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TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

Anticommunism ruins comedy

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Anticommunism ruins comedy

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TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago
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https://xcancel.com/Solidarity_Star/status/2000747641903169731

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The original is much funnier, because—in addition to being closer to something an actual communist would say—it implies Americans are tough to educate.

[Educated?] Me? America’s son? That will be a challenge! zane

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    This just reminds me of that post of a guy claiming that his grandfather refused to learn to read so that he couldn’t read communist propaganda.

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      “Literacy” was always the most basic tool of totalitarian propaganda. If you are not literate you can’t be fed communist propaganda. The most steadfast anti-communist I knew in my childhood was my maternal grandfather who was illiterate. Communist propaganda did not reach him

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        The USSR famously didn’t have mass media radio.

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      think-about-it

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      i only learned how to read enough to understand various fast food franchise’s menus. i will not be reading about “sharing” and “baths”.

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