2016 Postmortem

LanternWaste

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34. Wow, I never thought I'd read someone so glaringly misuse "red-bating" on DU

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 04:19 PM

Aug 2016

Wow, I never thought I'd read someone so glaringly misuse "red-bating" on DU, regardless of the year, or the insertion of a less-than-clever cover of a pop song.

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Brexit, Russia Today (RT) and Comrade Jill Stein, willing tool of a fascist autocrat. [View all] Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 OP

K R. Incredible. I wonder if we'll ever know how much Russian money went to her campaign uhnope Aug 2016 #1

We know for sure that Putin funded the National Front in France frazzled Aug 2016 #16

Somehow I don't think illegal is particularly worrisome to Putin Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #19

But it would be worrisome to the candidates or parties accepting the money frazzled Aug 2016 #20

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

for a second there I couldn't tell you were joking n/t uhnope Aug 2016 #4

Too bad it's all true, right? EricMaundry Aug 2016 #5

what does FTB mean? n/t uhnope Aug 2016 #6

The poster being responded to is called "Feeling the Bern?" Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #41

ok thx. I imagined something else n/t uhnope Aug 2016 #44

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

Your associating them with Putin's messenger girl is hardly a compliment EricMaundry Aug 2016 #18

"Red baiting" might apply if Putin were a communist, socialist or even a liberal. pampango Aug 2016 #7

Agreed rjsquirrel Aug 2016 #11

" Comrade Jill Stein" - the op. Warren Stupidity Aug 2016 #13

I say "comrade Trump" all the time, tovarish rjsquirrel Aug 2016 #14

and the Communists of the past became the Fascists of today. n/t uhnope Aug 2016 #17

Putin was never actually a Communist obamanut2012 Aug 2016 #24

Oh good gawd Warren. Remind me again which primary Comrade Stein was in? Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #21

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

It doesn't fit the definition of "classic red-bating." LanternWaste Aug 2016 #35

As Pampago indicated, you're not seeing cold war red baiting here. stevenleser Aug 2016 #10

Except Putin is a fascist and corrupt as hell obamanut2012 Aug 2016 #23

I believe he forgot his sarcams tag? I took it as parody? Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #28

Wow, I never thought I'd read someone so glaringly misuse "red-bating" on DU LanternWaste Aug 2016 #34

Propaganda dupe Stein NBachers Aug 2016 #3

Bargle swap Flanders! Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #36

Plus ça change... Alkene Aug 2016 #8

See Pampangos #7. nt stevenleser Aug 2016 #9

Hands down the laziest way to attempt to dismiss the content, and uncomfortable revelations Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #40

We know the love Drumpf professes for Russia and Putin KewlKat Aug 2016 #15

Comrade Stein probably has her own coffee mug at RT, she's there so often. Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #25

With General effing Flynn obamanut2012 Aug 2016 #22

Yup. Dead animals around her neck when she professes vegetarianism Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #27

K/R Old and In the Way Aug 2016 #29

I think the whole Trump campaign is a Putin Op workinclasszero Aug 2016 #30

Plenty on the American left embrace Russia. Adrahil Aug 2016 #31

Yep, Orwell called it Negative Nationalism. stevenleser Aug 2016 #33

Like Stein's (haha) "VP" selection, who calls Sanders' supporters "white supremacists" Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #39

And yet... wysi Aug 2016 #38

I imagine they'll keep trying in unclever and utterly transparent ways to tell us Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #42

K & R Scurrilous Aug 2016 #43