I bet NYT would have gotten in more trouble for "happy birthday joseph mccarthy! you were right!" headline then the Marx one
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Replying to @turrible_tao
Marx was at least partially correct. His critiques of capitalism aren't wrong, just incomplete and unbalanced. What did Joseph McCarthy get right?
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Communist infiltration Communist subversion
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I think I have a blindspot about the Rosenberg's the way some of my black friends have a blindspot about OJ
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the rosenbergs totally were stalinists, alger hiss was communist, and eric garland was a communist and thats just the stuff we for sure know
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Replying to @turrible_tao @danlistensto
were stalinists vs actively spying for the ussr but also they were actively spying for the ussr mccarthyism was bad but for real the establishment was just lousy in the 40s and 50s, he hadnt misdiagnosed a problem is my understanding what was that broken OTP called?
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ya i listed ones that were taking orders from stalin, thats not even getting into all the ones who were communists but not taking orders (I doubt if any single anyone was taking orders from hitler and a bunch of nazis took over a whole thing we would just shrug like we do now)
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Nazi attempts to spy on the US were comical Like There were 8 guys brought to shore by Uboat Gonna do all sorts of sabotage, they were caught almost immediately First part of their scheme was an elaborate plan to get some pistols, apparently they imagined this would be hard
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