mozz@mbin.grits.dev to Politics@beehaw.org · 6 months agoThis Trumpy Long Island Politician Plans to Deputize Armed Civilianswww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThis Trumpy Long Island Politician Plans to Deputize Armed Civilianswww.thedailybeast.commozz@mbin.grits.dev to Politics@beehaw.org · 6 months agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
If you aren’t familiar with countries where powerful people have their own militias… would you like to be?
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoYes, that guy who amassed tons of power designing roads and bridges to keep poor people from getting to the beaches. I think I learned about him from a Behind the Bastards episode.
minus-squareBaggins@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoUK here. Is this really true? What a scumbag. I really despise rich types like that who think they are superior to everyone else.
minus-square4dpuzzle@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoOh! They have been at it for at least half a century now. There are numerous documentaries about it on YouTube alone.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoHere’s the fucker. I guess there’s some debate about it, given quick searches that I just ran. I don’t have time to deep dive before work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/
minus-squareTiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoRobert Moses. He has a parkway named after him
minus-squarepbjamm@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoWasnt Robert Moses also the bastard responsible for all the “urban renewal” projects that bulldozed poor/black neighborhoods to build freeways?
Yes, that guy who amassed tons of power designing roads and bridges to keep poor people from getting to the beaches. I think I learned about him from a Behind the Bastards episode.
UK here. Is this really true?
What a scumbag. I really despise rich types like that who think they are superior to everyone else.
Oh! They have been at it for at least half a century now. There are numerous documentaries about it on YouTube alone.
Here’s the fucker. I guess there’s some debate about it, given quick searches that I just ran. I don’t have time to deep dive before work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/
Robert Moses. He has a parkway named after him
Wasnt Robert Moses also the bastard responsible for all the “urban renewal” projects that bulldozed poor/black neighborhoods to build freeways?