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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump fan to Martina Navratilova-who fled Communist Czechoslovakia: "educate yourself on Communism"
A Trump fan tells Martina Navratilova, who fled Communist Czechoslovakia aged 18, to "educate yourself on Communism"Link to tweet
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Trump fan to Martina Navratilova-who fled Communist Czechoslovakia: "educate yourself on Communism" (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2017
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These people are fucking stupid- and delusional.
GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)2. And, hypocritical.
How many decades have they used "communist" as a pejorative against Democrats and liberals? Now these fucking fuckers think it's okay? We are truly through the looking glass. And, so screwed.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)3. She had to defect.
Use the google.
BainsBane
(53,076 posts)4. It's common to authoritarian regimes
not just communist ones. The key is the regime's power to lie brazenly in a way that signals to citizens that that it has power to define reality as it sees fit. An expert on authoritarianism made that point on Joy Reid, though I expect I don't convey it accurately.
mreilly
(2,120 posts)5. Ha ha, he got scared and locked down his Tweets
... bunch of cowards. I can't decide what's worse about these fucking simpering Trump fans: their stupidity or their smug little "corncob up the ass" routine.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)6. Calls himself "General Patton"; uses his poor innocent dog as an avatar,
as he's too cowardly to show himself as he is.
we can do it
(12,205 posts)7. The hypocrisy is astounding.
Johonny
(20,912 posts)8. how not to insult