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Yaazer | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 broad brush... and all that.
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HODL | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 I’m not painting with a broad brush I mean this literally. Communists are scum. Every last one of them.
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Yaazer | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I'm just saying, at first you say "leftist" and now you're conflating it with "communist". Maybe dial back the over-simplication and give it some measured, considered thought.
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HODL | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It’s the same thing
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Yaazer | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 And here in lies the problem. But its all good. You're free to believe whatever you wish. Good luck!
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HODL | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Stay safe from the commie scum my friend.
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Yaazer | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Maybe some reading you can add to your list sometime 😉 
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare
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HODL | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 McCarthy didn’t go far enough.
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. | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 We are all taught in public school how terrible he was to all those poor hollywood commies but he was a visionary. Patton should have taken Moscow.