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submitted 6 months ago by gregorum@lemm.ee to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10100829

Shout out to Eugene V. Debs - the first incarcerated person to run for US President

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[-] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 21 points 6 months ago

"Eugene V. Debs ran, but didn't win.", Captain Obvious. May the next person to run from jail have similar results.

Eugene V. Debs was in an Atlanta penitentiary, serving a ten-year sentence, when he lost the 1920 presidential election. Two years earlier, Debs, a labor leader, had spoken out against America’s involvement in World War I. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, after the prosecution argued that his antiwar speech obstructed military enrollment. The 1920 loss didn’t come as a surprise to Debs, who had run four times before. His fifth and final run, promoted with a campaign button that read “For President Convict No. 9653,” brought him nearly one million votes, says Claire Jerry, curator of political history at the National Museum of American History. President Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/run-president-prison-ask-smithsonian-180974594/

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah we don't really talk enough about just how balls to the walls America went in on WWI once it did.

We went from half the country speaking German daily to several German languages dying out in America with a flip of a switch starting with American entry into WWI, and that's not really something that just happens because the neighbors are looking at you funny.

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago

I've always felt that republicans were the ones to push pronouns mattering, to the point of obstinance; they frequently get worked up about people's genders, and refuse to use pronouns that differ from what they believe to be the "correct" ones for a person. The lefter people understand that pronouns really only matter to the person who identifies with them, so we're fine calling people whatever they want, since it's their choice and we don't really care what they choose in the end.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today -3 points 6 months ago

This is why I identify as a refrigerator.

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Go for it, bud.

[-] Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Is this the only joke you know?

[-] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Like William Anthony Perry? In that you enjoy jumping on big sweaty dudes and wrestling them to the ground while you keep an eye on those tight ends?

[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Downgrade of the millennium that

[-] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The downgrade from Debs to Trump

[-] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Do u want me to call 911

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