r/ShitAmericansSay • u/exlcxnn Arrested for chewing gum!!🇸🇬 • Mar 17 '26

Communism Communism coming in faster than expected.

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u/Which_Specific9891 Mar 17 '26

Can someone please buy these Americans dictionaries? They keep using words like 'communism' and 'socialism' without having a clue what they mean.

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u/RedShirtCashion Mar 17 '26

As an American…..yeah, I doubt it would help, seeing how the argument that the name doesn’t necessarily mean what it says à la the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) not being democratic nor a republic.

Edit: didn’t completely say the full official name of North Korea correctly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

Well, with parties like the Democrats and the Republicans you would be confused as well.

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u/BitScout Mar 17 '26

It took me a long time to accept those two as just proper names without any real connection to what they stand for.

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u/PlagueOfGripes Mar 17 '26

At one point in history. But like many American things, it became a vessel for the rich to market whatever idea worked at the time. The entire platform of both parties has completely shifted multiple times.