the republican party, having a normal sunday pic.twitter.com/9FuFbPuNh9— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) February 24, 2019
Republican President: Stalinism is the future!— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) February 25, 2019
Republican Senator: Hold my beer, we should listen more to the wise words of fascist dictators.
Another Republican Senator: It has been way too long since we overthrew a Latin American leader and installed our own government. pic.twitter.com/i4Kbj0RwKN
Interesting to consider that most of America will have no idea this went on today. And if they did...?When you consider the number of Democratic Socialists who were jailed and murdered for opposing Mussolini and Hitler, the true obscenity of this tweet becomes glaring. https://t.co/pHl4nRx4d6— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 24, 2019
(I especially like the conceit that the last Stalinist government on earth, whose only proclaimed goal is to subdue the entire Korean peninsula, has just been waiting for a summit with Trump to instead challenge China for economic hegemony.)
It's funny how "freedom" has become a mostly meaningless abstract good thing as it is separated from the modifiers "of" and "from" that FDR used to give it concrete meaning.
ReplyDeleteIn the words of ST:OS: "Freedom? That is a worship word!" Only now do I realize that means it's a hollow abstraction.
DeleteThanks for the insight.