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[โ€“] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The guy who ran Cuyamel back when they were bribing the Honduran government and after that the United Fruit Company supposedly spent the rest of his life drafting social welfare legal proposals for democrats. Which given just how evil the United Fruit Company was is more of an indictment of new deal legislation than anything else tbh.