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America First by Dr. Seuss (lemm.ee)
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[-] Juice@midwest.social 13 points 17 hours ago

Seek out Rachel Maddow's podcast, Ultra. I'm about 1000 light years from a Maddow fan but its actually a really good piece of investigative work about the explicitly and powerfully pro-fascist America First movement during ww2 and after. It just never ceases to be true, that no matter how much you accept the closeness of American patriotism and genocidal dictatorial fascism, the reality is always that they're a little closer than you thought.

[-] pookie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 20 hours ago

Is this a real Dr. Seuss? What year is it from?

[-] WeUnite@lemm.ee 64 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

According to https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb0000819h yes it's real and the year it's from is 1941 more specifically 1941-07-08. You can view what I think might be all or most of his political cartoons here: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/collection/bb65202085

[-] odium@programming.dev 19 points 19 hours ago

Damn, Dr. Seuss made some banger adult comics. Yet, the only ones which were remembered are the children's stuff.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago

“Adult comic” makes me think of Dr. Seuss porn lol

[-] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 18 hours ago

The colloquial term for adult-themed comic magazines is, or are least used to be, Comix, I think. Not the porn ones, that is.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 41 points 20 hours ago

google "dr seuss wwii propaganda" you ain't seen nothing yet

[-] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, I honestly think it's really interesting! More specifically, Seuss was in the Signal Corps to make propaganda like this alongside other artists you might know such as Stan Lee! Lee even made propaganda/survival comics for troops since a lot of them couldn't be bothered to read manuals for a lot of their equipment lol.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago

here's another absolute gem from that time period

https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2017/u-s-armys-how-to-spot-a-jap-pamphlet/

[-] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Holy shit, that's awful lmao. The only real thing from that entire pamphlet is that there's no real difference between L and R in Japanese (Think of ramen for example. It was a borrowed/translated word from Chinese: lo mein.) But I guess that's why it's propaganda in the first place.

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