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senseandsensibility

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1. This reminds me of a scene from the Grapes of Wrath

Reply to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Mon Dec 15, 2025, 06:47 PM

Dec 15

where local representatives of banks that were neighbors of the "Oakies" and known to them and their families kicked them off their farms that they had owned for generations during the Dust Bowl. The sense of betrayal and of working against "your own" is the same.

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