Microblog Memes

Well you ain't done nothing if you ain't been called a red

To be fair, the JBS also thought Eisenhower was a communist, so I’m not sure we need to be listening to them

What I'm hearing is that Communism values kindness

You should be nice

Mmm actually communists are nice, so you should avoid that

Brother I hate partisanship

They think they're being "based" or whatever, but I can't see this doing anything but potentially backfiring.

If you're all in on the brain rot already, then you don't like MLK, and a post like this does nothing to move the needle.

However, if you're like most people and still respect Dr. King, and maybe are too young to be super indoctrinated in the red scare bullshit, this post could really only serve to potentially increase people's opinion of communism. Like "oh, maybe it's not evil if MLK was one, let me read more about it" or whatever.

Did that make sense? It made sense in my head...

Clearly they didn't notice Elmo's colour.

"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."

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.

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.

Honestly, MLK Jr seemed a lot less communistic than other civil rights figures of the time. MLK Jr preached about Jesus and once said “Communism and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible”.

King was constantly labelled such because at the time the USSR and the Cold War were still the largest threat to American society and way of life and perhaps even continued life on earth, meaning it was used as a label for your enemies in the sociopolitical sphere. It didn't help that the Russians claimed to promote equality which was a word King used often.

Now Malcom X and the Black Panthers? Those were some commie mfers. Malcom X wrote a letter directly to President Truman claiming to be such, and the BPP hardly tried to hide it either.

The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrew and KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin:

King was probably the only prominent American to be the target of active measures by both the FBI and the KGB. By the mid-1960s the claims by the [Communist Party of the USA] leadership that secret Party members within King’s entourage would be able to “guide” his policies had proved to be hollow. To the Centre’s dismay, King repeatedly linked the aims of the civil rights movement not to the alleged worldwide struggle against American imperialism but to the fulfillment of the American dream and “the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.”

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Having given up hope of influencing King, the Centre aimed instead at replacing him with a more radical and malleable leader. In August 1967 the Centre approved an operational plan by the deputy head of Service A, Yuri Modin, former controller of the Magnificent Five, to discredit King and his chief lieutenants by placing articles in the African press, which could then be reprinted in American newspapers, portraying King as an “Uncle Tom” who was secretly receiving government subsidies to tame the civil rights movement and prevent it threatening the Johnson administration. While leading freedom marches under the admiring glare of worldwide television, King was allegedly in close touch with the President.

So he was even more based than media lets on. Thanks, JBS

We actually consider that a positive at this point.

Stop selling me on Dr King.

Didn't he advocate for UBI?