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The Same Families Who Tried to Overthrow FDR Are Running The Government Right Now [View all] LiberalArkie Mar 13 OP

K&R orangecrush Mar 13 #1

I wonder whether the families of the heroic General Smedley Butler are still around Wicked Blue Mar 13 #2

Wish I'd written that. Kid Berwyn Mar 13 #3

Wow, I wasn't even alive back then... blue_jay Mar 13 #17

When you say that you were alive "back then" wnylib Mar 13 #20

2011 blue_jay Mar 14 #36

If it was 1938, you would be 88 today. wnylib Mar 14 #37

Yes, that would be amazing... blue_jay Mar 14 #39

BFEE "Just Us" Kid Berwyn Mar 14 #34

K&R 2naSalit Mar 13 #4

Rachel Maddow told us Easterncedar Mar 13 #5

She did... 2naSalit Mar 13 #6

I heard of the coup attempt from my grandpappy when I was a preteen. Yea, he was a socialist. LiberalArkie Mar 13 #8

Are you talking about Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism? ShazzieB Mar 13 #15

Thanks! I knew I should have checked! Easterncedar Mar 13 #16

And her podcast Glaisne Mar 14 #25

Thanks for the book info. Never heard of the book. Ordered it just now. KPN Mar 14 #26

Sort of like the High Table from the John Wick series. patphil Mar 13 #7

Take a look dweller Mar 13 #9

I remember watching this series on youtube several years ago. ShazamIam Mar 14 #35

Not exactly shocking but still crazy and fucked up LymphocyteLover Mar 13 #10

yeah, decades of erosion to norms etc and then a flood of right wing craziness in control. Jbraybarten Mar 14 #27

K&R c-rational Mar 13 #11

Greed is the most destructive addiction there is. Dave Bowman Mar 13 #12

Post removed Post removed Mar 13 #13

Your BuyMeACoffee page says you use AI. Do you use it for your poetry? highplainsdem Mar 13 #14

Great graphic! yellow dahlia Mar 13 #18

K&R for, excellent history UTUSN Mar 13 #19

FDR, one of the greats. Joinfortmill Mar 13 #21

And no longer on the dime... Only one left is the Kennedy half dollar. LiberalArkie Mar 14 #23

Thanks for this, LiberalArkie Niagara Mar 14 #22

And old people were apparently dying jfz9580m Mar 14 #24

These guys really see old people as disposable. Nope. Any people not of the noble class and of the serf class LiberalArkie Mar 14 #29

A key statement Timewas Mar 14 #28

Albert Einstein wrote an essay titled "Why Socialism?" for the First issue of Monthly Review magazine in 1949. sop Mar 14 #30

Make this a separate post, please! It's Einstein's birthday. Kid Berwyn Mar 14 #38

So glad to see someone else pointing this out. The Wielding Truth Mar 14 #31

And they're doing the absolute shittiest job possible. Fuck them all! Initech Mar 14 #32

Kicked! This fact, this history has never gotten enough attention. Instead, we write and consequrently learn a history KPN Mar 14 #33