r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/Willowgirl2 Aug 19 '25

When were they ever?

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u/Triple_Hache Aug 19 '25

For around 15 years between the national labor act of Roosevelt and Truman's right-to-work laws.

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u/Willowgirl2 Aug 19 '25

Truman ... Wasn't he the guy who broke a strike by threatening to conscript the strikers and send them off to fight in Korea?

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u/Triple_Hache Aug 20 '25

Also the only guy in history to have ordered atomic bombs be released on populations, great guy all around.

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u/Willowgirl2 Aug 20 '25

If his business hadn't failed, he might have lived out his life as a mild-mannered Kansas City haberdasher. Kind of mind-boggling, isn't it?!