1/ thread here reminds me of the google dive I went on a few days back reading about food rationing in the US during WWIIhttps://twitter.com/DaddyWarpig/status/1343479118759751680 …
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3/ I found a thread where someone was repeating what his grandmother had told him: * no, they weren't supposed to - all animals had to go to the collective slaughterhouse, comrade * to ensure that that happened, FDR's commisars required all farmers to report livestock births
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4/ * ... and not only did the family of grandma-on-the-farm refuse to tell the USDA snoops about livestock births, but so did every other farm family they knew Score one for good ole Scots Irish American "get the !@# off my land" orneriness.
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5/ ehhh ... that's a hell of a lot of people I am, at best, patriotic to an extremely small phyle of ~50-100 online friends (would gladly form small expat nation with them, just need boat and some strange tech...)https://twitter.com/TheLumpenprole/status/1343675608736407553 …
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6/ "I'm a patriot of a country that never existed" -
@skiballarhttps://twitter.com/TheLumpenprole/status/1343676242411855872 …Show this thread
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Would that be something that, in aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce?
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My grandfather was a car mechanic during the war. Not drafted because he was essential. They raised chickens for personal use. Hundreds of them. My grandmother canned them. My fathers family raised chickens in their semi rural garage. They both traded chicken for rationed items.
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