#The Great Depression

[peggy-elise]

Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath 1940 🧶

#old hollywood #beauty #romantic drama #historical drama #1940s cinema #henry fonda #jane darwell #john carradine #dorris bowden #the grapes of wrath #the dust bowl #the great depression #john steinbeck

[retropopcult]

"Boy on porch of general store. Roseland, Virginia." Photographed 1938 by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration.

#vintage #1930s #The Great Depression #Coca-Cola

[tomorrowusa]

"Nazi Town, USA" is a 2024 feature in PBS's American Experience series. It looks into the surprising degree of influence which Nazis had in the United States in the 1930s. There were even Nazi summer camps for kids.

It can be viewed (probably for a limited amount of time) at the series link above. Here's a preview...

To explore the topic more deeply, check out Rachel Maddow's excellent 8-episode podcast Ultra.

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | an MSNBC original podcast

Ultra has somewhat more emphasis on Nazi attempts to penetrate government.

Those espousing Nazi-friendly views in the 1930s did not disappear when the US entered World War II and fascism became very unfashionable. Those half-hidden feelings hibernated and occasionally emerged from time to time to poison discourse and endanger democracy. There are obvious echos of that movement today.

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[goshyesvintageads]

American Telephone & Telegraph Co, 1937

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[theleftycanadianradical]

Socialists, communists and the labour movement are responsible for winning the reforms that built the lifestyle that the Right likes to romanticize. Then they sold out the working class by adopting neoliberalism which has wrought destruction and inequality. Fascism is not the solution.

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[texaschainsawmascara]

Paper Moon (1973)

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[masterhallmark]

For anyone having trouble reading it:

Talespin takes place during the same time as The Great Depression. In "Sky Pirates" the pirates sing the lyrics "It keeps us in the air and off the street!" That's why Don Karnage has such a large crew, they're all victims of The Great Depression.

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[greenteacryptid]

Fuck "This is my Roman Empire"

What's your Great Depression??

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[thebeesareback]

Thieves! Fire! Murder! Such a thing had not happened since first he came to the Mountain! His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. His fire belched forth, the hall smoked, he shook the mountain-roots. He thrust his head in vain at the little hole, and then coiling his length together, roaring like thunder underground, he sped from his deep lair through its great door, out into the huge passages of the mountain-palace and up towards the Front Gate.

The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, p199-200

Not, in fact, intended as scathing critique of Jeff Bezos, but given that the book was published about eight years after the start of the Great Depression, probably influenced by similar men.

#history #capitalism #the great depression #jeff bezos #the hobbit #lord of the rings #lotr #bilbo baggins #jrr tolkien #tolkien

[thoughtportal]

poverty and capitalism

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[tomsmusictaste]

#as it is #as it is band #/\\\ #/\s it is #patty walters #never happy ever after #okay. #the great depression #i went to hell and back #dial tones #no way out #cheap shots and setbacks #i miss 2003 #the truth i'll never tell #meme #shitpost #pop-punk

[retropopcult]

"New Orleans sandwich shop. Orleans Parish, Louisiana." Photographed January 1936 by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration.

#vintage #1930s #The Great Depression #street scene #grocery store #eatery

[tomorrowusa]

House Republicans have taken time out from doing nothing (except Speaker drama) all this year to launch an impeachment inquiry. Orders for this move probably came from Donald Trump who is planning his dictatorship of retribution while fighting criminal charges in four courts and civil charges in a fifth.

Considering that Republicans could have done this almost any time in 2023, it's not surprising that they picked a time of improving news on the economic front.

Don't be fooled by GOP dupe influencers claiming that things are worse now than during the Great Depression. Some losers who are economically illiterate seem to be spreading that disinformation. Yeah, when prices are artificially low due to deflation caused by economic catastrophe it doesn't mean people had it easy.

Before Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal got going during his first term, the unemployment rate in the US was 24.9%. That's even worse than it was during Trump's botched handling of the COVID-19 emergency in the US in 2020.

Republicans, if given full power, would drastically cut back or eliminate programs designed to reduce poverty. By coincidence, those programs were initiated under Democratic administrations.

Social Security (Franklin Roosevelt)

Unemployment Insurance (Franklin Roosevelt)

Food Stamps/SNAP (Lyndon Johnson)

Medicare (Lyndon Johnson)

Medicaid (Lyndon Johnson)

Obamacare (Barack Obama)

Republicans claim that those programs increase the debt. But as soon as GOP administrations take office they hypocritically stop worrying about the debt and give gigantic tax breaks to their filthy rich contributors while trying to strangle anti-poverty programs. BTW, Bill Clinton balanced the budget in his second term with revenue raised by increasing taxes on the filthy rich during his first term.

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[justalittlerandomartist]

I WANNA WRITE A HISTORY BASED MUSIC LIN MANUEL MIRANDA TOBY MARLOW AND LUCY MOSS HAVE INSPIRED ME PICK A CATEGORY AND ONCE ITS DONE IF YOU HAVE ANY CONTRIBUTIONS YOUR WELCOME TO ADD THEM

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[whentheycrypositivity]

*i start to transform*

n-nipahh..! *it's so painful but i smile through it...

a grimace of pain appears on my face as my shell cracks... revealing....*

hnghhh... it was a painful metamorphosis... but now i am in my true form..!!!

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[racefortheironthrone]

What are your thoughts about Andrew Mellon and how much blame he has for the Great Depression?

Andrew Mellon was a bastard, and his policies hurt way more than they helped, but I don't hold with the monetarist explanation for the Great Depression. I think Keynes was right.

#history #economic history #the great depression #monetarism #keynesianism