• takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    The fact that you associate rationing to communism speaks for itself.

    I don’t have problem with just communism itself, but so far the Marxist-Leninist version is the one that was implemented around the world and unfortunately it comes with totalitarianism and heavy corruption, which delivers the opposite of what it promised.

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      2 days ago

      The reference is literally in the tweet, Newsom calls trump “Chairman Donald” which should be a fairly obvious dogwhistle.

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        It’s that communistic term though?

        Stalin wasn’t chairman (he was General Secretary), Kim Jong Un isn’t chairman (well he is a chairman on national defense commission), there is a chairman on the board of directors which this cabinet looks like one.

        Yeah. I know this was most likely dig like he wants to be like Xi, but I don’t think on it’s much about communism as he would love to have power to micromanage everything.

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          If I had to guess the origin, it would be Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung), who founded the Chinese Communist Party, and is often referred to as “Chairman Mao”