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[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If only this guy warned us publicly in the 80s..... https://youtu.be/d9CJmvBXNTc

Quite worth the watch. Not too long.

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day 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 1 points 19 hours 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.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

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