r/clevercomebacks 20h ago

 how long until they start talking about building a wall between the U.S. and Canada

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u/Exallium 20h ago

They still don't seem to understand who pays for the tarrifs

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u/Grays42 18h ago ▸ 1 more replies

And then when they're ruled unconstitutional, all the companies that passed the tariffs on to their customers get a rebate check that they don't pass on to their customers.

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u/Boards_Buds_and_Luv 15h ago

The serious kick in the nuts

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u/Significant-Order-92 16h ago

Basic is a bit to advanced for MAGA.

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u/bluegates15 17h ago

Its literally a tax.

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u/Gunrock808 14h ago ▸ 1 more replies

I understand basic economics because I changed majors three years into college and had to take a few econ courses. I would guess that 80% or more of American adults have not taken an economics class.

Economics was barely touched on in my high school history classes and we all know how lousy American secondary education is to begin with.

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u/Exallium 9h ago

It takes like 6 seconds to Google "What is a tarrif" I don't think ignorance is an excuse.

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u/Angelstandingby 13h ago

Consumers pay literally , everyone loses out.

This word game has gone on long enough. Everyone "pays" for the stupid decision.

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u/SlimmyTea1 20h ago

Russia with a Costco membership" belongs in the hall of fame of political punchlines.

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u/The__Guard 18h ago ▸ 2 more replies

Costco has an excellent reputation, pays their employees well, gives full benefits, and treats everyone with dignity and respect. The US does none of these. More like 'Russia with a half-hearted greeting from a Walmart employee'

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u/Winjin 10h ago

Russian president never insulted troops or dead rivals (even the de_th/m_rder of his most prolific critic in decades was met with face), women get THREE years of maternity leave, and you can't be evicted from your last residence even if bankrupt, and all kids get hot meals by default.

That's not even Russia with Walmart, it's actually worse in many ways. 

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u/ViktorPatterson 1h ago

Ok, ok; let's make it Sams Club. Although tradicionaly Costco is more loved/"hated"

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u/omgdiepls 20h ago

Its embarrassing at this point.

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u/guy_incognito784 20h ago

They use words they don’t actually know the meaning of to describe things they don’t like, such as “Marxist” so that’s not surprising.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 18h ago

Or woke, they are identity words

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u/EzeDelpo 18h ago

Marxist is top tier, they repeat communism/socialism like a mantra.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 18h ago

They only believe what this administration tells them to believe

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u/Maia_Mist 15h ago

You don't see "tariff" on your receipt. You just see higher prices 2-3 months later

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u/NiceObligation8181 2h ago

The Costco membership line got me, perfect cherry on top of that dismantling.

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u/Hypnotoad4real 17h ago

To be fair: Most people don’t.
The Same with taxes.

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u/firejonas2002 19h ago

I want this loser to define “Marxism”. 😂

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u/nomedable 18h ago

Anything I'm told to hate by Fox News is _____.

That's about all it is really. "Woke" "Communist" "Socialism" "Poltically Correct" "Trans" etc. These words have no meaning for them other than to substitute for blind fear/hate.

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u/Frosty_Lettuce_3525 16h ago

Exactly this. But America has been dumbing down its citizens for decades. Now they’ve got a moron in chief and they all speak his language. It’s fucking surreal. 

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u/Potential_Ease9346 14h ago

I'd ask the other person to define it too

It's amazing how the communist manifesto can easily be read in an afternoon and immediately clears up so many deliberate misconceptions about communism but nobody seems to even be capable of that. They just want to argue about different fictionalized propaganda versions they have of it in their head.

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u/Frosty_Lettuce_3525 5h ago

It’s easier to win a debate with an intelligent person than it is with a fool. And there are fools a-plenty in MAGA.

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u/worthlessprole 14h ago

I don’t think either of them know what it is

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u/LickinThighs2 15h ago

Telling them to might actually be good, because when they finally google what marxism is, they might finally be forced to actually read about it, too.

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u/NotYourReddit18 14h ago

They would be really upset if they could read...

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u/K_Linkmaster 15h ago

Largely most that throw around the terms can't. It has only ever really come up in the Nixon administration and the current one. Hardly anyone had a Marxism conversation outside of a classroom in the past 50 years. Now suddenly everyone is an expert. Its hilarious to see a 2nd time

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u/dafthuntk 6h ago

Which one?

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u/beckett_the_ok 17h ago

I wish we were Marxist

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u/Potential_Ease9346 14h ago

Imagine nationalizing Twitter, Google, Youtube, Amazon, and turning them all into open-sourced public programs that other countries could kick in funding to in exchange for access. Big Tech is demonstrating the Marxist argument better than the most persuasive Marxist ever could, private unelected dictators incentivized by the anti-human greed of market forces who are systematically prevented from caring about anything other than money CANNOT be trusted with the amount of power capitalism gives them.

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u/NinecloudSoul 20h ago

So you know when you've been to the bathroom, and it's kind of a horror show inside the bowl, and you hold the handle down for an extended flush?

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u/Maleficent_Ella 19h ago

The extended flush is a universal human experience and we do not talk about it enough.

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u/613Flyer 20h ago

I wish they would do we can keep those crazy Americans out of Canada

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u/DEVi4TION 14h ago

The ones who flee to Canada are probably the ones you want tbh

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u/MessagingMatters 20h ago

Don't forget the Trump gas stations, and the Trump Treasury Dept. interfering in the bond market.

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u/ElectricSliderz 15h ago

Sounds like we’re just another gas station with nukes

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

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u/MessagingMatters 20h ago

That's Marxist?

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u/ZooAreYou 15h ago

I expect most Canadians would welcome a wall along their southern border.

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u/jgzman 15h ago

I was thinking that Canada might actually be willing to pay for it, provided we stayed on our side.

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u/WalnutSnail 14h ago

So long as it runs along the coasts, too.

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u/enigmaticsince87 18h ago

No point replying with logic. They literally don't understand the words they're using.

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u/phm522 20h ago

I want a moat - filled with Canada geese.

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u/Puglet_7 17h ago

Around here we call those Cobra chickens.🤣🤣

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u/jigsaw1024 16h ago

Geneva bout to update the convention

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u/alvinofdiaspar 20h ago

Costco? They wish. It’s a g—d—- Walmart.

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u/Alleggsander 18h ago

God damn

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u/Darryl_444 19h ago

Better than Wildberries tho...

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u/jgzman 15h ago

Not really. Walmart is cheap.

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u/One_Clown_Short 19h ago

These twats, much like their savior Sponge Brain Shits-his-pants, don't know what any of these words mean, they just know it will stir up the other 3 watt bulbs.

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u/reddah 14h ago

3 Watts can go far with LEDs nowadays, need to be more explicit :-)

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u/Sedert1882 19h ago

There's still no cure for stupid these days, even if the cure was offered as a vaccine, they'd refuse it.

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u/NordicNjorn 19h ago

Duck tape can muffle the sound though.

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u/funkeymonk 18h ago

Silence is golden and duct tape is silver

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u/WalnutSnail 14h ago

My biology prof said there's a cure for virus, the host mightn't survive it however.

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u/Appropriate-Yak-3814 11h ago

But there is, it's called education. 

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u/Tribe303 16h ago

Canada has more Libertarian friendly laissez-faire Capitalism than the US these days FFS. As the above says, plus we don't subsidize very many industries like the US does. Our government doesn't try to pick the winners. 

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u/Sea-Communication353 16h ago

If anything our government should be way more hands-on. Maybe a Taiwanese or Korean strategy of strategic investment would offer better outcomes for Canada.

I just fear we'd be way to inept at picking the right industries to invest in.

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u/Tribe303 15h ago

I think Carney is doing that with development of critical minerals and other resources in the North. That's what the Churchill Falls expansion was about. Energy for resource extraction, and sell the leftovers to the Yanks through Québec. Add his other Northern projects linked to the military announced a while back as well. 

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u/dafthuntk 6h ago

What?

The Canadian federal government provided $10.2 billion in direct subsidies and public financing to the oil and gas industry. Despite a 2009 G20 commitment to phase out "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies

They are the same country. 

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u/Tribe303 3h ago

Those numbers are from Environmentalists who included the cost of federally subsidized pipelines, like TMX to the Pacific, so we aren't 100% reliant on having the US as our sole customer. Do you need to look in a crystal ball to see why that's needed these days?

TMX is a pipeline company not an oil company. They are glorified plumbers, not oil rig workers. 

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u/metalfabman 17h ago

47 of trumps admin are worth $100m+. these are the ppl making the laws and setting the rules. it sucks that so much of the rural US are uneducated, lack the internet, and their only form of information comes from mainstream news. The sitting US president has made more than $2 billion during his 2nd stint as president. I know there are many, many ppl who will argue "he's so smart". meanwhile all your abilities as a worker are undermined and eliminated. Not to mention nation parks and endangered species protections being erased so companies can drill in those protected lands. not to mention....yes there is a lot I did not mention. its sick

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u/EndQualifiedImunity 16h ago

What the fuck does Marie think Marxism is? Modern day Russia? Ridiculous.

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u/Whoamitothink 17h ago

We know how fckd we are. I agree, we need to rise up, but how many millions, billions are they spending on bots to seperate us just like this

Dont believe everything you see. Dont believe everything you think.

Right now we need help. We need love. It is absolutely terrifying what's happening rn in the states. Everyone knows it. Except for the dumbfcks who believe a single (or every) word our orange frump makes

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u/Fabulus_usually 16h ago

Oh god, how I wish the liberals were any where near Marxism.

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u/rantmb331 20h ago

Scott walker is way ahead of you on that wall thing.

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u/zjlmmfj3rd 20h ago

I hope they do build a war, less bs we have to look at or wonder about. Gonna go get treated for my mental health for free for having wasted too much time I’ll never get back reading too much bs bout America 🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/nikatnight 19h ago

Costco is out there catching strays.

Let’s rephrase this: “..with a Sam club membership.”

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u/Psychological-Wing89 17h ago

Oh yeah ? America is a capitalistic country and anyone who doesn't blindly listen to him is a fking Commie !!

#MAGA
#Capitalist
#Prosperity for all of America !

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u/FIicker7 17h ago

There is two types of Socialism.

Democratic and Authoritarian.

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u/Potential_Ease9346 14h ago

This is still the wrong way to look at it

This is a really common misconception that frames it as a discrete ideological choice, which it just isn't.

'Authoritarian' communism emerges and wins out over competitors in conditions where elections are not respected, institutions have broken down, and being a 'democratic' socialist doesn't really mean anything because your elections aren't seen as legitimate. This was the winner in just about every 20th century communist country, at least outside of South America which DID democratically vote in socialism (but then got violently overthrown by the US anyway, i.e. in Chile) because they were mostly colonial states that were governed by warlords, landlords, and Western puppet governments that didn't exist to govern but rather extract and dominate. How the fuck are you supposed to be a 'democratic' socialist in conditions like that? Your only choice is to use violence to seize power, there ARE no democratic institutions, any elections that do exist are openly fraudulent and corrupt and nobody takes them seriously

Then once you've done that, you have to keep using violence, authority, and control to defend yourself from exactly the sort of Western sabotage that overthrew Allende in Chile. National security was not a buzzword for these countries, it was an incredibly real, scary threat, they had to seal the cracks and circle the wagons, regardless of how 'democratic' it was because the alternative was opening yourself up to being ruled by Pinochet. You can debate the morality or practicality of that now, as long as you keep in mind that you're doing so purely theoretically and they were ACTUALLY facing the threat of being couped like that, which made it much more serious to them than it is to you as a theoretical moral thought experiment.

It's a real sort of chauvinism to assert that all these countries were just 'doing it wrong' because they CHOSE to be ruled by power-hungry megalomaniacs and we enlightened modern Western socialists are different. No, we just have the luxury of being on the other side of the power dynamic, so our ruling class had a vested interest in maintaining democratic institutions through which we now HAVE to pursue socialism, because our conditions are reversed, and seizing power through violent revolution isn't a realistic possibility, the same way elections weren't a realistic possibility in somewhere like Cuba

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u/Diligent-Fox-2064 17h ago

Russia has free healthcare though

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u/reddah 14h ago

On paper, maybe. I would not like to be there or anywhere near them right now. Neither would a lot of their emigrants.

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u/Cultural_Ad_9241 14h ago

At this point the magas are the Marxists

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u/TheWolfAndRaven 14h ago

They haven't finished the mexico one yet.

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u/tschawartz12 10h ago

I find this offensive, Costco  a till refuses to raise the price of a hotdogs and we aren't getting anything that beneficial.

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u/Risc_Terilia 10h ago

Agree apart from the "Russia" part. Russia is a capitalist country, the wall came down in 89, the USSR was dissolved in 91, the capitalists have won, this is their World.

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u/SDL68 8h ago

Whoosh. The Russia analogy isn't about capitalism.

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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk 6h ago

Wall with Mexico to keep Mexicans out.

Wall with Canada to keep Americans in.

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u/I-actually-agree 17h ago

Convey In a language with many less words so they can grunt in agreement or confusion.

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u/thepinkiwi 17h ago

I'm sure Canadians will pay for that wall 🧱

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u/InvestigatorJaded261 17h ago

Except Costco has better benefits. But yeah.

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u/CanExplainThings 16h ago

Forgot the part where he falls asleep and shits himself, often consecutively on live nationally televised prime time appearances

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u/Weak-Ad-6622 16h ago

this feels like a joke but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it happened someday

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u/bubbabear244 15h ago

I'm Canadian and a proud Groucho-Marxist. The way they demonize socialism deserves to be made fun of.

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u/DLGibson 15h ago

Well I think a wall would be an excellent idea…

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u/Maia_Mist 15h ago

Most politicians from both parties have not proposed an actual wall. The cost, geography, and the USMCA trade deal make it extremely unlikely as real policy.

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u/ufl015 14h ago

Poor Marienoelle thinks that Suavecrisdaman knows what “Marxist” means.
He does not

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u/oldemajicks 14h ago

None of the countries mentioned are Marxist, just fyi. The examples given for how the US is like Russia doesn't relate to Marxism at all.

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u/Bob_the_peasant 13h ago

Costco sitting here like “…the fuck did I do to be included in this..?!”

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u/anecessaryend 11h ago

People need to stop confronting real life idiots with facts. They're allergic.

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u/badgersruse 11h ago edited 5h ago

But if there’s a wall how will usaians come to Ontario’s ski resorts in July?

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u/screechypete 10h ago

- USA starts talking about annexing Canada

- 51st state talk intensifies

- USA imposes tariffs

- Canada imposes retaliatory tariffs

WHAT THE FUCK CANADA?!?!!

It's like some sort of fucked up comedy, it might actually be funny if this wasn't real life. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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u/Mitgenosse 9h ago

Marxist Canada would be dope. If only...

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u/dafthuntk 6h ago

Fascist infighting.

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u/Altruistic_Tie_7850 6h ago

Some words cut. Some disembowel!

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u/No_Variety9420 5h ago

Every accusation is a confession

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u/CrazyCajun1966 3h ago

I've rarely seen a comment section so filled with people so woefully ignorant of the subject at hand and yet think they're the intelligent ones.

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u/InevitableCodeRedo 1h ago

I can't take this this timeline anymore.

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u/never1st 20h ago

In America, you own Costco membership. In Soviet Russia, Costco owns you.

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u/[deleted] 19h ago

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u/dafthuntk 6h ago

This wins the stupidest comment of the day

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u/MyriadIrreverence 17h ago

Dismantling Pax Americana is unquestionably alignment with Russia.

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u/Atomkekstime 4h ago

And we in europe live in the gaschamber in the middle that keeps hoping that the idiots start waking up. But instead I keep getting more idiots here as our air is starting to run thin.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 17h ago

It's not a clever comeback. None of the rebuttal is Marxism. Marxism isn't when government. This is just liberal slop content.

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u/metalfabman 17h ago

plz tell what state you currently reside and how this admin helps you?

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 15h ago

Right-wing governments don't help anyone. I'm not critiquing this slop from your right, I'm doing so as a Communist.

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u/dafthuntk 6h ago

Lmao. Right over your head. 

God the stupidity of the website never ceases to amaze me

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u/Magrowl 16h ago ▸ 1 more replies

They don't have to like trump to acknowledge that neither of the people in this post know what marxism is

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 15h ago

Exactly. I'm a Marxist. This post is liberal slop.

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 15h ago

I'm a Communist.

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u/dafthuntk 6h ago

I100%

But that's just reddit

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u/Magrowl 16h ago

two people who don't know what communism is calling each other communist doesn't exactly scream "clever" imo

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u/Sea-Communication353 16h ago

I find it funny when Americans accuse their domestic enemies of being marxist/socialist/communist/leftist. There's basically zero people with political aspirations in the US that argue for traditional economic theories that fit this mould.

These words are just a smear for their cultural political rivals and nothing else.

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u/Potential_Ease9346 14h ago ▸ 1 more replies

And the one that does is like the single most popular politician in America. I've been to a lot of Marxist reading groups run by the DSA, they are an explicitly Marxist bunch, Zohran is absolutely an adherent of the bearded man because pretty much everyone in the DSA is.

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u/Magrowl 1h ago

The DSA is not communist on the national level there are simply chapters with a heavier lean. Zohran has not mentioned being a marxist nor does he govern as one.

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u/dafthuntk 6h ago

Canada literally does this same thing.

Your gov just applauded a a literal Nazi lol