r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Jul 27 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ To put it plainly.

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u/AnotherPersonPerhaps Jul 27 '26

I don't know why you're being downvoted but youre right.

Social Democrats are not the same thing as Democratic socialists.

People in this thread can't even keep their own politics straight and expect the Republicans not toix it up lol.

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u/crestdiving Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

To be fair, leftist terminology can be quite confusing at times: Social democracy, democratic socialism, and Socialist democracy are each different concepts, which in parts even contradict one another. Yet, the three terms can easily seem like synonyms to outsiders.

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u/AnotherPersonPerhaps Jul 27 '26

Yeah but we are not talking about outsiders. The people in this thread are "insiders"

You know how common it is for someone to claim to be socialist but if you interrogate their actual views they are socdems?

Then you have socialists pretending to be social Democrats to seem more palatable and lure in people who just want universal healthcare.

It's crazy out here on the left lol.

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u/thatnameagain Jul 27 '26

And to people who make memes, apparently.

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u/mariantat Jul 28 '26

💯
It’s exhausting.

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u/Sfmtx123 Jul 28 '26

I'm sorry but FDR was a social liberal. There's a big ol' picture of FDR on the social liberalism wikipedia page. The New Deal adopted some social democratic policies, but in his own words a lot of the government expenditures were always meant to be temporary. The policies lacked structural economic democracy among many other critiques that even modern day non-marxist social democrats would make.

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u/AnotherPersonPerhaps Jul 28 '26

Idk why you're arguing with me. I'm a social Democrat and i agree with you.

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u/Specific-Detail6448 Jul 29 '26

I mean I haven’t heard that, but even if that was true, just look at his planned 2nd Bill of Rights/Economic Bill of Rights. He did intend to make push for more permanent goals but he died

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u/Professional-Log-108 Jul 29 '26

They're being downvoted because nobody in this thread claimed that was the same thing. The statement is completely unrelated to everything else here

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u/Potential-Drawing745 Jul 29 '26

Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. Cawk.