Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act - Wikipedia
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  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    Amazing how it happens almost to the year. Hopefully the devs will nerf some of the bosses pretty soon, this glitch is super annoying.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    I would never have heard of this if it weren’t for Dave Barry and his book “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”.

    • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spaceEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      … it really seems as though old Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce, Caussidière for Danton, L. Blanc for Robespierre, Barthélemy for Saint-Just, Flocon for Carnot, and the moon-calf together with the first available dozen debt-encumbered lieutenants for the little corporal and his band of marshals.

      Engels in a letter to Marx, 1851

      (As a side-note, neither Marx nor Engels believed this to be much more than a witty observation, meaning: They did not assume this was some sort of grand law of history, just a tendency of similar dynamics persisting and reoccurring.)