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by dpark 198 days ago
I would agree that government run stores falls into the communist playbook. Despite the communism boogie man, though, I don’t think supporting a couple of communist policies strictly makes a person a communist.

Trump sent a bunch of government checks to people during Covid and no one called him communist for this.

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> Trump sent a bunch of government checks to people during Covid and no one called him communist for this.

Giving people money on a temporary basis is the opposite of the government opportunistically taking over areas of the market.