• yogurt@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      Pogchamp gamer fascist propaganda

      The announcement trailer for Cold War is built around footage from a television interview, in 1984, between Yuri Bezmenov, the K.G.B. defector, and G. Edward Griffin, the American conspiracy theorist and longtime member of the John Birch Society. In the interview, Bezmenov claims that the Soviet Union was working to subvert the United States by brainwashing American students into becoming Marxist-Leninists. Griffin, now eighty-nine, recently hosted the fifth installment of the annual rally known as the Red Pill Expo, which, the New York Daily News reported, “gathered hundreds of unmasked conspiracy believers, along with militia leaders, Trump backers, anti-vaxxers and religious crusaders.”

      Bezemov lost it in the 80s and was working for the Unification Church and John Birch Society saying whatever they wanted, a few years after the interview he killed himself trying to get drunk on antifreeze.

      "Schuman had deteriorated both physically and socially … excessive drinking noted … now separated … become transient … now works with lower level fringe groups of little consequence,” said a 1980 report from the RCMP Security Service, the precursor to CSIS.

    • Tyfud@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      This is a lot of MAGA like propaganda by a thoroughly disgraced crazy person talking to a conspiracy theorist who both ended up going batshit insane in the 80’s.

      This video should not be taken seriously. I watched it, and it’s pretty much conspiracy laden ultra right wing nonsense.

      Like, if Alex Jones was around in the 80’s, this would be a clip from his show.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        3 days ago

        I tell myself Lemmy just doesn’t follow links as long as the comment has a populist vibe, but there’s still a lot more cryptofascism going around.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Too bad humanity isn’t in the habit of listening to warnings.

      So annoying, because things don’t need to be shit.