• insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]
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    1 year ago

    Some personal favourites of mine:

    • The masochism tango
    • Vatican rag
    • So long mum
    • Wernher Von Braun
    • Who's next

    Funny guy, seemed like someone who wanted people to basically be decent to eachother and not get bent out of shape over propaganda. Naturally that meant he was highly controversial in his time.

      • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]
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        1 year ago

        I just can't get over the line from one of his live performances: "China, who we call 'red' China, exploded a nuclear bomb, which we called a device"

        I don't think I've seen as pithy a skewering of the insane distortions of red scare era propaganda.