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    Kennystillalive@feddit.org to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

    It's funny and terrifying at the same time to see the US Empire crumbling in real time.

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    It's funny and terrifying at the same time to see the US Empire crumbling in real time.

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    Kennystillalive@feddit.org to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 3 months ago
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      Ooh, those Nazis, taking over America and doing such horrible things as…

      the Civil Rights Movement…?

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        More like assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.

        And no, obviously i am not saying that the political scientists and propogandists were doing this, they were old as shit when that happened.

        But they helped other people spread the same ideology, do you think Americans weren’t racist while the civil rights movement needed to be a thing?

        It got stopped though, by who?

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          I realize that I’m not going to leave a single dent in 57 years of conspiracy theories by saying this, but

          • It wouldn’t require government intervention to create opposition to the civil rights movement, they were more common than MAGAts.

          • The government targeting the icon for peaceful nonviolent approach would certainly be an unusual play to make.

          • The opposition to civil rights in the federal government was the majority party, and the passing of the Civil Rights Act was bipartisan.

          • James Earl Ray, past crimes included Burglary, Armed Robbery, Mail Fraud (stealing checks in the mail), and Armed Robbery Again before escaping prison from 1967 to 1969 before being caught in London, during which time he traveled many states but eventually wound up in LA where he worked and frequently visited the George Wallace headquarters, Wallace being a Segregationist politician and presidential candidate. Ray was renting a room across the street from MLK Jr’s place of assassination and fled shortly thereafter.

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            I am not saying the government killed him directly, but i definitely think that the Nazis had a role to play in the American propoganda machine, that helped racism grow back to its glory days.

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        It’s confusingly worded, but I think they were saying “they” as in “America” were having a civil rights movement (60s), and that the Nazi successors started the war on drugs to undermine and destroy it.

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          Top Nixon aide and Watergate conspirator John Ehrlichman.

          “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

          Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy (1980s, in the Reagan White House):

          You start out in 1954 by saying, “N_gger, n_gger, n_gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n_gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N_gger, n_gger.”

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            Yep.

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