▲ 190 ▼ So, turns out all the Maduro & Chavez haters helped bring Nazism back. Red Scare 3.0 baby! (hexbear.net) submitted 8 months ago by Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net 48 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago (3 children) I'm glad pretenses are a thing of the past, actually permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children) Eh, I'm pretty sure if this existed during the Cold War, they'd have admitted it was for killing commies then too. Hiding that specific type of Western government agency and bourgeois individual and institutional bloodlust behind paper thin pretenses about general "national security", wasn't really a thing for all that long, just a short blip after the USSR was dissolved. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 child) a short blip after the USSR was dissolved That's when I came of age so I'm biased permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* Yeah, same, I was born after the dissolution so I too came up in the era of War on Terror and "National Security" and Cold War Counterintelligence systems replaced by Counterterrorism. Dealt with my fair share of washed up Cold Warriors harassing innocent kids because they'd lost the power and authority to do much more or go after adults who matter. But I know enough about the Cold War period to know what was a return to prewar paradigms that's now being lost yet again and what was a brief blip of throwing a tarp over old Cold War toys and continuing to use stuff no one has any clue how to replace in peacetime. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children) Eh, I'm pretty sure if this existed during the Cold War, they'd have admitted it was for killing commies then too. Hiding that specific type of Western government agency and bourgeois individual and institutional bloodlust behind paper thin pretenses about general "national security", wasn't really a thing for all that long, just a short blip after the USSR was dissolved. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 child) a short blip after the USSR was dissolved That's when I came of age so I'm biased permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* Yeah, same, I was born after the dissolution so I too came up in the era of War on Terror and "National Security" and Cold War Counterintelligence systems replaced by Counterterrorism. Dealt with my fair share of washed up Cold Warriors harassing innocent kids because they'd lost the power and authority to do much more or go after adults who matter. But I know enough about the Cold War period to know what was a return to prewar paradigms that's now being lost yet again and what was a brief blip of throwing a tarp over old Cold War toys and continuing to use stuff no one has any clue how to replace in peacetime. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 child) a short blip after the USSR was dissolved That's when I came of age so I'm biased permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* Yeah, same, I was born after the dissolution so I too came up in the era of War on Terror and "National Security" and Cold War Counterintelligence systems replaced by Counterterrorism. Dealt with my fair share of washed up Cold Warriors harassing innocent kids because they'd lost the power and authority to do much more or go after adults who matter. But I know enough about the Cold War period to know what was a return to prewar paradigms that's now being lost yet again and what was a brief blip of throwing a tarp over old Cold War toys and continuing to use stuff no one has any clue how to replace in peacetime. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* Yeah, same, I was born after the dissolution so I too came up in the era of War on Terror and "National Security" and Cold War Counterintelligence systems replaced by Counterterrorism. Dealt with my fair share of washed up Cold Warriors harassing innocent kids because they'd lost the power and authority to do much more or go after adults who matter. But I know enough about the Cold War period to know what was a return to prewar paradigms that's now being lost yet again and what was a brief blip of throwing a tarp over old Cold War toys and continuing to use stuff no one has any clue how to replace in peacetime. permalink fedilink source parent