I've always wondered how Welles managed to survive in Franco's Spain.

It took the audience 0.2 seconds to get the joke.

@lefty4letty

Жыл бұрын

yankkk audience ofc

@Ceej_MM

11 ай бұрын

​@@lefty4lettythis was on Parkinson

Based

@gopherstate777

9 ай бұрын

Upon.

@SamWesting

6 ай бұрын

@@gopherstate777:whoosh:

The audience didn't get the joke, they're english.

Strange, I couldn't find any evidence that Martin Dies, Jr, was ever jailed for any reason...

funny even back then the anti communists couldn't define communism.

@tedpilledtonysoprano5512

10 ай бұрын

Remember back when their generation thought desegregation was communist?

@jensenwalsh621

8 ай бұрын

@@tedpilledtonysoprano5512 They still do! There are still halfwits out there trying to shove prejudice down people's throats, they just blend it with different things to try to hide the taste. The most recent crusade has been "Parents' Rights" to pull their kids out of school because schools teach "Critical Race Theory". What is "Critical Race Theory", you might ask? Well, apparently it's lesson plans that emphasize the mistreatment of nonwhite people in America, especially during slavery and Jim Crow. "This is racist," they crow. "This history will teach white kids to hate themselves." But what they usually shrink away from is the fact that white supremacy was (still is, really) literally a feature of life in America and reinforced by the laws of the time, so you can usually twist them into knots by pointing out that in their "free speech" crusade they're actually trying to sanitize and neuter the history that they claim to love! Also present is the "Lavender Scare" that happened about the same time Welles dealt with the Red Scare, in which people were accused of being gay. I was at a school board meeting where a very well-dressed (and I imagine well-paid) conservative activist from outside the district gave a slick speech about how keeping a kid's gay or trans identity secret from their abusive parents was somehow abuse in and of itself. But following that speaker was a literal mob of kids from that district telling stories about how they had been bullied or even physically attacked for being part of the LGBT community, so the board quickly put an end to the conservative's motion. TL;DR: Rightists will always bitch about not being able to abuse people whenever they want, and that's why the rest of us ought to be willing to fight to protect people. Most of the time all you have to do is point out how ridiculous their points are!

@downunderrob

7 ай бұрын

They still couldn't!

@Saturnia2014

2 ай бұрын

​@@tedpilledtonysoprano5512The rotten offspring of that generation still believes that desegregation is communism. White America is racist on a schizophrenic level.

@user-vv9np5iq7n

2 ай бұрын

They were Communists also. The entire affair was a scam to make the dupe American populace believe that something was being done to combat Communism when in reality they were insidiously installing it. Nikita Kruschev said that Communism would take America without a single shot being fired and he was 100% correct. Today the government spies on everyone using Artificial Intelligence in ways that would have the former Soviet Union totally jealous.

progressive today is pretty close to communist - don't think back then it was

@grubernitsch

3 ай бұрын

Interesting. What do you mean exactly?

@freeman7296

3 ай бұрын

@@grubernitsch he called himself a progressive - but I'm not sure the progressives of past generations are as far left and socialist as they are today. The world in which they lived was so much different than today, which is why I think it.

@freeman7296

3 ай бұрын

@@grubernitsch and I could also be biased as I think he's amazing and don't want to see him in that way - so I could be totally wrong about him and probably am.

@reginaldcampos5762

2 ай бұрын

Most of today's progressives are liberal or social democrats, not full blown communists. At least, that's what I see.

@Mediados

Ай бұрын

I think it's about high time we stop calling people communist in a bad way. Communism is an idea of equality, not a fascist enemy. It just has been painted as wrong to think left in America for far too long.

I always knew Orson was a creep

@b2meb2meb2me

29 күн бұрын

His realness terrifies you

@AlanSmithe

23 күн бұрын

How is he a creep?