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[twincityhacker]

Ever since I started studing the fourties and fifties, I've always maintained that Truman was batshit insane. Espeicaly since he was framed to be completely reasonable and so-forth, he doesn't particuarly appear to be the very crazy man that he is.

Sadly, the only people who seem to agree to me are the people who really go about with thetinfoil hats.

Ah, the joys of putting together a project that deals with McCarthyism. I can go on and on and no one cares because it's "history." Or sitting out sunning themselves is more important than getting our damm project done, so we're meeting at odd hours when it's inconvient for the people who are doing crap and hunky-dory for the people who don't show up. At least the presentation is tomorrow and it will be all over.

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[viralmemory.livejournal.com]

I think we could all do with a little refresher on McCarthyism; I know I could. As you're studying it, does it give an eerie feeling of familiarity?

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

It's the other way for me: I studied McCarthyism before I got interested in current events, so the "now" looks more like the "then" than the other way around. But yes, the smear-tatictics and the "soft on terror" shit does look far too familiar for my liking.

Only framed from the White House instead of the Congress, obviously. And much harder to reign in because of it.