Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918
by vkou on Saturday November 26, 2022 @02:33PM
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No, we don't silence people for their own good, we silence people for our own good.
Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918
by Spooky23 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:51PM
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Sure. The problem is, who is “us” and who is “them”. Unfortunately the 20th century shows what people are capable of in pursuit of protecting “our” stuff, whatever that may be.
Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918
by MisterMower on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:53PM
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Woodrow Wilson was the worst president in US history. If I had a time machine, I would go back in time to kill Wilson, not Hitler. Hitler would be a no name artist if it weren’t for Wilson completely fucking up WWI and the peace thereafter.
Fun fact: Wilson resegregated the entire federal government and even went so far as to show a KKK propaganda film at the White House. The guy was a rabid racist.
Additionally, Wilson had a stroke that left him blind and paralyzed in 1919 and for the remainder of his presidency his second wife and doctor manipulated him so heavily that there is serious debate as to who actually was in control of the White House during those years. Some historians call Edith Wilson, his second wife, America’s first female president the manipulation was so effective.
John Adams kicked it off, and Woodrow Wilson’s craven politics represented a moment where the country could have moved in an awful direction.
It’s unfortunate that we live in an era where many people have mastered the art of mass manipulation. We’re in an era where we’re vulnerable to the same sort of grinding warfare that WW1 became, and the information landscape is a barren one full of propaganda and junk.