@MisterRogersSnapped Is it really that fucked up? Like, it's kind of a matter of your priors and a lot of stuff that doesn't seem plausible is only implausible because of what you know about the world, and what you know is just what you've seen, easy to confuse with what you've read or heard. Like, apparently since 1951 the House has fasces. Roman design from way back, I can understand it being part of older designs, the Mercury dime had fasces and an olive branch, but if you're putting a big bundle of sticks (with laurels rather than an olive branch in this case) on either side of the Speaker of the House in 1951, that's kind of a thing.
I'm not making it up:
https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/House-Chamber/Rostrum/ . They are pulling down Thomas Jefferson statues and nobody seems to notice that every State of the Union since 1951 was delivered right under the symbol that fascism was named after. (Put that in Operation Paperclip's pipe and smoke it.)
You wanna go hard on conspiracies, I've got a pet conspiracy lately. The CIA's who leaked the Watergate scandal and Gerald Ford leaked the CIA's "Family Jewels" documents, a list of all the shit they did that should have them at war crimes tribunals. No one remembers that leak, the only thing you hear about Ford is he fell down the stairs once and he pardoned Nixon. (Bernays was a very early member of the CIA and was friends with Dulles.) I think that entire thing may have been just interoffice politics. (Speaking of Ford's massive unpopularity, what are the big things Carter did? Cui bono'd? And after Carter, two terms of CIA VP and one term of CIA president.)
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