. A democratic socialist mayor MIGHT lean a bit liberal. But he has to work with other (Democrats) electeds to get shit done. Look at his fucking RECORD to see what he's done. He HELPS people.
jun 26, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Social Democracy know what it is, and how it can improve the lives of every American. Because that’s the whole point.
jun 26, 2025, 11:04 pm • 27 4 • view
👍🏼
jun 27, 2025, 3:50 am • 1 0 • view
Right? Oh, big, bad scary socialists who have desires for affordable child care, universal health care coverage, and free school lunches verses being kidnapped by pudgy, masked thugs and sent to concentration camps in El Salvador for life.
jun 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 4 0 • view
What if they changed “social”with “commun”? (I see that a lot)
jun 26, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
…not only is ICE not focused on public safety threats. It’s actively ignoring them to go after people in Home Depot parking lots. The New York Post, citing ICE insiders, reported last week that ICE officers are saying their orders are now “quantity over quality.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
jun 26, 2025, 3:50 pm • 6 1 • view
Socialism is anything left of killing the poor for sport. -I forget, but not a me-original.
jun 26, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
"The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: You DO NOT talk about Fight Club!" Trump:"Hold my Cherry-Coke"
jun 26, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. They think we are stupid enough. Some of our fellow citizens are indeed stupid enough so it gives them the assumption that we all are
jun 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Media: "He's a socialist!" Me: "Ok perfect, I'll vote for that guy"
jun 26, 2025, 6:39 pm • 2 0 • view
The regime clearly has no idea what socialism is. In their narrow one-sided brain, they have confused autocracy & authoritarianism for the same. I think many of the Fascist Republican Party need a lesson in civics and social society constructs before opening their feckless mouths.
jun 26, 2025, 4:16 pm • 7 1 • view
Funny how those who are afraid of "socialism" support Public schools School lunches Libraries Medicare Medicaid Social Security VA Police Fire Depts EMS FEMA Nat'l Guard USPS Public roads & transportation Public water & sewage UI SSDI FDIC Armed Forces the Courts and dozens more services
jun 26, 2025, 10:37 pm • 3 2 • view
Socialism isn’t the issue. It’s the code word. In this instance for “Muslim.”
jun 26, 2025, 10:00 pm • 8 0 • view
WELL Said ⚠️⚠️⚠️BRAVO!
jun 26, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, they do : they are that far behind the rest of us
jun 26, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view