and he got really pissed off that I dissed the scumbag Trump II enabling hypocrite and Murrow gang banger, the one who bugged out to France when the shit hit the fan here, George Clooney.
Typically, Simps comment which I've chosen not to post contains lies about what I've said in the past.
I'm choosing to not post and answer it due to my having answered the same lies he's told going back at least nine years, probably longer - I got tired of looking at my archive to check the first occasion he did that. I don't want to answer it yet again only to have the idiot not be able to process the arguments I made. I've answered it over and over again, each time pointing out that I refuse to do the dishonest and idiotic thing, choose a side between HUAC, Red Channels and Sen. Joseph McCarthy OR the Stalinists like the Hollywood 10 who - and this is probably a surprise to Simps - were not prosecuted by Joe McCarthy (who never prosecuted a case in his life) but by J. Parnell Thomas and the House of Representatives. I point that out because in one of my answers to him I gleefully noted that J. Parnell Thomas was prosecuted for fraud in conducting a kickback scheme and ended up serving time in the same country-club prison that some of the Hollywood 10 did their soft time in.
I have, by the way, noted the entirely innocent victims of the red scare many times, as well.
I also pointed out that as the lauded and celebrated Stalinists such as the Hollywood 10 are treated as as First Amendment martyrs (Most of those who do that celebrating, probably including Simps, are rather vague on the other relevant Amendments so I don't mention them in this context.) the hero of the Hollywood 10, Stalin, was continuing as he had all along, torturing, killing hundreds, thousands and millions, including writers and political thinkers and artists and, ironically enough, many of his fellow Communists who he thought might be too powerful and so dangerous to his reign of terror. It remained OK with some of them, like Lester Cole, that Stalin deprived hundreds of millions of the rights that they and their supporters complained that the Stalinists were deprived of by the cold warriors and Hollywood moguls and publishers.
I have, also, by the way, noted that one of the earliest critics of the developing Soviet dictatorship was that other hero of such lefty stuff, Emma Goldman, though she certainly had her warts and blemishes, as well. And that's not to mention the liberals who certainly had nothing good to say about the red scare, those who founded things like Freedom House (also at least one of the authors of The Ugly American, I forget which one) who I slammed for their support of American involvement in the Vietnam war.
Anyway, if you're interested in what I wrote about that as opposed to what a truly stupid old man says I said about it, look up the relevant search terms in my archive. That my thinking on it is more complicated and takes into account such things as the reality of what the persecuted commies supported such as the mass murders of Stalin and why I choose to loathe both sides of the cause celebre due to that, you can read it there. I don't see much of a point in going over that history again other than to correct the lies told to support one or the other side, I'd rather concentrate on such issues among the living for whom something might be done other than make yet another movie or play about it. You'll learn absolutely nothing important from that treatment of it, show biz should stop fucking around with history, they only end up lying about it and persuading the gullible, history-deficient, post-literates that their lies are true.
George Clooney can go to hell.
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