Seth Cotlar: You heard it here first folks. When engineers say what the radius of a highway curve should be, that’s communism. Public health rules for safe drinking water? Communism.

You heard it here first folks. When engineers say what the radius of a highway curve should be, that’s communism. Public health rules for safe drinking water? Communism.

The person who wrote that tweet is a huge fan of Cleon Skousen, a guy who identified a bunch of stuff right wingers didn’t like in the 1950s and then wrote a book falsely claiming he had evidence that all of those things were part of the Commies’ written plans. open.substack.com/pub/sethcotl...

Down the Derp State Rabbit Hole with the Chair of the Marion County (OR) GOPopen.substack.com Cleon Skousen's conspiracy theories, Chinese commandos invading from Mexico, and other oldies but goodies from the right wing playbook

You know who else loves Skousen? Ben Carson. This article is from 2015, but just the other day I saw Carson promote Skousen’s book as a brilliant expose on how Communism worms its way into the minds of America’s youth. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Ben Carson's love affair with a "nutjob" conspiracy theorist.www.motherjones.com A top GOP presidential contender has embraced the dark, paranoid, and crazy worldview of a far-right pseudohistorian.

You’re doing gods work

Ben Carson is my go to example of how highly educated people can be dumb. Genuine top level neurosurgeon, almost once in a generation talent. Also thought the pyramids were built to store grain.

Poster child for dunning-krueger

Regulations that stop me, an untrained person, from opening another's skull and messing with their brain? Communism.

Good ole Dr Ben...

Alex Jones loves Skousen and Skousen’s nephew and spiritual heir, Joel, is a frequent guest (or was in the past; Joel isn’t much a fan of Trump for his own esoteric reasons which conflicts with the pro-Trump Jones narrative). They are anti-communist conspiracy weirdo royalty.

Joel is especially popular with the far right folks in Southern Oregon.

If I understand this logic correctly, then Ben Carson is a communist?

Also, Alex Jones

My parents got me this book as a teenager lol. I thought it was just a Mormon thing

It's definitely a Mormon thing...but it's also a broader US right thing too. But folks raised in Mormon families or communities are far more likely to know who Skousen is.

"Cleon Skousen" sounds like a name made up by the writers for the series Big Love

But yes, you can find The Naked Communist in secondhand book stores just about anywhere.

Who was it that decided which number was lower and which number was higher? Communists, that's who. They want us to believe in a number that is literally nothing. Pure commie malarkey.

Make Roman Numerals Great Again!

I'm not sure we need a bunch of fancy ay-leets telling us we need numbers no way. Why can't we score ball games with colors, is what I'm saying.

we have to be careful tho because organizing the colors in any way whatsoever is gonna be doing the communism

Colours? COLOURS? You know what else has colours? RAINBOWS HAVE COLOURS. And we all know who likes rainbows, right???!?!?!!!???one~!

They sound like my brothers when we were kids. Vacuuming? That’s communism. Scraping plates before putting them in the dishwasher? Communism.

anything that gets in the way of their culling the rest of us? communism

i mean, they’re not wrong

Close, it's Social Democracy, not Communism, but a distantly related theory.

Communism is an extreme form of Social Democracy applied to economics and employment specifically. It can be applied either via private sector on the basis of Worker Cooperatives, or in the public sector by Government managed economy. I prefer the former when possible.

The core of social democracy is that government should serve the needs of the people as directed democratically by the people. It is an awfully American concept, but somehow Americans are afraid of it due to corporate propaganda.

Communism relies on people not being greedy fucks, playing nice, sharing, and caring. It’s a lovely idea in theory but it’s not feasible. Now, more financial regulations, employee-owned companies, and unions would help balance the scales against unhinged capitalism. We can dream.

I hate to tell you, but employee owned companies ARE communism.

"Communism relies on people not being greedy fucks, playing nice, sharing, and caring. It’s a lovely idea in theory but it’s not feasible." Funny, I feel the same way about capitalism.

Intolerance

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damn! so youll just say whatever huh. you dont even need to google it or anything

Regrettably, there are times when I wish Covid had done a better job on Republicans. There it is. Last post of the day.

Rule by idiots is called capitalism.

Or “republican president”

It's called kakistocracy

It's actually not called communism, but technocracy. However, as long as the technocrats are controlled by elected bodies, it's perfectly democratic - in stark opposition to appointed judges.

Appointed judges with comparatively low salaries and lifetime tenure.

I actually went over to Twatter to see if that was real. I just could not believe that they could say something so ass-monglingly stupid. I was wrong. It's real.

We are so deeply screwed. I'm having a very hard time staying positive in the slightest bit.

American conservatism is stupid people hating being stupid.

"we shouldn't trust people who know what they're talking about" truly is the entire Republican train of thought the past decade

This has been a strain since at least the turn of the century. But it's astounding that they do not realize how half-brained they sound.

Being full-brained = communism.

This is incredibly ironic since the biggest communist region mes in world history all were quite famous for murdering their intelligenzija for being "idiologically unreliable" Which in turn is a political category the trumpists reintroduced to American politics. This would all be very funny, but..

FREEEEEDUUUUMB!!!

I’m looking forward to needing to test meat again, instead of relying on the jack-booted thugs of the FDA.