• Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    14 hours ago

    Everybody who was ever called a socialist communist should be publicly flogged. These idiots don’t even know what their objecting to. It’s utterly pathetic.

  • bigboismith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    3 days ago

    You should be nice

    Mmm actually communists are nice, so you should avoid that

    Brother I hate partisanship

  • NewDark@lemmings.worldEnglish
    951·
    3 days ago

    He was a socialist at least.

    And if he was, crazy he would have liked the “sharing is caring” ideology over the “fuck you, got mine” ideology.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago

      You’re telling me a black American minister in the 1960s believed capitalism and white supremacy are deeply linked and both are an active defiance of his God? Shocked, shocked I tell you…

      Ok tbh most Americans have no idea that that would be kinda obvious

  • PDFuego@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    Just regarding the post title, John Birch died 14 years before the JBS was founded and had nothing to do with them. They considered him a martyr because he was killed by a Chinese Communist during an assignment so they used him as a symbol of anti-Communism. James Doolittle, a wartime pilot and possibly Birch’s friend (maybe they just worked together, not sure exactly and I don’t feel like looking into it further), said in his autobiography:

    “[Birch] had no way of knowing that the John Birch Society, a highly vocal postwar anti-communist organization, would be named after him because its founders believed him to be the ‘first casualty of World War III.’ I feel sure he would not have approved.”

    As usual it’s these far right assholes hiding behind something/someone more respectable to launder their bullshit.

    • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      Theoretically. Not necessarily in practice, because it’s always people implementing it. And people tend to screw everything up. Kind of like Christianity is said to value kindness…

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    “Once the capitalistic world burned everyone realized that communism was the good guy all along and that John Birch was getting paid huge sums by nefarious strangers to say that shit.”

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      The John birch society isn’t being paid by those people, it’s comprised of them. It’s an organization initially comprised of wealthy people who think that workers having rights is communists stealing from them

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    3 days ago

    I am downright shocked at the number of comments in here that apparently don’t know what the John Birch Society is. Frankly everyone should know that. If you don’t understand them how can you understand what this country, and the world, are going through right now?

    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I keep up decently with things - not as a lifestyle, but pretty much my only YouTube push notifications are leftist progressive independent news - and if I’ve heard of the John Birch Society before, I’ve since forgotten about it.

      This is not to say my experience is typical, or that your assertion is wrong. Just providing an additional data point.

      Edit: I imagine “progressive” is a better descriptor than “leftist” for the media I consume, as I can’t think of any actual socialist voices among what I watch.