Thought Police are now at the US Govt

[[DHT]Osiris]

Well, you gotta admit, he has a point. The days of "touchy, feely, we are sensitive to the smallest of the smallest minority and craziest ideas of diversity to point of absurdity" are over.

Thank goodness.

Sure hope you're ready to bow down to Israel then, since it'll apparently be mandated moving forward.

 

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This was an interesting bit of history I'd not previously heard of

The ‘Iron Mountain’ hoax: how anti-Vietnam war satire sparked today’s conspiracy theories

Meant as a cautionary leftwing tale, Report from Iron Mountain had a real-world impact that is still playing out

www.theguardian.com

Interesting how a satire concocted by the 'left' ends up being fully bought into by the right.

I'm really not a proponent of 'horseshoe theory' in general (I think centrists are far more likely to co-operate with the far-right and facilitate its growth, than are the left - aka 'fish-hook theory'), but occasionally there are specific circumstances and ways in which "horseshoe theory" does apply. Opposition to foreign military adventures maybe being one of them.

Another thing that strikes me about it is it's yet another way in which Vietnam looms large in the development of the US far right. It's still having negative effects on the US, half-a-century after it ended.

I wonder if there's a general principle that says imperialism invariably ends up coming home? The tactics employed by imperial powers on the foreigners they subjugate always seems to end up being employed, by the rulers of that imperial power, on their own domestic population. Maybe an empire provides an education and training ground for domestic despots?

That's also struck me about the way the most right-wing authoritarian voices in the current Tory Party are disproportionately descendants of the colonial bourgeoisie, the local elites who kept the natives in line on behalf of those at the top of the British Empire.