I'm pretty sure back during The Great War you just called your political opponents hermaphrodites and threw them in jail. And post 1917 it kicked into overdrive, and everyone was suddenly a Bolshevik murderer out to eat a baby or something.
It’s got that old school War on Terror Energy, back when we used to accuse Quakers of being in league with Saddam Hussein.
as a dirty gen z child, i keep thinking i've heard the end of the wacky bullshit that happened after 9/11 but there always seems to be some new bullshit about it that makes it even wackier
The good old days. I remember listening to an interview with the CEO of either Bechtel or Parsons claiming that anyone marching against the invasion was enabling Saddam.
Life sucked before 9/11, but it sucked in very different ways. There's no point trying to explain it. The country went entirely off the deep end in 2001 in so many big ways and subtle ways.
The coolest thing in the world is relabeling anti-war sentiment as Tankie-ism.
It's got that old school War on Terror Energy, back when we used to accuse Quakers of being in league with Saddam Hussein.
they did it with "commie" and Vietnam. Hell I'm pretty sure they did it with "anarchist" and The Great War.
Debs was thrown in jail for opposing the Great War.
I'm pretty sure back during The Great War you just called your political opponents hermaphrodites and threw them in jail. And post 1917 it kicked into overdrive, and everyone was suddenly a Bolshevik murderer out to eat a baby or something.
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as a dirty gen z child, i keep thinking i've heard the end of the wacky bullshit that happened after 9/11 but there always seems to be some new bullshit about it that makes it even wackier
The good old days. I remember listening to an interview with the CEO of either Bechtel or Parsons claiming that anyone marching against the invasion was enabling Saddam.
Life sucked before 9/11, but it sucked in very different ways. There's no point trying to explain it. The country went entirely off the deep end in 2001 in so many big ways and subtle ways.
Honestly I am absolutely horrified to imagine a United States that wasn't "off the deep end" 25 years ago
Smart move on not being born for it tbqh.
Except even dumber, because they're using a slur that's named for a weapon of war against anti-war people.