• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    10 years ago if you had pitched this as the story line for a movie: Republicans aiding Russia in invading Europe you would have been, at best, laughed out of the room.

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      And yet 10 years ago is when Romney warned us. I remember having a conversation with my mother in which I sounded off incredulously about it, “I don’t buy this red scare 2.0 thing” to which my mother said, “there’s probably something to it if someone says you shouldn’t trust their friends.”

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      The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot. The Spies performed prodigies of activity in clambering over the rooftops and cutting the streamers that fluttered from the chimneys. But within two or three minutes it was all over.