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DenaliDemocrat

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12. Yeah, you're like the kid that gets a Hindu

Reply to 31j20b3 (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 09:42 PM

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Swastika and runs around telling everyone WHY it’s not a REAL Nazi swastika.

Call yourself a progressive, a blue dog, or a fricking potato - but self proclaiming to be a “socialist - anything” is a Bad. Fucking. Idea.

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Democratic Socialism in the U.S. [View all] LiberalArkie Thursday OP

Socializing essentials -- kinda like the 1956 Republican Party Platform. pat_k Thursday #1

This is a list of Government programs intended to do social goods, 31j20b3 Thursday #2

Deleted pat_k Thursday #3

Thank-you. lostincalifornia Thursday #5

This is a losing battle DenaliDemocrat Thursday #4

I don't think stiffling progressive Social Democratic ideas is actually Democratic 31j20b3 Thursday #6

Yeah, you're like the kid that gets a Hindu DenaliDemocrat Thursday #12

I agree. What's wrong with saying "I'm a liberal Democrat who believes in regulation, lapucelle Thursday #8

Exactly... if you're explaining and defining... you're losing! QueerDuck Thursday #9

It goes something like this: "Well, I'm a socialist, but not a socialist-socialist..." QueerDuck Thursday #11

That's not socialism, democratic or otherwise. It's a mixed capitalist economy. lapucelle Thursday #7

That's Social Democracy. SocialDemocrat61 Thursday #10

Those things aren't socialism creeksneakers2 Friday #13