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TIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in History (en.wikipedia.org)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MechCADdie on 2025-04-04 08:19:11+00:00.

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

we remain both socially and physically less independent of our authoritarian oligarchs than we were prior to the European Imperialist Era.

Horseshit opinion.

You described literal progress only to say it's the illusion of progress. You aren't even making logical sense.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You described literal progress only to say it’s the illusion of progress.

I'm describing the systematic roll-back of free travel, free trade, and freedom of individuals to co-mingle absent legal barriers.

We need paperwork to cross borders. We need documentation to legally accept offers for work. We need licenses from the state to formalize marriage. We can be arrested, detained indefinitely, and subject to physical and psychological abuse without so much as an official reason by state officials. We can be conscripted into war, extorted for our wages, and deprived of our homes and personal effects at the whims of state officials.

And to top it all off, we have an entire industrial education establishment that compels us to repeated the dogged lies that this is progress. We have state-sponsored celebrations intended to lionize our enslavers. We have parades of security service workers through the center of our townships, paid for with wealth looted from our own pockets, to drive home how occupied we all are.

How the fuck is that progress?

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