• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    He’d probably go along with it if everyone just kept congratulating him or praising him for such a selfless sacrifice, coup de bugs bunny

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      He wouldn’t because he literally doesn’t understand the meaning of the word sacrifice. He was asked in the 2016 campaign what he has sacrificed for America and he replied that he created jobs.

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      “During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.”

      • Micheal Parenti
    • jaek@aussie.zone
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      1 day ago

      Look, I’ll agree that the US has abysmal press freedom, but they’re not quite at the level of Russia or NK yet.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You really trust those polls? They’re still done by landline telephone in the US, for fuck’s sake.