many might get annoyed about mentioning those talking points, even if its obviously not serious. I’m not accusing you of anything or anything like that, but by even mentioning it also perpetuates the “meme” those rightwing assholes have been manufacturing. So its kind of same thing as why you shouldn’t use derogatory terms even as joke or ironically -> it keeps them alive in collective consciousness.

The whole communism = bad and anything even slightly left = communism is deliberate effort to demonize anything that might help america’s working class and breaking the grip the rich have on the country. Or if it supposedly isn’t, it’s suspiciously too effective way to achieve exactly that.