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    Matt Lewis‏Verified account @mattklewis Aug 5

    Matt Lewis Retweeted Noah Smith

    Once upon a time, unpatriotic American leftists declared, “Better red than dead.” ...It’s weird that today’s dupes and useful idiots are all on the right.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1026150926271143936 …

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    Noah SmithVerified account @Noahpinion
    This about sums up the Republican party right now. pic.twitter.com/Kh1G3QocZD
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    11:05 AM - 5 Aug 2018 from Alexandria, VA
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    • 𝒞𝒶𝓇𝓁𝓎 Infantry LT #2187 Dr Rochelle Parks Iona Italia Elizabeth Sincera Chris Pott Garrett Bell Just JoanG💥🌊🌊 J Lee
    37 replies 61 retweets 258 likes
      1. Sonja Martin‏ @martin533 Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Fools.

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      1. Bop_Hunter‏ @KevinSDouglas Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Better Putin than Highfalutin'

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      1. Billiken75‏ @Billiken75 Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Don’t forget the current President. Why are so many GOP Senators going to Russia?

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      1. "..."‏ @935798366E Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis @PaulSzoldra

        If you think fools like this are all on the right you haven’t been paying attention bro...

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      1. DeeOsten‏ @dee_osten Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Clueless

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      1. Laura L 🌊 🎵 ⚡ 🎃‏ @laura_lynn56 Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Better bereft than Left.

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      2. Michael Gryboski‏ @Puritan1986 Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Maybe I'm being too idealistic, but is it possible that the 2 men in the photo might actually be Russian, or at the least Russian-American? Perchance the shirts are an in-joke that their friends at the rally got, but we, the broader online community who lack context, don't get.

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      3. Mike‏ @IP89er Aug 5
        Replying to @Puritan1986 @mattklewis

        Man, that’s a lot of gymnastics and assumptions to excuse the inexcusable. There’s no excuse for that shirt, under any context.

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      4. Michael Gryboski‏ @Puritan1986 Aug 5
        Replying to @IP89er @mattklewis

        Most likely. I would not be surprised if the photo was showing inexcusable behavior. However, I also know social media has a bad habit of taking photos out of context and running with a misinterpretation. Here is a notable example:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12103150/Rembrandt-The-Night-Watch-The-real-story-behind-the-kids-on-phones-photo.html …

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      1. Ezra S Abrams‏ @Ezra_Abrams Aug 6
        Replying to @mattklewis @PaulSzoldra

        you are so totally missing the point of "better red then dead" what it mean't, at the time, was "better red then we are ALL dead in a thermonuclear holocaust" I don't know how I feel about this today, but at the time, you may not know this, nuclear holocaust was not hyperbole

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      2. Utah Tn‏ @TnUtah Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        You miss the point dude. Turn on your thinking cap if you have one. Democrats and their Marxist ways are worse than Russian hybrid democracy. Ppl come to America to get away from Socialism/Communism/Marxism/Collectivism & Identity politics. #WalkAway #Capitalism #GenZ #MAGA

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      3. Cle‏ @CleDonnelly Aug 5
        Replying to @TnUtah @mattklewis

        Trump's team is conspiring with Putin's Russia to destroy our electoral system. At Helsinki, Trump disparaged the US intel community. At Helsinki, Putin admitted he wanted Trump to win. What the hell is a Russian hybrid democracy?

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      1. m t k‏ @hansi02 Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis @TomMetrick

        #Marx When capitalists go with ‘Communists’ one might know they are already halfway there from Capitalism to Communism, as described in the book. lol. 🤓

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      1. (((g)))‏ @QRandom Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis @aliamjadrizvi

        Wasn't it far more commonly heard from the right wing, "better dead than red"?

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      1. Jack Walsh‏ @JackWaltimore Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Okay, I'm not trying to defend the nostalgia of unreconstructed hippies, and neither is a great option, but communism is objectively preferable to a global nuclear holocaust. And this Democrat would rather be dead than one of those insane alcoholic nihilists.

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      1. David Burchell‏ @CatsEyes00 Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis @LauraWalkerKC

        If they like Russia so much, why don't they move there? As my Dad would have said, back in the day...

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      1. Noman‏ @itnor1 Aug 5
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Maybe they started out as leftists chanting "better red than dead?"

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