@in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social
Post #1511521
2026-01-24 16:33 UTC
Sorry for the YouTube link, if anyone can find it hosted elsewhere let me know I'll update my post.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aD_Tyj-wbC4
Johnny never really profited. By all accounts he was likely neurodivergent and Apple Trees were his special interest. His labor and efforts to educate others was leveraged by others to snatch land up and proof of improvement to the land for homesteading.
The US government was absolutely at fault for the genocide of indigenous peoples. But Johnny was at worse a useful idiot and at best a roving horticulturist who wasn't very good at owning land.
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@GhostPain@lemmy.world 2026-01-24 16:43
Useful idiot or not, the fact is, according to The Technician at least, he was a *successful businessman*, so somebody is wrong here. I'm too old and cynical to believe that it wasn't a scam, ND or not, and that doesn't absolve him from complicity.