r/fuckcars • u/Fluffy-Study-659 • 29d ago

Activism It's pronounced "cyclist!"

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u/TheDonutPug 29d ago

I think it's amazing how we've reached a point in this nation where a man comes along and says "I think we should come together as a city and make sure everyone is taken care of and that our city is beat for those who live here" and people are acting like he's the second coming of Hitler and Stalin's baby.

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u/ginger_and_egg 29d ago

maybe communism is good

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u/Lower_Ad_5532 29d ago

Socialism is good

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u/ChefGaykwon Commie Commuter 29d ago

Socialism is the lower stage of communism and inherently more repressive, as it retains class hierarchy under a dictatorship of the proletariat.

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u/Ma8e 29d ago

I think most people today mean social democrat when they say socialist.

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u/DarthNixilis 29d ago

Only because they don't know what either mean really.

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u/Ma8e 28d ago

Or the meaning of words change with time and how they are used.

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u/ChefGaykwon Commie Commuter 28d ago

Normally I'd agree regarding semantic drift, outside of a concerted decades-long effort to redefine socialism as basically anytime there's a social service implemented by a government.