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133: "I was an Abusive Drunk for the FBI" - The Matt Cvetic Story (Patreon)

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2022-08-20 10:00:03
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2023-08

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TENE explores the life and career of Slovenian-American snitch, Matt Cvetic, by watching his absurdly fantastical biopic from 1951 titled, "I Was a Communist for the FBI". The boyzies dissect this genre-defining example of HUAC-era propaganda and compare it to Cvetic's actual (terrible) experiences.

This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the (deep) state and the alienation, nihilism and desperation produced by the capitalist system. And how to get rid of all that. Something like that...

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a clash of purple

Speaking as an American, basically everyone I know above a certain age (and quite a few below that age) still believes the message of this movie. If you're a diehard American nationalist (and most Americans are) you basically have to, because they take it as a point of faith that the United States is the greatest and best country that has ever existed or could ever exist, and while we might have problems those problems either aren't real and were made up by jealous foreigners, or are the result of people from other countries moving here and messing everything up, or yeah they're real and they're our fault but we're still less bad than everyone else. Like, the U.S. might have had some people die from COVID (if they believe in COVID) but when other countries say they've had fewer deaths they're just lying to make us look bad. Or, oh, we don't have any provisions for universal health care or college education, but the countries that do have those things all have to charge so much in taxes to pay for them that we're still better... somehow. I mean, I personally know people under the age of 50 who still think it matters that Bernie Sanders once visited the Soviet Union. Although at the same time regular people can't really take communism seriously as a threat anymore, so they also still like Bernie at the same time. So I guess they'd watch this movie and be like "Yeah, communism is an evil mind virus created by gangsters who want to rule the world, but you have to admit they run a pretty tight ship. I'd vote for them." I mean, I constantly try to keep an open mind and remind myself that all people are equally insane in their own way, and Americans aren't special in that regard, but... it's really hard sometimes...