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   zapkitty said on 7/23/2018 @ 11:51pm PT: [Permalink]

   Query: do you know that the “Dems Did It Too!” meme in

   http://editorialcartoonists.com...180718_low.jpg

   … is based on right-wing falsehoods
   and distortions? Just repeating GOP
   lies doesn’t seem very insightful.

   And the point behind the Soviet hammer and sickle flag isn’t about “communism.”

   It’s about the authoritarian empire
   the Soviet Union represented at the
   height of its power.

   The empire Putin is trying to restore.

   The fact that the campaign also displaces the *actual* far left at the same time is just a bonus for the Dems.

   Despite current Russian agitprop that particular flag hasn’t represented actual communism for a very long time.

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   Neo Conn said on 7/27/2018 @ 1:24pm PT: [Permalink]

   The last cartoon has a huge flaw in it. People are NOT going to destroy the society which oppresses them. Mass movements which have some success end up causing a totalitarian response throughout history.

   Kurt Vonnegut explored this in his Player Piano, where the last person with a job led a revolt which destroyed their mechanized society. Once this effort was completed, those who brought it down were presented as attempting to put it back together again.

   It was all they knew, and they needed to make their lives meaningful rather than become something else once the opportunity arose.

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   PDiddie said on 7/29/2018 @ 5:43am PT: [Permalink]

   Dear Zapkitty, Neo Conn:

   They’re cartoons. Lighten up.

   Regards,

   PDid