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@uspolitics When did Florida become a communist/police state country? WTF!🤬🤬🤬

@normalguy @uspolitics not sure if this is why, but the political outlook could be influenced by all the older white folks who retire to Florida from the Midwest. It changes the political climate for sure

@justinf @uspolitics Don’t these older white retirees know that #WeirdOldTrump will cut Medicare and SS, if elected again. 🤔

@normalguy @uspolitics They’re fascist, not communists big difference.

@markmevans @normalguy @uspolitics However, communist regimes famously were a 'police state' / had secret police, doing shit like this. The Securitate in Romania, Cheka, NKVD then KGB in the USSR, the DS in Bulgaria, there was the Stasi in East Germany which was similar to the KGB, and so on.

@alextecplayz @normalguy @uspolitics So when authoritarians call themselves communists, the issue is communism, but when authoritarians call themselves capitalists the issue is?

It’s funny that everyone freaks out at the word communism but ignores the destruction done in support of corporations. I beg you to look into the history of what happens every-time a nation tries to prioritize their citizens over the foreign corporations extracting wealth.

Look at how the capitalist nations constantly sanction smaller nations for having a different economic system. How they fund and arm right-wing insurgents.

@markmevans @normalguy @uspolitics I wasn't in support of capitalists, I just wanted to point out that both communist and fascist regimes had police states.

I am equally against communism and capitalism. We can strike a balance between the two that is fair for everyone.

@alextecplayz then we are in violent agreement. My original comment was about someone calling fascists “communists.” I get frustrated at 100 years of propaganda making communists the bogyman while capitalists install dictators and plunder nations’ wealth. It promotes false dichotomies and binary thinking.

Communism can be authoritarian. Fascism has to be authoritarian. Also, ironically, all the authoritarian communists regimes are literally classified as “state capitalist.”

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Desantis deploying his goons?
“Now Florida's Department of State is claiming it suspects fraud in the signature-gathering process. In an email to county election officials, the department's Brad McVay requested that they hand over their already-verified petitions so that the signatures can be reexamined, claiming without evidence that those who circulated the petitions "represent known or suspected fraudsters," Tampa Bay television station WTVT reported.”

@uspolitics Deathsantis is a minime of felon45 and Abbottoir of Texas. Sending gestapo goon squads to intimidate voters.

@uspolitics Mediaq has NOT reported this intimidation of voters by magagop goon squads in Texas abd Florida. Media is complicit in maga abuse and treachery.

@uspolitics It's totally human nature to submit to authority, but if some fucking boot licker comes to my house asking how I vote...they're going to walk away thinking I'm very rude and still wondering how I vote. If they press the matter, walking away might be off the table because breaking legs is really easy and takes no time at all. Same with faces.

Floridians just roll over I guess? "I'm sorry. I guess I have an inappropriate opinion as far as the state is concerned. I'll correct it."

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That is how fascism looks like…

@uspolitics apparently people are surprised this happens in the US. 👀