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• Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Holy shit it’s literally called the “Business Plot”. Horrifying that nobody was prosecuted. I imagine proof in those days may have been letters and phone calls, but proof of either could have been hard to collect or just avoided altogether by the perpetrators.

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  • vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should definitely look into it. A lot of the proof is Smedley Butler, an extremely interesting man.

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    • Illuminostro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I tweeted Oliver Stone about 10 years ago, suggesting he should make a movie about Butler. No response.

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      • vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I want to make a series about him. Start it off as a pure military action show, slowly make the transition over like he did. Suck people in with the action, y’know?

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