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Tova:
Every now and again, I see a headline along the lines of this.
He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?
And the answer is always the same. It's because there are lots of people out there predicting lots of things, and most of it is BS.
There's a reason there are jokes like, "Economists Have Predicted Nine Out Of The Last Five Recessions."
Tova:
The Wendy Rogers tweet, "Big Bird is a communist," is peak Poe's Law.
Morituri:
If they're just now getting that, they haven't been paying attention. Big Bird's been a communist by their standards since the 1980s.
Who isn't a communist on that show?
Oscar the grouch, for sure. The Cookie monster. The Count. Maybe Bert. I mean, Khalashnikov Bert definitely, but ordinary mainstream Bert too. Anybody else?
And I'm guessing somehow it's the Democrats' fault in their little universe? Like Mattel's changes to Potatohead and the Seuss people deciding to take some books out of print?
Akima:
Since "communist", to the sort of people who declare Big Bird to be one, simply means "something I don't like", who isn't one outside their little niche? I was in the Young Pioneers while I was at school in Shanghai, so I am definitely a "recovering communist"...
LeeC:
Honestly it sounds like they're trying to make McCarthyism happen again, but its incredibly dumb (not that the first time wasn't dumb either, its just a new low).
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