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... But we know he was lying. I mean, there's a fair bit of evidence that supports one hypothesis and makes the other look stupid. If we presume he wasn't lying, all of the following is true: McCarthy, a known liar about stolen valor, somehow gets a list of communists (that constantly changes...

All the McCarthy stuff can go into the same thread, because it's the same topic every time, and people who subscribed to one thread won't know the other stuff. Now I am going to have to move the posts again, and probably ask a super mod to do the actual merge. Please just stay in the same thread.

No, it won't. Again, he was a scumbag and a liar who ruined anticommunism for generations. Calling him correct was also wrong. He just accused a lot of people, and some of those many were guilty because the State Department was so infested. Why do you @Aldarion keep starting new threads about...

https://the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/the-problem-with-mccarthy-was-he-failed.3376 Sorry for the delay, I'm trying to figure out how to merge threads, haven't done that before.

Bwahaha, no. McCarthy did more for communism than any other American through his lies. We also already have a thread about this that I'll merge this into.

He claimed he had a list, then kept changing the number of people on the list.

If you go into a store and randomly spray people with bullets to show how great you are, and one happens to kill a terrorist, have you done good? Most would say no. That's basically what McCarthy did, but with accusations instead of bullets, and gave a great excuse to commies forever after.