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  • KevonLooney@lemm.eetoMemes@midwest.socialBased
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    17 hours ago

    his uncle was the founder of Philipps electronics

    Philips was founded in 1891 and Karl Marx died in 1883, so how does that work? Explain that to me. This should pop out to you and tell you to check again. His relationship was not an “uncle” either. Frederik Philips was the son of Karl Marx’s wife’s sister. So a distant nephew.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Philips

    Do some people just have an opinion in mind and then look for any tiny evidence to support that? There’s no comparison between being born into the wealth of three old money families and knowing one dude who loaned you a few bucks. Why do people upvote these random unsourced incorrect comments?


  • KevonLooney@lemm.eetoMemes@midwest.socialBased
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    23 hours ago

    I just looked this up. Marx’s family was upper middle class, not wealthy. Marx was not “President’s cousin” wealthy. Marx wasn’t “get a job as a lawyer after dropping out of law school” wealthy.

    Marx had to rent rooms to live in. FDR’s mother just gave him a townhouse in NYC. Marx’s father died which resulted in his family having less money. That means he worked for their money. FDR’s father died when he was in college. He was sad but it didn’t affect the family income.

    That’s wealth. Marx was not wealthy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx


  • KevonLooney@lemm.eetoMemes@midwest.socialBased
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    He definitely wasn’t a democratic socialist. He was an establishment Democrat. He grew up rich and had a very distinguished pedigree. His life is a study in privilege:

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins,[3] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts, the Aspinwalls and the Delanos, respectively. Roosevelt’s father, James, graduated from Harvard Law School but chose not to practice law after receiving an inheritance from his grandfather.

    As a child, Roosevelt learned to ride, shoot, sail, and play polo, tennis, and golf.[8][9] Frequent trips to Europe—beginning at age two and from age seven to fifteen—helped Roosevelt become conversant in German and French. Except for attending public school in Germany at age nine,[10] Roosevelt was homeschooled by tutors until age 14. He then attended Groton School, an Episcopal boarding school in Groton, Massachusetts.

    Like most of his Groton classmates, Roosevelt went to Harvard College.[12] He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity[15] and the Fly Club,[16] and served as a school cheerleader.

    Roosevelt entered Columbia Law School in 1904 but dropped out in 1907 after passing the New York Bar Examination.[24][b] In 1908, he took a job with the prestigious law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn, working in the firm’s admiralty law division.

    In 1903, Franklin proposed to Eleanor. Following resistance from his mother, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17, 1905.[12][28] Eleanor’s father, Elliott, was deceased; Theodore, who was then president, gave away the bride.[29] The young couple moved into Springwood. Franklin and Sara Roosevelt also provided a townhouse for the newlyweds in New York City, and Sara had a house built for herself alongside that townhouse. Eleanor never felt at home in the houses at Hyde Park or New York; however, she loved the family’s vacation home on Campobello Island, which Sara also gave the couple.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt


  • as someone who owns property in Manhattan

    She doesn’t call herself a New Yorker or “resident of Manhattan” because legally she’s probably a Florida resident, because they have no income tax.

    It doesn’t matter what she thinks. The People of New York, both as the prosecution and the jury, convicted him. She’s not a citizen of New York, so her opinion doesn’t matter. She knows this. She should pay her NY state and local taxes and stop being a freeloader if she wants to be heard.



  • Clever Hans (German: der Kluge Hans; c. 1895 – c. 1916) was a horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks. After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer. He discovered this artifact in the research methodology, wherein the horse was responding directly to involuntary cues in the body language of the human trainer, who was entirely unaware that he was providing such cues.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans