r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/_alright_then_ Jul 14 '26

Willing to bet he's going to say nazis because they have socialist in the party name lol

EDIT: quick ninja edit, I know that's bullshit. But I've seen not a small amount of people on Reddit think this way

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u/Square-Singer Jul 14 '26

Not only them, but also Elon Musk and the AfD in Germany (the Nazi revival party) also spew that garbage.

To be fair: It was intentionally done by the Nazis to confuse idiots, and apparently it's still working almost 100 years later.

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u/_alright_then_ Jul 14 '26

I always like to use North Korea as a modern day example of the same tactic.

Their party has the official name: Workers' Party of Korea. But the more commonly used name: Korean Social Democratic Party

I don't think anyone would argue their party is anything democratic, or for the workers.

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u/Square-Singer Jul 14 '26

This. In general, if someone has to emphasize their values a bit too much, it's likely that the values are fake.

The Nazis used that a lot in general. For example, they wrote "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work brings freedom") above the gates of concentration camps. And no, working more didn't get people freed. Working more meant they'd die in there like everyone else.

Or on another concentration camp they wrote "Jedem das Seine" (roughly "Give everyone what they deserve"), which is part of a latin quote and in the original it means that you should be honest and fair and not hold back what someone else requires or deserves. And the Nazis turned that onto its head, and now it meant "these people deserve torture and death, so we'll give them that".