Someone on Bluesky just made a point that stabbed me in the eye:
The ENTIRE STORY about the current US presidential election campaign is: it's Joe Biden vs. the fat cats—Business Plot 2.0, as Shiv Ramdas put it.
And look what newspaper of record carried water for the coup conspirators in 1933/34?
@cstross That link sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole which lead to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre
Which was a local government coup/massacre in the US post-slavery where white supremacist ideology was explicitly and intentionally employed by shrewd politicians to manipulate poor white people into supporting them against their own best interests.
The catalyst? A black-owned newspaper claimed that not all interracial sex is rape.
Charlie Stross
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