Imagine if in London during the Blitz there'd been a whole bunch of people going "I'LL TURN ON MY LIGHTS IF I FEEL LIKE IT" Imagine if once the war started in the US a bunch of Americans were all "WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ME HOW MUCH FLOUR AND SUGAR I CAN BUY"
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Actually that did happen in the US, Rose Wilder Lane (Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter) was an anti-tax protester with Nazi apologist views who initially claimed the whole war effort was an excuse to take your freedom
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All I remember about her is she tried to follow in her mom's footsteps and write books about her childhood, but probably didn't sanitize as much as her mom did because the one thing I remember from them was her bragging about stealing a Native girl's dog and leaving her sobbing
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She was Ayn Rand's rival for the title of "Founding Mother of American Libertarianism"
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She was extremely bitter that Rand kind of ran away with that title and got way more famous than she was despite her shamelessly piggybacking on her mother She always said it was because Rand was Jewish
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Should've written more dieselpunk bodice rippers. If there's a lesson to that part of the 20th century, it's write genre fiction if you want to spread your crap ideology.
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I will bring this up at every opportunity, but Little House on the Prairie *IS* genre fiction. The genre is gothic/survival horror.
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Rose tried to get Laura to include a family of serial killers in Little House to make it sell better but she decided against it
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(The "Bloody Benders", this was a real thing, but the Ingalls family never actually encountered them in any way Laura did often talk as though they did as a self-aggrandizing thing though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders …)
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I would listen to a podcast series based on this whole thread if anyone wants to take that on.
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I have to say Arthur, of everyone who doesn’t have a podcast, you’re the most surprising
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