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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 04:41 PM Original message |
Random thought..is this similar to the anti-communist memes of the 50's? |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yes its is |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's straight out of every fascist's playbook since the beginning of time. |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. It is the same old technique of playing on people's fears... |
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Riftaxe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Why do you think the "Communism" not have quite as much traction |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 06:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I think that they are less tuned in to the threat of nuclear attack... |
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Riftaxe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Excellent point, Cold War tensions |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
5. There's a difference? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
6. yes. anything which scapegoats the more or less powerless is. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. Yes. John Birch lives. |
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RealisticDem44 (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. Indeed, it is very similar |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
11. The 14 Points in all their ugly splendor . . . |
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tinrobot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. Yes, and one result in the 60's was the Great Society. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
13. Same place, same thing. |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
14. so..to carry this to the next level...what happened to those who didn't believe the "meme"? |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
15. It is, in fact, a direct evolution of the same thing. |
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