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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Brexit, Russia Today (RT) and Comrade Jill Stein, willing tool of a fascist autocrat. [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)10. As Pampago indicated, you're not seeing cold war red baiting here.
Putin is being judged by his actions and they are plenty deserving of the criticism.
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Brexit, Russia Today (RT) and Comrade Jill Stein, willing tool of a fascist autocrat. [View all]
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
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K R. Incredible. I wonder if we'll ever know how much Russian money went to her campaign
uhnope
Aug 2016
#1
It should be worrisome, but I think Stein is too intoxicated with the attentions she has received
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#26
Wow, I never thought I'd see cold war red baiting on DU, especially in 2016
Feeling the Bern
Aug 2016
#2
No worries! It sailed right over my head too! Till I looked up some acronyms and saw "feel the burn"
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#45
Wow. . .a Phil Ochs insult. Sad great liberal singers like Ochs, Chapin, Seeger and Guthrie get
Feeling the Bern
Aug 2016
#12
"Red baiting" might apply if Putin were a communist, socialist or even a liberal.
pampango
Aug 2016
#7
It's not classic red baiting. You're looking for a reason to call it that in order to dismiss the
stevenleser
Aug 2016
#32
I expected it to be attacked as "red-baiting." It's the quickest, and laziest way to
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#37
Wow, I never thought I'd read someone so glaringly misuse "red-bating" on DU
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#34
Hands down the laziest way to attempt to dismiss the content, and uncomfortable revelations
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#40
Like Stein's (haha) "VP" selection, who calls Sanders' supporters "white supremacists"
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#39
I imagine they'll keep trying in unclever and utterly transparent ways to tell us
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#42