• homoludens@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    social democracy = socialism = communism = USSR. Why do we even have some many different words?

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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      6 hours ago

      It’s to devalue the words themselves - if you do it fast enough the masses literally stop taking the concepts behind the words seriously. And stop talking about it. “Communism” is a great example of that.

      And pre-cald-war’s anti-communism propaganda (there still was anticommunist propaganda back then too) folk in the USA actually got educated (by their own independent citizens) what communism literally is, the meaning of the word, what it relates to and what it doesn’t relate to (especially ‘the political gov system’).

      I’ve noticed their president uses “unconditional” a lot (for everything against their agenda without any relation to the constitution or any explanation ofc).
      Same thing.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Yeah, we should just, like, convert to 0 and 1, where 0 means no or bad, and 1 means yes or good, depending on the context.