Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol

ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, Communism is illegal in the US.

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  • RustyShackleford@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it’s not.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, it is.

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      • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you had actually read the Wikipedia article:

        In 1973, a federal district court in Arizona decided that the act was unconstitutional, and Arizona could not keep the party off the ballot in the 1972 general election (Blawis v. Bolin). In 1961, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the act did not bar the party from participating in New York’s unemployment insurance system (Communist Party v. Catherwood).

        So yes, the law passed during the the McCarthy era … and was afterwards declared unconstitutional.

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      • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Someone better tell these people they all could be arrested at any moment!

        www.cpusa.org

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA

        No but seriously it’s an unenforceable junk law that no one has bothered to take the time to repeal that was never even really used in the first place. I mean, the communist party runs candidates for office to this day. Someone finally tried to use it in 1972 to keep a communist candidate off the ballot and a federal district Court promptly ruled it unconstitutional.

        www.plainsite.org/dockets/…/blawis-v-bolin/

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      • force@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Communist Party” and “Communism” are not equivalent concepts

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    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not formally. Talk to a cop while wearing a red bandana and clothing with a red star or hammer and sickle on it.

      (Please don’t ban me for suggesting suicide, I don’t actually want them to do this)

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      • Arcity@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That isn’t communist, that is larping as a neo-soviet

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    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its literally illegal to be an anarchist if youre an immigrant, even a citizen.

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      • Arcity@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No shit, to be an anarchist is to go against hierarchies like the police state.

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      • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        source?

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