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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social

2/2 The world’s most effective tyrannical anti-democratic regime, still calling itself “communist,” is using corrupt Mayor Adams to oppose democratic socialist Mamdani—who Adams’s & Cuomo’s buddy and ally Donald Trump absurdly calls "a 100% Communist Lunatic.” It’s Chinatown, Jake.

aug 25, 2025, 1:03 pm • 25 2

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social

Way WAY back in high school, I read a book by a democratic socialist named Steven Kelman about his visit to East Germany in the 1970's, titled "Behind the Berlin Wall", wherein, among other things, he confirms, or re-confirms, that democratic socialists and social democrats....

aug 25, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social

...have always been two of the categories of people that throw Communists the most into a frothing frenzy of rage and fear. (Remember how, infamously, the German Communists repeatedly sabotaged any attempt to join forces with the Social Democrats against the Nazis, sneering at them...

aug 25, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social

...as "Social Fascists".)

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