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You should be nice
Mmm actually communists are nice, so you should avoid that
Brother I hate partisanship
Just regarding the post title, John Birch died 14 years before the JBS was founded and had nothing to do with them. They considered him a martyr because he was killed by a Chinese Communist during an assignment so they used him as a symbol of anti-Communism. James Doolittle, a wartime pilot and possibly Birch’s friend (maybe they just worked together, not sure exactly and I don’t feel like looking into it further), said in his autobiography:
“[Birch] had no way of knowing that the John Birch Society, a highly vocal postwar anti-communist organization, would be named after him because its founders believed him to be the ‘first casualty of World War III.’ I feel sure he would not have approved.”
As usual it’s these far right assholes hiding behind something/someone more respectable to launder their bullshit.
What I’m hearing is that Communism values kindness
Theoretically. Not necessarily in practice, because it’s always people implementing it. And people tend to screw everything up. Kind of like Christianity is said to value kindness…
They think they’re being “based” or whatever, but I can’t see this doing anything but potentially backfiring.
If you’re all in on the brain rot already, then you don’t like MLK, and a post like this does nothing to move the needle.
However, if you’re like most people and still respect Dr. King, and maybe are too young to be super indoctrinated in the red scare bullshit, this post could really only serve to potentially increase people’s opinion of communism. Like “oh, maybe it’s not evil if MLK was one, let me read more about it” or whatever.
Did that make sense? It made sense in my head…
Either way, everyone should read more about Communism. It would probably bring public fear of it to 0%.
“Everyone should read more.”
So he was even more based than media lets on. Thanks, JBS
“Once the capitalistic world burned everyone realized that communism was the good guy all along and that John Birch was getting paid huge sums by nefarious strangers to say that shit.”
The John birch society isn’t being paid by those people, it’s comprised of them. It’s an organization initially comprised of wealthy people who think that workers having rights is communists stealing from them
even better!
We actually consider that a positive at this point.
Stop selling me on Dr King.
Didn’t he advocate for UBI?
I am downright shocked at the number of comments in here that apparently don’t know what the John Birch Society is. Frankly everyone should know that. If you don’t understand them how can you understand what this country, and the world, are going through right now?
He was a socialist. Because a capitalist could never be kind.
