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mason240 on April 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Drop Dropbox

Looks like we are living a new age of McCarthyism.

CamperBob2 on April 10, 2014 [–]

Except McCarthy was seeking to destroy numerous people who had done nothing wrong. Other than that, yeah, it's the same.

macinjosh on April 10, 2014 | [–]

Hindsight is 20/20. At the time I'm sure many people believed those targeted by McCarthy had done things wrong.

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