Astral Codex Ten

FDR

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FDR

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FDR is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 8 times across 8 issues between February 20, 2021 and October 10, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “I bet FDR watched that and masturbated furiously … Commentators describe FDR as ‘a big fan’ … President Franklin Delano Roosevelt”; “Hoover’s theory that FDR was part of the same phenomenon”; “Anyone who doubts that FDR surfed into power on a wave of fascism”. It most often appears alongside Congress, United States, Germany.

Metadata

  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 8
  • Issue count: 8
  • First seen: February 20, 2021
  • Last seen: October 10, 2025

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Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Movie Review: Gabriel Over The White House
February 20, 2021 · Original source
The first thing I told my friend after we finished the movie was "I bet FDR watched that and masturbated furiously the whole time". I was right. Commentators describe FDR as "a big fan", and he apparently invited the actor who played President Hammond to the White House for drinks. Critic Jeff Greenfield says that "it was designed as a clear message to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt" by the tycoons who made and financed it (including William Randolph Hearst), and that it was "more than coincidental" that FDR's first hundred days included some of the same themes as the fictional President Hammond's (though this is weasel language and I can’t find anyone positing specific connections).
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People who should watch this movie: anyone who wants to see a completely innocent defense of dictatorship, written by people unaware it could go badly. Anyone who doubts that FDR surfed into power on a wave of fascism. Anyone who wants to see a shootout between blocky 1930s tanks under the command of the President's personal secretary vs. fashionable gangsters holed up in a ritzy Prohibition-Era warehouse. Anyone who enjoys crazy stuff which follows its own logic without compromise. Anyone who want to see how a truly excellent and talented actor portrays Franklin Roosevelt possessed by an archangel.
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