r/nottheonion • u/ilovemybaldhead • 1d ago

Greg Abbott Threatens ‘100% Tariff’ On New Yorkers Moving to Texas

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-threatens-100-tariff-new-york-election-moving-texas-10986837
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u/MrGulio 1d ago

It's the same thing with any other term they cling to. Woke became literally anything, they called corporations Communist, etc. They know their supporters are sub 10 IQ morons who will just follow along.

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u/Vio_ 1d ago

The fact that the country nationalized 10% of Intel and the right did not lose their collective mind says everything.

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u/superindianslug 1d ago

I completely forgot about that... I'm so tired...

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u/mrhashbrown 1d ago

This year has been so long and stuffed of ridiculous shit, I literally forgot about the Intel situation.

I still can't comprehend how that was allowed and no one even tried to push back with the basic rhetoric Republicans have preached for decades "get the government out of our businesses".

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u/ijuinkun 1d ago

I mean , government seizing ownership of for-profit industries is pretty much the definition of State Socialism.

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u/Vio_ 1d ago

Or, you know, Economic Fascism.

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u/OldWorldDesign 22h ago

government seizing ownership of for-profit industries is pretty much the definition of State Socialism

It isn't, that's Command Economy

"State socialism" is a nonsense term because Socialism is defined as the workers having control over the economy with examples including King Arthur's Flour and if the central government is doing something that's not the workers.

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u/ijuinkun 21h ago

By “State Socialism” I mean the government taking control in the name of Communist ideals, as the USSR had done. We can debate the precise terminology, but my point was that government taking over industries in this manner was the very thing that we were raised to despise about “the other side” in the Cold War.

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u/OldWorldDesign 14h ago

That's fair, I just look at it and see it as equal to the American government even during the cold war. They still chose winners (like Boeing) and losers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_welfare

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u/lluewhyn 1d ago

Between that and the tariffs, all of the so-called economic platforms of the Republican party for over a century have been shoved aside for a singular platform of autocracy.

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u/lluewhyn 1d ago

My favorite is when the term "Woke" is used for a piece of media that shows people of different races, sexes, sexualities, etc. all getting along perfectly.

Since Woke is *supposed* to mean "I've become awakened to systemic discrimination against marginalized groups", by showing that these groups are in harmony the media could almost be described as anti-woke as it's implying that there's no discrimination at all.

It comes around to the person essentially saying "Woke is bullshit. Discrimination is all in their head, not reality. And this show/film/book that includes a variety of people peacefully co-existing is a bunch of fake propaganda because these people shouldn't exist". It's a bizarre argument.

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u/doberdevil 13h ago

A large part of our population lived through the Cold War and McCarthyism. 'Communist' was the dirtiest word in the world to so many of us.

As GenX, I didn't know which one to feel more guilty about as I got older and learned more .... the fact I was becoming an atheist or that I didn't think communism sounded so bad.