The Conspiratorial Business Plot of 1933
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In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR's economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.

In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR’s economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.

    • neanderthal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A lot of things aren’t taught that should be.

      • Tulsa Massacre
      • Pinkerton Massacre
      • Shirt waist fire
      • Redlining and other forms of discrimination against non whites
      • Henry Kissingers Vietnam plot
      • Battle of Blaire Mountain
      • The history of US drug laws
      • Early Squabbles between Christian sects
      • Of course the business plot
      • How corporate lobbying has affected how we run critical things like transportation and medicine
      • How early gun control laws were specifically targeting the Black Panthers
      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Shit, if we’re opening the door on Kissinger, we might as well talk about his role in the Chilean coup, Argentina Junta, the bombings of Cambodia and Laos, Bangladesh independence, and more. You know the saying “only the good die young”? There’s a reason he’s 100 years old.