Post Ali2lFCr53HoBdJfeq by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #AlhRmL4h3Dm0NA9pBI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-05T17:15:15Z
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I’m reading a history of the John Birch Society and did you know they thought the US army was infiltrated by Communists? They thought the Supreme court and Dwight Eisenhower were agents too. It’s hard to overstate how bonkers this is! And all their stuff sounds just like MAGA stuff.
(DIR) Post #AlhS4BsE00Yl33pzw8 by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2024-09-05T17:18:20Z
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@futurebird You should read up on how paranoid Jefferson Davis was.
(DIR) Post #AlhTTDE4Cye6R6Y7Um by mhoye@mastodon.social
2024-09-05T17:34:11Z
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@futurebird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5f1KpfngH4
(DIR) Post #AlhTWZEcpsgNZ4PVFA by steve@discuss.systems
2024-09-05T17:34:47Z
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@futurebird JBS has always been every bit as deranged as modern-day fever dream MAGA, they just wore nicer clothes.
(DIR) Post #AlhYUg3ozDhzvTH744 by gannet@wandering.shop
2024-09-05T18:30:29Z
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@futurebird Yeah, it’s all the same conspiracy theory nonsense.
(DIR) Post #Ali0GhSTn4KMvIvqhE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-05T23:41:44Z
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"Dwight Eisenhower is a secret communist" is right up there with "Harris wants to defund the police."
(DIR) Post #Ali0aT1bADIDwxmh0a by TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com
2024-09-05T23:45:13Z
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@futurebird There's a throughline from the Birchers to MAGA.MAGA was Trump's Birtherism-fueled takeover of the Tea Party Movement.The Tea Party Movement was Astroturf boosted by the Koch brothers to take over the RNC.Their dad , Fred, co-founded the Birchers.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_C._Koch
(DIR) Post #Ali0yWzk3SKPDGOHFw by sbourne@mastodon.social
2024-09-05T23:49:38Z
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@futurebird It's so hard to keep up. I thought they said that's she's a cop? So why would she be in favor of defunding? My synapses are tangling.
(DIR) Post #Ali2lFCr53HoBdJfeq by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2024-09-06T00:09:37Z
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@futurebird Reminds me of this classic quote:“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
(DIR) Post #Ali9TJ62ZtMoiaWTQ0 by msbellows@c.im
2024-09-06T01:24:49Z
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@futurebird No surprise: it was less by the Koch Brothers' dad.
(DIR) Post #AliNC2DXTmWMnugjRo by mloxton@med-mastodon.com
2024-09-06T03:58:36Z
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@futurebird Yup, the MAGA stuff is just a tatty repeat of really old stuff that wasn't any less bonkers the first or second times around