• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    It’s embarrassing that liberals can’t see through this shit in 2026. It’s somehow more pathetic that they’re too scared to put on a MAGA hat when they say it or cheer it on like John Birch Society hogs.

    At least Deceptichum has a fun name for a fed account. That’s kind of quirked up for the State Department.

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        “Literacy” was always the most basic tool of totalitarian propaganda. If you are not literate you can’t be fed communist propaganda. The most steadfast anti-communist I knew in my childhood was my maternal grandfather who was illiterate. Communist propaganda did not reach him

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        They banned my Lemmy.ml account from their meme sub for “voting while tankie,” lol.

        It wasn’t even theory either, just Aptheker’s account of the Hungarian counter-revolution in 1956, as well as MI6’s role in stoking it and the CIA’s involvement. Deceptichum kept downplaying lynchings of Jewish people and communists, then tried to change the subject rather than confront their misunderstood beliefs.

        Theory showering doesn’t work, you can take a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. I tend to link works as supporting evidence, not arguments in and of themselves. Theory gets linked for those that ask or seem like they want it.