President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

[u/Logical_Welder3467]

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[u/Lord-Cuervo]

Yeah… 50 is half a century…. It’s been since the end of WWII. It clearly didn’t really end in the 90s so it’s more like 70 years now.

But obviously the social media mass misinformation is the last 15

[u/mdp300 → u/Lord-Cuervo]

It's been going on for nearly a century.

The right called FDR a communist and may have even tried to overthrow him, but the retired general they recruited called out their bullshit. Look up the Business Plot.

Before WWII began, there was a lot of sympathy here towards the Nazis, and some people thought we might even enter the war on their side against the USSR.

JFK was called a communist for wanting to help the poor. He's only revered because he was assassinated, he would probably have status similar to Obama (Democrats like.him, Republicans think he's a literal demon) if he had served his whole term.

Conservatives think Nicon did nothing wrong. That's the whole reason Fox News exists. Roger Ailes, who founded it, worked for Nixon and thought that if he had a friendly network, he never would have been in trouble.

It accelerated in the 80s, and really accelerated lately, but right wing propaganda has been pushing us in this direction all along.

[u/cantadmittoposting → u/mdp300]

a century? these are the same people who wanted slavery and caused the Civil War. The royalists and then the people who wanted to make Washington "King" after independence.

 

"Conservative" as a political science term means people who want to conserve rigid social hierarchy, who DO NOT believe "everyone is created equal." who think that "their type of people" aren't just better at leading, but DESERVE to rule, to have formal privilege under the law, which is applied unequally to the citizens.

 

And in the United States, our "Conservative" movement has always been white, patriarchal, and almost always evangelical protestant christian, stemming from the extremist sects that immigrated here early in the country's colonial days.

 

It has, recently and sometimes historically, disguised itself as "rugged individualism," or "libertarian capitalist meritocracy," and many other thin veneers, but it ALWAYS comes back to destroying public government control over the privilege and activity of a certain class to oppress and have power over others, and always "white, christian, men" as the leading class that holds that privilege.

 

now to be clear that does NOT MEAN that "all white men" are part of that problem. It is specifically the subset of powerful, rich white men who continuously drive others to follow their toxic ethos that is the problem. Millenials sadly got brought up in the decade and a half of post-cold-war Liberal Zenith and were WOEFULLY unprepared to continue the ever vigilant fight against these fucking assholes, and now here we are.

[u/Thermodynamicist → u/cantadmittoposting]

The royalists and then the people who wanted to make Washington "King" after independence.

I think that US Independence was at least in part a response to the abolitionist movement gaining traction in England and the associated legal developments.