Socialists/Communists: They're under your chair RIGHT NOW!

[Welsh Cowboy]

Guuuuuys, since when is this thread about Foxy News?

Since threadjack.

Back to topic.

I've checked and there are no communists under my chair. Although that fly looks suspicious...

That's just an NSA listening device.

[Beta Test]

Oh the hypocrisy of it all. Bush was no better.

Bush didn't use drone strikes nearly as often to be fair.

But he did invade Iraq for its oil.

[Vazdania]

Somehow I doubt the people in the Mississipi trailer park will be familiar with the Internationale, most people that hate socialism and communism in America know very little about it, if they did they might not hate it so fervently, or at least be able to make accurate points and examples about it.

Very true, most people in America would call all of Europe and Canada socialist countries. Hell people think centrist policies are communist!

I don't trust the centrists =____= they're hiding something.....they must be socialists.

[Albul]

If I ever get the money, I'll buy out Fox News and try to make it "fair and balanced"

I'll give you a link, but be warned...it's not for the faint of heart. Hide your children if you bring it up with them in the same room.

http://www.foxnews.com/

The front page...my iq...just dropped dramatically from seeing this.

I remember reading an article that said that those who watch FOX News are less informed than those who watch don't news at all.

[The Scientific States]

The front page...my iq...just dropped dramatically from seeing this.

I remember reading an article that said that those who watch FOX News are less informed than those who watch don't news at all.

I believe it.

[Crumlark]

Guuuuuys, since when is this thread about Foxy News?

Ever since this conversation was remotely related to opposition to my personally favorite comic, 'Liberalism and Friends'.

[The Serbian Empire]

The front page...my iq...just dropped dramatically from seeing this.

I remember reading an article that said that those who watch FOX News are less informed than those who watch don't news at all.

Oddly the same holds true of DARE graduates and drug use. Fox News and DARE, they just don't work.

[Polvia]

I don't trust the centrists =____= they're hiding something.....they must be socialists.

And Fascists. They must be the pawns of those Communist Swedes I tell you!

[Pacifornia]

When you watch Faux News, the majority of the time, "socialist" and Obama are always in the same sentence

[Welsh Cowboy]

When you watch Faux News, the majority of the time, "socialist" and Obama are always in the same sentence

Actually, no.

[The Serbian Empire]

When you watch Faux News, the majority of the time, "socialist" and Obama are always in the same sentence

In reality, that would be false. Fox News isn't fond of Obama, but they don't call him that least the government pulls the licensing or something.

[Norstal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMs47TSA0M4

So I watched this town hall meeting, and I heard someone shouting at the man, "I'm scared of Obama!" When asked why, they replied, "Because he's a socialist!" In the documentary "Patriocracy", a tea party elderly woman was yelling at the aforementioned man (a former Republican representative ((Bob Ingles)) that "McCarthy had it right". This brings up something interesting: Why is do a few parts of America act so afraid and antagonistic towards Socialist and Communism? Those who do such treat it like it is the boogeyman who is out to get you.

NSG, my question is: is McCarthyism still present in America? (Well, of course it is, seeing as how so many people seem to want to delimb communists.) If so, how strong is it? (I'm going to test this by singing The Internationale in a trailer park in Mississippi. They'll probably kill me because anything they haven't heard of is un-American.) Why do you think it is still somewhat strongly present in some places? (Because the people alive during the Red Scare are spreading the scare to their descendants.)

I checked and there's no communists nor socialists under my chair. OP is a bundle of sticks.

If by McCarthyism you mean anti-communism or anti-socialism, it's still present. Not to the point where they'll attack you, no. Then again I live in SoCal, so who knows what would happen if you said that in Bumfuck, Missouri.

[Free South Califas]

Hopefully McCarthyism will be replaced by a sane, informed anti-communism.

Ableism much? Anyway, whatever informs it, I just want it to not involve purges and raids this time. Proper ballot access would be nice, too. At the end of the day those of us who are proposing something positive and meaningful will probably win out.

[Albul]

I remember reading an article that said that those who watch FOX News are less informed than those who watch don't news at all.

I believe it.

SOURCES
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-less-informed-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5

inb4 further threadjack
Threadjack prevention program
TJPP: I see a red ant on my desk. I am suspicious.

[Jamjai]

I guess its hiding under my bed..

[Albul]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMs47TSA0M4

So I watched this town hall meeting, and I heard someone shouting at the man, "I'm scared of Obama!" When asked why, they replied, "Because he's a socialist!" In the documentary "Patriocracy", a tea party elderly woman was yelling at the aforementioned man (a former Republican representative ((Bob Ingles)) that "McCarthy had it right". This brings up something interesting: Why is do a few parts of America act so afraid and antagonistic towards Socialist and Communism? Those who do such treat it like it is the boogeyman who is out to get you.

NSG, my question is: is McCarthyism still present in America? (Well, of course it is, seeing as how so many people seem to want to delimb communists.) If so, how strong is it? (I'm going to test this by singing The Internationale in a trailer park in Mississippi. They'll probably kill me because anything they haven't heard of is un-American.) Why do you think it is still somewhat strongly present in some places? (Because the people alive during the Red Scare are spreading the scare to their descendants.)

I checked and there's no communists nor socialists under my chair. OP is a bundle of sticks.

If by McCarthyism you mean anti-communism or anti-socialism, it's still present. Not to the point where they'll attack you, no. Then again I live in SoCal, so who knows what would happen if you said that in Bumfuck, Missouri.

Are you calling the op a fascist?

[Arfavia]

I'm pretty sure most Americans don't know what socialism really is.

On the other hand, I am anarchist scum.

Me too, yay! But yeah, the right wing in the US so nuts.

[Wintersun]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMs47TSA0M4

So I watched this town hall meeting, and I heard someone shouting at the man, "I'm scared of Obama!" When asked why, they replied, "Because he's a socialist!" In the documentary "Patriocracy", a tea party elderly woman was yelling at the aforementioned man (a former Republican representative ((Bob Ingles)) that "McCarthy had it right". This brings up something interesting: Why is do a few parts of America act so afraid and antagonistic towards Socialist and Communism? Those who do such treat it like it is the boogeyman who is out to get you.

NSG, my question is: is McCarthyism still present in America? (Well, of course it is, seeing as how so many people seem to want to delimb communists.) If so, how strong is it? (I'm going to test this by singing The Internationale in a trailer park in Mississippi. They'll probably kill me because anything they haven't heard of is un-American.) Why do you think it is still somewhat strongly present in some places? (Because the people alive during the Red Scare are spreading the scare to their descendants.)

I tried watching Patriocracy but had to stop when they used the word "far-left" and "Congress" in the same sentence without it being a joke.

McCarthyism is still alive in America. Socialism is widely feared here but the real fear lies in ignorance. Most people are for a workplace democracy but they don't identify that with socialism because they don't know what socialism is.

[Regnum Dominae]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMs47TSA0M4

So I watched this town hall meeting, and I heard someone shouting at the man, "I'm scared of Obama!" When asked why, they replied, "Because he's a socialist!" In the documentary "Patriocracy", a tea party elderly woman was yelling at the aforementioned man (a former Republican representative ((Bob Ingles)) that "McCarthy had it right". This brings up something interesting: Why is do a few parts of America act so afraid and antagonistic towards Socialist and Communism? Those who do such treat it like it is the boogeyman who is out to get you.

NSG, my question is: is McCarthyism still present in America? (Well, of course it is, seeing as how so many people seem to want to delimb communists.) If so, how strong is it? (I'm going to test this by singing The Internationale in a trailer park in Mississippi. They'll probably kill me because anything they haven't heard of is un-American.) Why do you think it is still somewhat strongly present in some places? (Because the people alive during the Red Scare are spreading the scare to their descendants.)

I tried watching Patriocracy but had to stop when they used the word "far-left" and "Congress" in the same sentence without it being a joke.

McCarthyism is still alive in America. Socialism is widely feared here but the real fear lies in ignorance. Most people are for a workplace democracy but they don't identify that with socialism because they don't know what socialism is.

The thing is, socialism (workplace democracy) can exist within a capitalist market but capitalism can't exist within a socialist market.

Most people are perfectly fine with the existence of workers cooperatives and workplace democracy within the overall capitalist market - they just don't want those organization methods to be mandatory as they would be under a socialist system.

[Agorya]

I don't really subscribe to the left right division (libertarianism and third position fascism break it)

But I always wondered how far right you can get without subscribing to monarchism again.

[Regnum Dominae]

I don't really subscribe to the left right division (libertarianism and third position fascism break it)

But I always wondered how far right you can get without subscribing to monarchism again.

Economically or socially right wing?

[Agorya]

I don't really subscribe to the left right division (libertarianism and third position fascism break it)

But I always wondered how far right you can get without subscribing to monarchism again.

Economically or socially right wing?

Both, like beyond Thatcherism and Fox News.

[Shrillland]

Economically or socially right wing?

Both, like beyond Thatcherism and Fox News.

You can actually go pretty far. Oligarchies can be fundamentally Republican in structure, like Ancient Rome or PRI-era Mexico. And of course they can be both right and left-wing.

[Mkuki]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMs47TSA0M4

So I watched this town hall meeting, and I heard someone shouting at the man, "I'm scared of Obama!" When asked why, they replied, "Because he's a socialist!" In the documentary "Patriocracy", a tea party elderly woman was yelling at the aforementioned man (a former Republican representative ((Bob Ingles)) that "McCarthy had it right". This brings up something interesting: Why is do a few parts of America act so afraid and antagonistic towards Socialist and Communism? Those who do such treat it like it is the boogeyman who is out to get you.

NSG, my question is: is McCarthyism still present in America? (Well, of course it is, seeing as how so many people seem to want to delimb communists.) If so, how strong is it? (I'm going to test this by singing The Internationale in a trailer park in Mississippi. They'll probably kill me because anything they haven't heard of is un-American.) Why do you think it is still somewhat strongly present in some places? (Because the people alive during the Red Scare are spreading the scare to their descendants.)

Well, the Cold War didn't end too long ago. It's still in living memory of the majority of Americans. Coupling that with Reagnite propaganda and there may be part of the answer.

[United Marxist Nations]

It's more that people are just entirely ignorant of the ideologies, I think we need to change that.