I’m confused, doesn’t the way this is written imply that none of that is true, but rather that their newspapers are sensationalized? why is everyone going “same as it ever was”?
edit: yes I’m aware corruption existed 100 years ago just as it exists today, I was just confused about people ignoring the written words of the post
Except Standard Oil has been broken up 13 years earlier and 1924 was smack in the middle of Prohibition and the illegal transportation of alcohol was called bootlegging. Both the breakup of Standard Oil and the alcohol ban are written down in legal documents, so we can confirm their existence wasn’t sensationalized.
Bootlegging would be the only part that could have been sensationalized, but I see how people drink today and I don’t think thousands of years of human behavior with alcohol was sensationalized, leading me to a conclusion that we as a society wouldn’t just give up alcohol for a decade, bootlegging was almost certainly not sensationalized.
If the contemporary context wasn’t the above, I might have agreed with the implication of sensationalization. Due to that contemporary context however it doesn’t read like that.
Politics has always been a rough business. From the assassination of Julius Ceasar to the infamous Caning of Charles Sumner in 1856 which Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor with his cane.
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1924 ??? Really ? The real date ?
I’m confused, doesn’t the way this is written imply that none of that is true, but rather that their newspapers are sensationalized? why is everyone going “same as it ever was”?
edit: yes I’m aware corruption existed 100 years ago just as it exists today, I was just confused about people ignoring the written words of the post
Except Standard Oil has been broken up 13 years earlier and 1924 was smack in the middle of Prohibition and the illegal transportation of alcohol was called bootlegging. Both the breakup of Standard Oil and the alcohol ban are written down in legal documents, so we can confirm their existence wasn’t sensationalized.
Bootlegging would be the only part that could have been sensationalized, but I see how people drink today and I don’t think thousands of years of human behavior with alcohol was sensationalized, leading me to a conclusion that we as a society wouldn’t just give up alcohol for a decade, bootlegging was almost certainly not sensationalized.
If the contemporary context wasn’t the above, I might have agreed with the implication of sensationalization. Due to that contemporary context however it doesn’t read like that.
Politics has always been a rough business. From the assassination of Julius Ceasar to the infamous Caning of Charles Sumner in 1856 which Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor with his cane.
Truly inspiring, so much we’ve changed since then. That sense of ideation of the future would be nice to have.
Wait, so the politicians were grafters (hard workers), not grifters? So among all the negatives, they found a positive for politicians?
Two. a parasite
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YES YES are people gonna start posting old newspapers on here??
I love when people like to complain about how things were better before…before when?
Before the glee things went downhill.
Dang autocorrect.
Have any historians written back yet?
“same bro lol”