• Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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    11 months ago

    Oh my god I totally forgot about that time when Acorn was the chud cause celebre

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    11 months ago

    no the moderate republicans were in the 1950s and 1960s. oh wait was something going on back then too?

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    That last one spells out "OLIGARH"

    Bruh you couldn't just put Commies in there or some shit?

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    frothingfash "The commies are talking down to you! I will prove it with my condescending classroom-style chalkboard prop!"

  • CoolYori [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    You know the sad thing is people wanted to mainline crazy so bad that Beck could not keep up. People swapped to Alex Jones who is a more pure source of crazy.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    11 months ago

    it's fucking crazy how these people are still angry at Woodrow Wilson.

    where's the fucking democrat who's still angry at segregationists even (to be clear this is bad, but it's wild the difference in views toward history in the parties)

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Wasn't the League of Nations his deal too? So imperialism that led to WW1 and Zionist mandate in British Palestine, add those to the list

        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          He practically invented US imperalism in its modern form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsonianism

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            11 months ago

            Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.

            —Woodrow Wilson in an unpublished paper of 1907, as quoted in The Rising American Empire (1960) by Richard Warner Van Alstyne, p. 201

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      90s conspiracy New World Order stuff was heavily based on the idea of the UN being an evil forerunner to One World Government(tm) that was taking away US national sovereignty. So Wilson was a special villian for trying to start the process earlier with the Leauge if Nations.

      Glenn Beck was doing a rip off of Alex Jones Unified Conspiracy Theory/NWO shtick, which was all a rehashing of John Birch Society shit, which was itself a repackaging of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    11 months ago

    Imagine thinking SEIU is revolutionary in any way shape or form. Many of their employees aren't even unionized and they union bust their own people. I know a bunch of SEIU workers who were fired for trying to unionize in my area. They're the absolute bare minimum for a workers union and even calling them that is a stretch.

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    11 months ago

    There was a point early on his TV show where he was actually fairly moderate and sane. It was before this, and I know it for a fact, because I was a little politics freak who watched his show during that period. He didn't get good ratings and he started getting real kooky with it. Or maybe I was just a chud, who knows.

  • Spike [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Back then they were also talking about how Republicans have become extreme and that there was a time in the past when Republicans were sane and moderate. Like poetry, it rhymes

    • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      Do you remember back in the day when Republicans would only take basic rights away from trans people, but now try to take away every woman's rights if they don't want to become a housewife? I remember when they used to be sane and moderate. maybe-later-honey