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Coworker Randomly Told Me Today That Woodrow Wilson Was A Socialist (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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You know, the racist professor who threw the leader of the actual Socialist Party in jail for opposing his signature national security policy and who later initiated the first Red Scare of the 20th century.

I know to expect this from American conservatives but, sometimes the extent of their political illiteracy gets through and astounds me.

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

its truly amazing how Wilson remains a bugbear of the unhinged right over 100 years after

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He was making the government do stuff very-smart

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 7 points 6 hours ago

Leauge of Nations? That's practically the UN. And we all know the UN is a Globalist plot for the Big Corps to install Cultural Marxist FEMA camps in our Wall Marts

[–] Red_Renewal_Cosmonaut@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

the state of politics in the west

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 19 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Yesterday a coworker told me fossil fuel is actually good everyone and that all that stuff about being bad was only true like 10 years ago

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 8 points 6 hours ago

they've got a new kind that actually prevents cancer

[–] GrosMichel@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago

Does he huff gas?