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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love how they're going on about this crap, while giving BJs to the russians.

The red scare you dipshits was about russia...

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They're no longer communist and they're getting a lot of money from Putin so they don't give a shit. Similar deal with China. They may be communist on paper but they still play ball with them by giving the corporations a place to build shit with cheap labor and materials. They also have a huge consumer base so you better believe these stupid McCarthyists are fondling Xi Jinping's balls for acess to their markets.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Christ, this lady is nuts. She just rattled off a list of people who got caught doing illegal shit, and were held somewhat accountable, and that's the "Deep State"?

Got news for you, sister...

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What even is the “Deep State” at this point?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

It's apparently whatever "they" are doing that you don't like, and it changes ALL THE TIME. It's classic Fascism and fostering the idea of "Us V Them".

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Because to many people politics is a team sport - their team is always right the opposing team is always wrong.

So if the refs call a foul on their team then it was a bullshit call, but on the other team then it was fair.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago

McCarthy just made shit up so it makes sense they look up to him.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They realize that means Trump, right?

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Every accusation is a confession, after all.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

It works doubly well because after accusing the left of doing it for ages (like voter fraud) all of the right-wing voters will say, "So what if we cheated? We're just trying to match their level of cheating to keep it fair!"

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit. McCarthy was a junkie and a crippling drunk who's vices ultimately killed him.

He wasn't "right", he never found a single Soviet agent. He was probably a self-loathing homosexual who rode the lavender scare to bolster his horrible, HORRIBLE polling numbers and it bit him in the ass eventually.

THIS is who they are lionizing now?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Ann Coulter wrote an entire book trying to "set the record straight", if I recall.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Looks like some people need to be introduced to a wall.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The right has felt they had to "suffer" for decades now by having to be quiet about things like: McCarthy, Nixon, Pinochet, slavery, and on and on. They cannot wait to be able to jam a counter-narrative down the throats of everyone, most especially your kids in government schools run the "right" way. If some of this gives them a permission structure for some violence, all the better in their view.