• Drusas@fedia.io
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        Because she didn’t call him a communist. She likened him to communist dictators and everyone decided to latch onto the communist part rather than the dictator part.

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        libs gonna lib

        I recently saw a few .worlders using that quote to say that she’s not calling him a communist, when she literally did. I’m so glad I blocked that instance.

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      It’s pretty amazing how people are trying so hard to pretend that her calling Trump a communist is not her calling Trump a communist.

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        Right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump.

        The line about communist dictators is an allegory to tyrants that the general public will be familiar with.

        She’s illustrating her point. In context, her words are reasonable.

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          Her words are reasonable when she’s calling him a dictator, and a tyrant. Her words are not reasonable when she calls him a communist, which he clearly isn’t.

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            I don’t read this as calling him a communist. My interpretation is she is evoking the imagery of a communist dictator since that is the type of tyrant most Americans are familiar with.

            This was in a spoken interview, not a written piece. The threshold for reasonable nitpicking should be higher in this context.

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              Yeah, and I saw the clip, and it was clear that she was calling him a communist dictator. The cope on this from libs is amazingly bad.

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                I’ve seen the clip as well. Please feel free to elaborate on how you reached this conclusion. To me it’s clear she’s evoking the imagery of a communist dictator as an example of a tyrant.

                I do think the threshold for nitpicking should be higher here due to it being a spoken interview. Why does this matter so much to you?

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                  Please feel free to elaborate on how you reached this conclusion.

                  Sure thing: When I hear her say that he’s a communist dictator, I come to the conclusion that she called him a communist dictator.

                  Why does this matter so much to you?

                  Why does it matter to me when libs continuously lie? Because I value honsest conversation. It also has a strong impact on things.

                  Remember when libs openly lied about how bad Biden’s decline was? Because we could have had a real fight against Trump, but their lies cost us that.

                  And remember when libs lied about Gaza? Because we could have saved lives, while keeping Trump out of office, but their lies cost us that.

                  And remember when libs lied about Harris during the election? Because we could have had a real election, where the voters got to decide who they wanted, but their lies cost us that.

                  And now we have Trump in office, people being killed and kidnapped off the street. And yet libs still can’t stop lying about how bad their politicans are.

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      So one desperate for attention wannabe does it, then most Dems do it? Pardon me for calling that a stretch.

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        The meme is literally Kamala and Trump calling each other communists.

        Where in your ass are you pulling “most Dems” from?

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        According to the article, it’s two very prominent DNC members, one of which was the fucking presidential candidate last year. Neither the article nor OP say that “most Dems” do that. It does seem to be a common stance in the DNC leadership, though, which is arguably more important than whatever most Dems do, say or want.