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Kid Berwyn

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38. Make this a separate post, please! It's Einstein's birthday.

Reply to sop (Reply #30)

Sat Mar 14, 2026, 05:29 PM

Mar 14

Please. Guy was born on Pi day. When AI is gonna send the same "limitless" profits at the expense of an unemployed humanity to the Ellisons and their ilk, its message is something all should read and share.

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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