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Funny thing.

Time was founded by the son of a Chinese missionary. Henry Luce was a huge advocate for Nationalist China and an enemy of Mao and the Communists.

To paraphrase Marilyn Monroe.

“If you aren’t willing to penguin on Arbor Day, you don’t deserve to penguin on Halloween.”

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Car services.

Because if you have money to get stupid, you have money to be smart.

This is why the Right keeps getting stronger and stronger and the Left keeps failing.

Back in the day, guy named Jerry Falwell came up with a simple plan to become a power broker. He had a bunch of churches behind him and he gave them their marching orders. If twenty people showed up at the local GOP club for the monthly meetings, his ‘Moral Majority’ would show up with fifty. They grabbed up little jobs like county clerk in towns you never heard of, but every year they had more and more power. eventually they were on top.

Meanwhile, you’re still blinding yourself with the idea of “an actual Left opposition.”

Here’s another tidbit for you to chew on. Back in 1860, escaped slave Frederick Douglas decided not to support the candidate who promised to back abolition. He went with Lincoln, because Douglas figured that a leader who won the election and was willing to listen was better than a committed candidate who was out of power.

Wrong.

Waiting for the perfect candidate is how we ended up here in the first place.

I was educated by some old school Communists who’d gone to Spain in the 1930s and gotten blacklisted in the 1950s.

One story they told was how in 1968 they were telling people to vote for Hubert Humphrey. The younger folks thought he was no better than Nixon, but my teachers knew that Nixon would be much worse.

What makes you think there will even be elections in 2028 if Trump keeps control of the House and Senate?

Here’s a thought.

I said explicitly that the Nazis got beaten by people uniting behind a leadership they didn’t 100% agree with.

Your reaction was to demand that I 100% agree with you about something that happened before either of us was born.

Maybe you’d do better to stop caring about the past and start focusing on what is going on right now.

Why don’t you tell us all, explicitly, why my opinion of Stalin matters right now?

If you’re going to put words in my mouth, please add a side of nachos?

Where did I say the USSR wasn’t a big part of the War?

Quote the exact words.

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Back in the day, a writer named Alfred Bester created a radio character who only spoke gibberish. One day he went to the producer and aske why they’d had the character say ‘woo-woo-woo’ when he’d written ‘blagga-blagga?’

The producers told him that they knew he was a sleazy New York Jew boy and he’d try to sneak in some dirty words into their scripts.

In the next script he introduced a character named Mr. Merkin.

Let’s put aside the fact that Stalin not only trusted Hitler, he trusted Hitler so much that he executed people who reported that Hitler was planning on invading Russia. Let’s put aside the fact that Stalin crippled his own army by killing his own Generals. Let’s put aside the fact that Stalin’s rule in the USSR was so bad that it resulted in countries near him going Fascist out of fear of Communism.

In WW2 all sorts of different people put aside their differences and united. They might have thought that Winston Churchill was a bastard, but he was the one that had the best chance of stopping Hitler.

Getting behind the people who already had an organization was how they stopped the Nazis.

He literally said that gun deaths are the price we have to pay for a free society.

I geuss the medal is for his contribution to that cause??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied

Horst Wessel was a Nazi street fighter of no great distinction. He died in a brawl with some other thugs his landlady had hired.

Because his death played into Party propaganda, he was posthumously raised to secular sainthood. The ballad of his death became a favorite Nazi marching song.

It’s cute that you think there was a time when you had freedom and anonymity.

J. Edgar Hoover was building files on people starting in the Emma Goldman era.

Not entirely absurd.

I mean, it wouldn’t be weather satellites, but the ancient Romans could ahve built hot air balloons.

Check out a novel, “The Guns Above” by Robyn Bennis. Napoleonic war with air ships.

I have repeated this story numerous times.

After that tape came out, a conservative woman went on The View TV show to defend Trump.

One of the panelists kept using the phrase ‘pussy.’

The conservative woman asked her to please stop using that offensive term.

You mean a ‘truck?’