Also, Kill Communists. Behead Communists. Roundhouse kick a Communist into the concrete. Slam dunk a Communist scumbag into the trashcan. Crucify filthy Commies. Defecate in a Commies plate. Launch Commies into the sun. Stir fry Communists in a wok. Toss Commies into active volcanoes. Urinate into a Commie’s gas tank. Judo throw Communists into a wood chipper. Twist Communists heads off. Report Communists to the FBI. Karate chop Communists in half. Curb stomp Communists. Trap Commmunists in quicksand. Crush Communists in the trash compactor. Liquefy Communists in a vat of acid. Eat Communists. Dissect Communists. Send Communists to Funkytown. Stomp Commie skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate Communists in the oven. Lobotomize Communists. Mandatory abortions for Communists. Grind Commie corpses in the garbage disposal. Drown Commies in fried chicken grease. Vaporize Communists with a ray gun. Feed Commies to alligators. Slice Communists with a katana. Last but not least, I spit on a Communist’s grave
Bingo. Roughly 95% of self-described 'communists' in the US are walking definitions of bourgeois, and plan to inherit mommy and daddy's wealth in one way or another once they're done slumming it and pretending to be 'interesting, sensitive artists.' Not one of them gives a single fuck about working class people - the vast majority of them actively despise them - and they couldn't lead a revolution if their lives depended on it. The 5% who are card-carrying, devoted communists are alcoholics drowning in despair over the state of 'communism' in the US, publishing articles in 40 year old periodicals that aren't read by anyone outside of that 5%.
I know which event this video is making fun of, and as much as it is a meme to say Eisenhower was tricked into think Arbenz was a communist by the Banana lobby, Arbenz's wife in her autobiography said she and her husband both were communists. Also, according to the book "The Fish that ate the Whale," there was a mass, soil based, extinction event of bananas happening across Central America which is why United Fruit was extremely pissed that Arbenz collectivized their "land reserves" that they had payed for after Arbenz refused to pay for the land after it's price was reevaluated. Not saying that everything that happened was justified or good, but the Arbenz fiasco is often over simplified.
Nah, McCarthy was right about spies in the US government, but that should have been obvious to everyone that wasn't a New Deal Democrat. He was a clown who discredited the anti-communist right by going after General Marshall only to get exposed for trying to stop his chief counsel's gay lover from being drafted into the Army. Interestingly, RFK was almost chosen to be McCarthy's chief counsel and got passed over for Roy Cohn. It would be interesting to see how his legacy would be viewed if he was more closely tied to the "Kennedy Camelot" myth.
