https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1320735256220176392

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    This is liberal shit intended to get ahead of the game and turn BLM into a russia/china-op in the new Biden administration. They're going to claim that all unrest in the country is caused by China.

    It's literally just rebranding their Russian-interference bullshit into China-interference. You know it's completely nonsense because they've been doing the same thing for decades now about Russia without ever mentioning China at all, now suddenly they're a massive boogey-man? No.

  • SeizeTheseMeans [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    These libs don't understand how this helps pave the way to fascism. Unrest isn't caused by the internal contradictions of capitalism and your society, unrest is coming from outside intruders.

  • cum_drinker69 [any]
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    4 years ago

    america is an entire country suffering from protagonist syndrome. Except me, im cool.

    • Zodiark
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      5 months ago

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  • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is some serious yellow peril/ red scare bs, the article is very insidious. They dont even list these 600 groups but they describe them in a paragraph including things like immigrant centers, community centers, aid centers, education centers, literally just any Chinese org in the us??? One of the ones they talk about was literally founded with the help of Henry Kissinger wtf does that even mean??

    • cum_drinker69 [any]
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      4 years ago

      Chinese government does more community building in america than american government does, what a shocker.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    William Hearst – Friend of Hitler

    William Randolph Hearst is the name of a multi-millionaire who sought to help the Nazis in their psychological warfare against the Soviet Union. Hearst was a well-known US newspaper proprietor known as the ‘father’ of the so-called ‘yellow press’, i.e., the sensationalist press. William Hearst began his career as a newspaper editor in 1885 when his father, George Hearst, a millionaire mining industrialist, Senator and newspaper proprietor himself, put him in charge of the San Francisco Daily Examiner.

    This was also the start of the Hearst newspaper empire, an empire which strongly influenced the lives and thinking of North Americans. After his father died, William Hearst sold all the mining industry shares he inherited and began to invest capital in the world of journalism. His first purchase was the New York Morning Journal, a traditional newspaper which Hearst completely transformed into a sensationalist rag. He bought his stories at any price, and when there were no atrocities or crimes to report, it behoved his journalists and photographers to ‘arrange’ matters. It is this which in fact characterises the ‘yellow press’: lies and ‘arranged’ atrocities served up as truth.

    These lies of Hearst’s made him a millionaire and a very important personage in the newspaper world. In 1935 he was one of the richest men in the world, with a fortune estimated at $200 million. After his purchase of the Morning Journal, Hearst went on to buy and establish daily and weekly newspapers throughout the US. In the 1940s, William Hearst owned 25 daily newspapers, 24 weekly newspapers, 12 radio stations, 2 world news services, one business providing news items for films, the Cosmopolitan film company, and a lot of others. In 1948 he bought one of the US’s first TV stations, BWAL – TV in Baltimore. Hearst’s newspapers sold 13 million copies a day and had close to 40 million readers. Almost a third of the adult population of the US were reading Hearst newspapers every day. Furthermore, many millions of people throughout the world received information from the Hearst press via his news services, films and a series of newspapers that were translated and published in large quantities all over the world. The figures quoted above demonstrate how the Hearst empire was able to influence American politics, and indeed world politics, over very many years – on issues which included opposition to the US entering the Second World War on the side of the Soviet Union and support for the McCarthyite anti-communist witch-hunts of the 1950s.

    William Hearst’s outlook was ultra-conservative, nationalist and anti-communist. His politics were the politics of the extreme right. In 1934 he travelled to Germany, where he was received by Hitler as a guest and friend. After this trip, Hearst’s newspapers became even more reactionary, always carrying articles against socialism, against the Soviet Union and especially against Stalin. Hearst also tried to use his newspapers for overt Nazi propaganda purposes, publishing a series of articles by Goering, Hitler’s right-hand man. The protests of many readers, however, forced him to stop publishing such items and to withdraw them from circulation.

    After his visit to Hitler, Hearst’s sensationalist newspapers were filled with ‘revelations’ about the terrible happenings in the Soviet Union – murders, genocide, slavery, luxury for the rulers and starvation for the people, all these were the big news items almost every day. The material was provided to Hearst by the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s political police. On the front pages of the newspapers there often appeared caricatures and falsified pictures of the Soviet Union, with Stalin portrayed as a murderer holding a dagger in his hand. We should not forget that these articles were read each day by 40 million people in the US and millions of others worldwide!


    from Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union: From Hitler to Hearst, from Conquest to Solzhenitsyn

    • wombat [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      don't forget Hearst personally funded the paean to fascism "Gabriel Over the White House"

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Over_the_White_House

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Wasn't he part of the Business Plot to install a Nazi government in the US?