E V Debs : OG American Socialist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

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Maynard G Krebs : parody sitcom character on 'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_G._Krebs

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Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers : based on the sitcom character

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

  • aen [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I always thought the V in Eugene V Debs stood for Velma

  • heartheartbreak [fae/faer]
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    1 year ago

    Didn't know this lmao. Kind of funny since gene debs was like a heavy conservative growing up and almost the exact opposite of a beatnik

    • culpritus [any]
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      1 year ago

      It's an example of how the socialist history of the US was completely memory-holed. The labor movement makes a modicum of progress, and it is very quickly filtered out of cultural memory via lazy jokes.