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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Margot Robbie, Christian Bale, and John David Washington, were in a movie about that plot, Amsterdam(2022).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I thought there was a movie but I was having trouble finding the name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find someone mentioned this. THANKS

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Interestingly nobody was prosecuted for this, even though the House of Reps determined that it was real. Apparently "conspiracy" isn't always the crime it's supposed to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

In light of the final outcome of Jan 6, it seems to be exactly what one should have expected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We really need better laws and an independent law enforcement agency to enforce them. A modern day group of untouchables.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think what we need is to take away money's influence on politics. The most effective way I know to do that is by capping wealth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Ingrate Ostriches Kill in Yosemite Antique Auction Rehearsals. Jesus Christ, someone should do something about this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Arresting people for conspiracy is only for Rosenbergs, not for the rich.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know more about FDR than I do about the last president of turkey. Who the fuck was president before Erdoğan? Seriously it's been 25 years of Erdoğan

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

TIL: Abdullah Gül

Though I find the predecesor before Gül even more interesting: Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Apparently he was the last secular president of Turkey. "During receptions at the presidential palace, Sezer refused to allow women wearing the headscarf to attend citing the laws on the separation of religion and state at the time; this resulted in the wives of Abdullah Gül and Erdoğan, Hayrünnisa Gül and Emine Erdoğan respectively, being barred from attendance. Erdoğan later said in public that he had 'suffered a lot' from Sezer.[3]" So he refused the wives of who would be his successors.

"During the 2014 presidential election, won by Erdoğan, Sezer openly refused to vote, citing the lack of a secularist candidate as his reason" Turkey has a strong secularist tradition and I really hope it returns sometime. Atatürk is still being celebrated, but do people still believe in his secular ideals?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Atatürk is being used as a political gateway to Islamism... Somehow.

There are people who thoroughly believe in kemalism, but the modern CHP isn't even kemalist themselves

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Turkey also is weirdly prejudiced nowadays

If you're not Muslim you're mocked. Converting from islam is even worse. And the 'Progressives' in center left parties got a weird case of being prejudiced and homophobic

And every 5 years there is a new Kurdish leftwing party, they keep banning them for cooperating with terrorists or whatever the real reason is

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Man, Smedley Butler underwent a hell of an arc. From being a proud soldier of American imperialism, to becoming the father of modern police forces, to foiling a fascist plot to overthrow the country and becoming an outspoken anti-war advocate. He went from one end of the political spectrum to the other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Great Behind the Bastards episode on smedley

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I listened to an audiobook about him.

I'm not sure I e ever been so impressed by the conduct and ethics of any other individual on earth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

He also won the Congressional Medal of Honor twice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This story all comes down to how much you trust Smedley, which, having read his biography, I'm not sure that I do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Smedley was a G, and the committee who looked into basically found wrongdoing but did nothing about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not? He's a pretty decorated war hero.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I mean, his early life was riddled with fucked up actions (mostly carrying out orders to create Banana Republics), but it's exactly why he turned around on the government and called them out on the bullshit. There is very real evidence the plot existed, but those responsible escaped trial most likely due to Roosevelt's interference (strange how robber barons suddenly got quiet about his New Deal).

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