TIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933
TIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25013647
Although no one was prosecuted, the congressional committee final report said, "there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient.
Real threat of coup d'état but no consequence.
Like a feeling of déjà vu.
The definition of a people „asleep at the wheel“. Today we have normalized it so much, you get ridiculed for being „woke“.
I always want to point out that the same people complaining about "woke" things... Were the ones constantly saying "wake up people" with whatever conspiracy theory grasped their homunculus brains for the week.
They were telling everyone to wake up, and are now surprised that people did.
Of course there were consequences, they started with Paperclip and ended with Musk as the puppet-master behind the president of the US.
Oh you meant negative consequences for the fascists... my bad.
with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax"
Funny how mainstream media bends over preventively all the time (elon nazi salute being the latest I have seen dismissed like that).
The press in Germany was also overeager to normalize and stifle alarms. Even the left leaning ones.
Hi from hessen. Stop reading „mainstream“ propaganda and read independent news like the taz (horizontally organized newspaper owned by employees and subscribers afaik) or 404 media.
The billionaire media is the equivalent of the german „volksempfänger“ that was only built to stream nazi propaganda into households.
Yeah, in france too "he is neurodivergent!" "It wasn't a 'real' nazi salute" and so on.
Why jump the boat like that?
Guess part of their job they have is to calm the population or something.