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    ‘she believed “titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy.”

    “And one by one by one, they have been silent, they have been … feckless,” Harris said. “It’s not like they’re going to lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons.”’

    Lmao oh my god corporations bent at the knee immediately for a chance to make an extra maybe some of that communism would tight right about now, eh cop?

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    I can’t believe anyone would take the opposite of ‘communism is when the government does stuff’ to unironically say ‘democracy is when capital gets to decide stuff’.

    Astounding stuff.

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        I mean it reads like she was saying people compared the strength of the U.S.'s democracy to that of communist dictators strength.

        As in the dictators had strong governments, and the U.S.'s democracy was just as strong in her mind.

        She was trying to compare Trump to a tyrant and clearly showing that democracy was falling apart.

        At no time in this text would I think she was actually calling Trump a communist.

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          Socialist countries have more comprehensively effective democracy than the US ever had, it’s just naked and absurd anti-communism from Harris.

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          Dawg i don’t know what’s wrong with you

          We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump

          “THAT’S WHAT WE’RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW IN TRUMP” with the direct antecedent being “communist dictators.” “That” being a “comparison between capitalist democracy and communist dictators” doesn’t make any fucking sense in that context. She’s calling him a communist dictator.

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    “Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,””

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      “The obscenely wealthy ‘titans’ who funded Trump’s election campaign and attended his inauguration are not speaking up.”

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    Ugh, if he was a communist dictator we would be getting, bare minimum, a handful of cool social welfare programs to go along with the dictatorial oppression

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    Same energy as when Americans see empty grocery store shelves and go “OMG THIS IS LIKE SOVIET RUSSIA!!!” Like, no you idiot, this is like capitalist America. Where you’re living in. Where the 100% capitalist, anticommunist policy has failed.

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    Is it only me or does Americans always need some sort of label to judge people, instead of just basic morals?

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    The fact that Harris trusted mega corporations to protect against Trump makes me very disappointed in her. I assume she actually does know the difference between communism and fascism and flubbed her words, but maybe not.

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      She’s not flubbing her words, she’s a committed liberal and is thus more aligned with fascism and against communism.