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Re:$500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments with a Guar... by sjellen on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:41PM (#34792952)
This, except.. its not unintentional.
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Re:$500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments with a Guar... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:05PM (#34793316)
Lyndon Johnson has a great quote about cornering voting blocks that way.
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Re:$500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments with a Guar... by nwah1 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:27PM (#34799256)
Would be interested to hear it, if you can dig it up.
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Re:$500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments with a Guar... by workingdog on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:56PM (#34799454)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/
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Re:$500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments with a Guar... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:04PM (#34799530)
It’s provenance is at least as good as the equally inflammatory Nixon war on drugs quote everyone here assumes to be factual.

https://intellectualtakeout.org/2016/10/did-lbj-say-ill-have...

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