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19 June 2025

Stuff Americans say
Socialism 😱 part 2

Stuff Americans say

White text on a red background reading 'Upset at the lack of medicine, water, and toilet paper? You aren't handling socialism very well.'

Facebook mobile app screenshot. Page: "Our Side Page". Shared tweet screenshot (username redacted): "Ok how about this: No more billionaires. None. After you reach $999 million, every red cent goes to schools and health care. You get a trophy that says, 'I won capitalism' and we name a dog park after you." 5:47 PM, 3/22/20. Comment below (username redacted, 2h): "Sounds like socialism to me..."

"Distracted boyfriend" meme. Man labelled with American flag looking at woman labelled "Profit" while his girlfriend labelled "People's fucking lives" looks on disapprovingly

YouTube comment thread with French-language interface ("il y a 2 semaines"). Two comments. First (il y a 2 semaines): "France has the best medical care in the world, is a democracy, is freeer than the states in terms of countries with most freedom and have good taxes". Second (il y a 2 semaines): "what's going to happen if I open carry a firearm in France? You think I'm not going to get arrested? Fuck your socialism. I want real freedom."

TikTok/Instagram comment thread. Two comments. First (username redacted, 23h): "Cars = individual freedom; bikes = lib socialism". Reply (username redacted, 22h): "are you okay?"

Reddit comment thread. Jolly-Willingness203 (2h): "I get that you didnt know but this is a crime, at least in Australia, please makr sure you're well informed about laws around consent where you live. These laws exist to make everyone safe, your opinion wont hold up in court". Fragrant-Strain2745 (2h): "Australia, the UK, and Canada are insane socialist dystopias." Jolly-Willingness203 (2h): "Damn, I didn't know that, I'm a Venezuelan refugee living in Australia, for someone who escaped socialism I sure wake up with infinite gratitude to be living in a socialist dystopia in Australia. I'm glad you live safely away from all that, probs in the US?". Fragrant-Strain2745 (1h): "Correct, where I have free speech and the right to defend myself, without getting prosecuted. Unlike Australia."

Twitter/X thread. Graph showing "Health Expenditure per capita" vs "Life Expectancy" with USA as a clear outlier (high spending, lower life expectancy). Reply (username redacted, Jul 14): "Free healthcare means higher taxes it's simple it's not actually free". Reply below (username redacted): "Instead, people who don't need healthcare are paying for it in there taxes. Most of these free healthcare plans also encourage socialism by taxing the rich more to pay for the popes healthcare." 1:40 AM, Jul 14, 2022

Photo of a person (face redacted) standing in an alley between brick buildings, holding a small whiteboard reading "I VOTE BECAUSE the Communists were planning America into Socialism went..." (partially illegible handwritten text). Person wearing a white sweater and blue jeans

Facebook comment (1d, "Haha" reaction). Comment: "If socialized medicine is so great in these countries, why are they always begging for money for medicine for these little kids and babies all the time on TV"

Reddit mobile app screenshot. Post. Partial comment visible: "You utterly sheltered nonce." Brave_Conq (1h, -5 downvotes): "See. This is what socialism does. It reduces you to the point of poverty. If the UK and the rest of the world would get rid of their Socialist policies (you know, the ones we fought to rid ourselves of in WWII) then the world would be much better off." mortimermcmirestinks (9m): "Yeah, then these people could get?0.00 a week and we could make all the unemployed people starve to death much faster! That's a really efficient way to lower unemployment, mate! Cheers!"

YouTube comment (73 downvotes). Comment: "Sorry, but the truth is out: In spite of the liberals best efforts to argue otherwise, Nazism is actually a branch of socialism. They are not polar opposites; they're twin ideologies."

Facebook post screenshot (ASMDSS page, 44 mins). Photo of an older man with a white beard wearing a "U.S. SUBMARINE VETERAN" hat (eyes redacted), standing in front of a Christmas tree. Text: "I won the Cold War so that y'all could enjoy Christmas without socialism don't fuck it up you degenerate millennials" with skull, Christmas tree, heart and American flag emojis.

Twitter/X thread. Top tweet (username redacted): "Went to burger king this morning for a diet coke and there was only 1 person working..... In the whole building. This is happening everywhere in Ohio. Isn't Socialism grand?" 9:09 AM, 4/29/21. Reply: "?" Reply below (username redacted): "Americans don't know what socialism is they just blame it for every barrier between them and a whopper"

Reddit mobile app screenshot. r/changemyview. Post: "CMV: Ambulance Services in the US should be free". Comment by galaxyapp (1mo): "Stone cold response. If you lack insurance or wealth to cover medical transport and care, your economic value to society is likely negative. Death is very likely a financial gain for the greater population."

Forum/chat comment thread. fuhglarix (-1, 38m): "Here in Denmark she'd be a 6. And it's pretty easy to get a visa here!" [+] DesperateForDD (+1, 3, 35m): (collapsed). crash____says (1, 35m): "God, then I'd have to live in socialism.. pass. I'll stick with my ugly-by-danish-standards whores." fuhglarix (1, 26m): "Free healthcare and social safety nets...yeah we're suffering hard." shiningsea13 (2, 11m): "Viking blood embracing social safety nets. That's something that I've always found so paradoxical."

Tumblr/social media post screenshot on mobile (Telekom.de). Text at top: "my teacher taught socialism by combining the grade's average and giving everybody that score". Below: photo of a hand holding a school quiz/test paper titled "Article: Quiz" with a score of 77 circled in red. Questions about the Constitution (Articles, Judicial Branch, Supreme Court, ratification process, amendment process, etc.)

Reddit comment thread. Tactical_Grifter (11m, -11 downvotes): "I mean it is about communism what else do you expect". BlorpCS (9m): "Communism is about as far away from Liberal as you can get". Tactical_Grifter (8m, -16 downvotes): "Not in the usa it's not. They go hand in hand. Liberal socialism always leads to communism. It's the same principles and values."

Infographic titled "The Political Spectrum". Horizontal arrow from "Tyranny" (left) to "Liberty" (right). From left to right: Communism (hammer and sickle, labelled "Socialist"), Democrats (donkey, labelled "Liberal"), Moderate (centre), Republicans (elephant, labelled "Conservative"), Anarchy (anarchy symbol, labelled "Libertarian"). Below: Fascism (swastika) and Monarchy (crown) on far left, American flag map in centre, "Mob Rule" (raised fist) on far right. "Left" in blue, "Right" in red

Reddit mobile app screenshot. r/apple. Shoddy_Ad7511 (1y, -7 downvotes): "There isn't term limits? This person has been in power for too long". Emikzen (1y): "It's a democracy". Shoddy_Ad7511 (1y, -8 downvotes): "She is a socialist". nicuramar (1y): "She isn't. The Danish party she's a member of is center or center-left." Shoddy_Ad7511 (1y, -4 downvotes): "Her party literature has the word social in it". ApatheticBeardo (1y): "r/ShitAmericansSay"

Twitter/X post (username redacted, American flag and seal emojis). Tweet: "Teach your kids about socialism by making them clean the bathroom Then, pay them 10 dollars Then take 7 of those dollars And give those seven dollars to their sibling who didn't work I bet your child won't be a a socialist for long." 5:50, 05 Aug. 19

Photo of a bald man standing in a pharmacy/store, photographed from behind. He's wearing a black t-shirt with an image of a soldier holding a rifle and text reading "ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT SOCIALISM". American flag detail on the sleeve. Blue jeans and grey shoes

Facebook post sharing a Bored Panda article. Comment above (username redacted): "Scandanavian socialism! It's so great that your kids get to ride their bikes in dangerously freezing temperatures, on ice, in the dark of Arctic circle winters, in order to get to school BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD A CAR! Golly, that's just swell!" Photo of hundreds of bicycles parked outside a school building in snow. Article: "Kids In Finland Continue To Ride Bicycles To School In -17C (1.4F) Weather And It's A Lesson In Commuting" from boredpanda.com. Text overlay: "1000 out of 1200 kids in this school in Finland, arrive by bicycle"

Twitter/X thread. Reuters (@Reuters, verified, 15h): "The Vatican said it had denied a request from Mike Pompeo for an audience with Pope Francis, and accused the Secretary of State of trying to drag the Catholic Church into the U.S. presidential election by denouncing its relations with China" with link. Photo of Pope Francis speaking at a Vatican window. Reply (username redacted, American flag emoji): "I am catholic and I denounce this pope as a socialist. He does not represent my faith." 6:04 PM, Sep 30, 2020

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