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      2 days ago

      It still kinda made sense if you knew about the Palmer raids and the first red scare, however, I doubt anybody has ever been taught about those things in the US lol

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        24 hours ago

        Yeah Hoover was pretty bad… We had literal shanty towns all over the place that people called “Hoovervilles”