These assholes wouldn't know communism if it walked right up and seized their means of production. Taking care of your own people just means you're doing a good job as a government.
The conservatives are calling basic Progressive policies "Communist".
Submitted 2 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
EXACTLY!
All those things that the meme mentions are something that the government should be looking into regardless of what economy they institute!
I’m paying $2,000 a month for a three bedroom that shouldn’t cost anywhere above $1100 a month!
I went to home Depot last night bought some cockroach traps, Teflon tape a plunger and a short length of stainless steel tubing for $30. What’s up on tables 98 cents the plunger was $4 the box of cockroach traps was eight bucks and the length of tubing was $15! And none of the prices make any sense!
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It means you’re not in danger of those people doing what people do. They’ve forgotten what people do.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Call progressives Communists and Marxosts started with Hitler. Even after the war it was carried on by Fascists. From Wikipedia:
Origins
The phrase “cultural Marxism” to mean a cultural attack from the left aimed at destroying society and installing Marxism/Bolshevism can be traced back to the 1930s, appearing in the 1938 July-September volume of “British Union Quarterly”, the journal of The British Union of Fascists.[11][12] The short essay claims the source of cultural Marxism is the “deracinated” nature of “city-dwelling”, and the “indiscriminate toleration-psychosis of liberalism, inherent in Social-Democracy”.[11][13]
TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cap top-end wages by regulating a minimum wage that can be no less than 5% of the top pay in that company, (and calling out shell companies so we don’t get a situation where the CEOs’ are technically “managing consultants” to avoid this rule.)
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
During the 1950-60s (the best period for income inequality) CEO pay was ~30x the company average. If you want to key the limit to the company minimum as percentage of maximum, something between 1-2% would get you to a good place.
TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I usually go with 3% when I pitch this idea, But since ole’ Elmo the South African Goose Stepping Space Ass was an actual Trillionaire for a hot second back there, I felt a modest revision may have been more impactful.
WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
edit: A possibly better option would be to tax executive compensation in a way that you don’t tax payroll. Though I don’t know enough to suggest the details with that.
Uh, that’s easy. Progressive taxation, above whatever amount the % increases drastically.
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This tweet is extremely funny if you’re aware of the fact that Richard Nixon also instituted price controls.
Nixon is, indeed, too far left to be accepted by the modern RNC.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
These republicans are shouting themselves in the foot. When the most milquetoast reforms imaginable get called communism, it doesn’t make progressivism less popular, it just mashes communism sound good.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
as if Conservatives arnt the biggest welfare queens.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
And drama queens.
njm1314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t Donald Trump himself talk about caping credit card interest rates? He was lying obviously but I do remember him saying it.
cannedheat@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This is typical. Overload buzzwords like “communism” and “socialism” and people think they’re bad words without being able to describe why.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
So? The messaging is easy to reverse.
Republicans want to increase rent prices. Higher credit card interest. More expensive childcare costs. Higher prescription drug prices. Florida can’t afford Republicans’ economic policies.
It’s literally the same game that conservatives pull whenever “the radical woke left” opposes tax caps (which don’t actually lower taxes) and it has a very high rate of success with unaffiliated voters.
Realistically though, that kind of messaging “Far-Left Democrat” in this kind of environment, where Republicans have destroyed the state and federal economies for working class people, isn’t intended to make people vote Republican. It’s intended to make people not want to vote at all because “both sides are bad”.
MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is obviously not communism… But also, just because it has large support doesn’t automatically make it not-communism
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The vast majority of voters haven’t studied political economy or social studies. This kind of bullshit resonates.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Communist price controls”?
America is really throwing around communism like a scary buzz word, huh?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
theres enough boomers, gen-x, and right wing millineals that still watch faux news
morto@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Those percentages mean that a lot of people want it, but vote against it. This is something that I will never understand
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The other thing is that Trump is not a communist, right? But he definitely has had more of a hand in crafting a completely un-american command and control economy than anyone I can think of.
danielfm123@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
But investment funds bought whole industries, destroyed competition and pumped prices.
Government looking to the side.
Jump365@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s right, good guy trump would never let his administration impede the market’s price setting mechanism. That’s why the admin totally did NOT use Euros to buy Japanese yen, or us bonds to control bond interest rates. And they definitely are not talking about diesel export bans to control the price of diesel. Good guy free market trump would NEVER do anything to mess woth good ol supply and demand! /s obviously
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
Direct price controls like are generally a bad idea. Often, unintended consequences make the underlying problem worse.
For drug prices, most are created with substantial government funded research. The government could leverage that into a major patent ownership stake, then immediately license the drug for generic production.
For child care, the government could give a monthly stipend to all parents. Parents could then decide, use it for child care, or quit/cut hours to care for your kid yourself.
I’m not sure about interest rate limits, that might work. But 10% is kinda low; Maybe someplace between 15-20%. And credit cards aren’t even the worst offenders. Pay day loans are much worse, with rates over 200% sometimes.
LuannePlatter@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
If only Americans could read, they might learn to vote in their own interests
Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why do you think conservatives keep gutting education. And all the lowest ranking states for education vote red.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
i believe even missispi or missouri was cooking the books when they said thier reading or writing was improving.