Where I attempt to respond at too much length to a twitter comment about propaganda in the USSR, and probably have just made it worse, because that’s the nature of online communication. Also, I think they did a pretty good job in only losing diplomatic relations for about 16 years, during most of which the government of the USSR was still a-borning.

Here are some of the tweets:

Tom: https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/975203926965399552

Me: https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/975178087879995392

https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/975180510287814656

A separate example of how safe it might be to call someone a Trump Voter

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/978894181509853184

The DPRK has never had diplomatic relations with the United States since its formation in 1948.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea–United_States_relations

Iranian diplomatic relations were broken off in 1979 and have remained the same since then.

Cuban relations were absent starting in 1961 until 2014