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I unironically stan Nixon. Not a great guy for a lot of reasons but when you take into account the competition and just tally the balls and strikes, Tricky Dick comes out better than most and if you ignore ideology and just measure by his efficacy as a politician he doesn't fare too poorly until an admittedly ignoble final defeat.
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Sep 23, 2022 15:22
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hmmmm, idk sabotaging early end to vietnam and then bombing laos and combodia is p damning
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Sep 23, 2022 15:49
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LastInLine posted:I unironically stan Nixon. an absolutely dreadful sentence
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Sep 23, 2022 15:51
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Plus didn't Nixon found the EPA, the original form of cancel culture?
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Sep 23, 2022 15:52
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we have no choice but to stan
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Sep 23, 2022 15:53
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Dear Dick, you still ain't called or wrote I hope you have a chance I ain't mad I just think it's hosed up what you did to Laos
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Sep 23, 2022 15:54
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Protected the poo poo out of the environment of SE Asia.
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Sep 23, 2022 15:54
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LastInLine posted:I unironically stan Nixon. Not a great guy for a lot of reasons but when you take into account the competition and just tally the balls and strikes, Tricky Dick comes out better than most and if you ignore ideology and just measure by his efficacy as a politician he doesn't fare too poorly until an admittedly ignoble final defeat. xD
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Sep 23, 2022 15:58
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It's kind of incredible how if you don't take into account the amount of human suffering caused overseas by American presidents they can become "good".
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Sep 23, 2022 15:59
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Why McKinley was our Most Based President
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Sep 23, 2022 15:59
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AnimeIsTrash posted:It's kind of incredible how if you don't take into account the amount of human suffering caused overseas by American presidents they can become "good".
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Sep 23, 2022 16:09
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AnimeIsTrash posted:It's kind of incredible how if you don't take into account the amount of human suffering caused overseas by American presidents they can become "good". If you're willing to accept America is fundamentally an evil enterprise then admittedly you're going to have some morally dubious KPIs to determine rankings.
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Sep 23, 2022 16:17
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if you ignore ideology and just measure by his efficacy as a politician, Nixon was one of the most effective presidents ever at killing people of colour overseas
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Sep 23, 2022 16:21
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vyelkin posted:if you ignore ideology and just measure by his efficacy as a politician, Nixon was one of the most effective presidents ever at killing people of colour overseas his admin started the war on drugs! give the man some domestic credit too!!!
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Sep 23, 2022 16:30
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another Nixon gem was supporting genocide in Bangladesh and seeking to punish India for putting an end to it
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Sep 23, 2022 16:35
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strongly reconsidering my "Nixon is my homeboy" t-shirt
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Sep 23, 2022 16:36
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projecthalaxy posted:Why McKinley was our Most Based President is he the one who had whiskey shoved up his rear end until he starved to death?
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Sep 23, 2022 16:37
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Hand Knit posted:is he the one who had whiskey shoved up his rear end until he starved to death? Hey. Hey. There was also beef broth and vinegar in the whiskey.
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Sep 23, 2022 16:51
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Hand Knit posted:is he the one who had whiskey shoved up his rear end until he starved to death? yeah but that was just cuz he was in Buffalo
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Sep 23, 2022 16:52
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The army squad guarding mckinley usually made people have their hands up and empty to go into the handshake line but since it was so hot and stuffy they let people keep dabbing their foreheads with handkerchiefs to be polite and then whoopsie doodle somebody has a revolver in their handkerchief
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Sep 23, 2022 16:56
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Andrew Gillum's hotel party
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:we have no choice but to stan Jumpstarting the prison industrial complex was a L but we must recognize the noble goal of shaming stoners
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Sep 23, 2022 17:49
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LastInLine posted:I unironically stan Nixon. Not a great guy for a lot of reasons but when you take into account the competition and just tally the balls and strikes, Tricky Dick comes out better than most and if you ignore ideology and just measure by his efficacy as a politician he doesn't fare too poorly until an admittedly ignoble final defeat. It’s so funny when these people outright reveal they care more about neutered government agencies being respected than countless human lives being obliterated
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Sep 23, 2022 17:55
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McKinley sucked but the guy who shot him was pretty cool.
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Sep 23, 2022 18:11
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Echo Chamber posted:McKinley sucked but the guy who shot him was pretty cool. There was a stretch around that time where anarchists just decided to start killing every head of state they could find. They killed the empress of Austria and I think two different Italian PMs?
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Sep 23, 2022 18:35
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Lord, would you deliver these races in Georgia? O Father, would you deliver various local and state races, Father, that they aren't stolen? Would you give us a true vote? And, O God, I personally ask, from myself, Michele Bachmann, Lord, would you allow Donald Trump to have a second term as president of the United States?
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Sep 23, 2022 18:57
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Zerg Mans posted:There was a stretch around that time where anarchists just decided to start killing every head of state they could find. They killed the empress of Austria and I think two different Italian PMs? propaganda of the deed objectively did not work and was a failure as a political strategy but it did get a bunch of rich people and horrible inbred nobles killed so it had at least one redeeming quality
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Sep 23, 2022 19:00
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Mister Bates posted:propaganda of the deed objectively did not work and was a failure as a political strategy but it did get a bunch of rich people and horrible inbred nobles killed so it had at least one redeeming quality Very possible to say if it was good or bad. Also side-eyeing current day Japan when you say "failure as a political strategy" just to see if there's any new developments.
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Sep 23, 2022 19:14
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the song about Czolgosz icing McKinley is also the best part of Assassins
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Sep 23, 2022 19:46
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Setting aside the incredible racism surrounding Mount Rushmore, You really have to admire the fact that Teddy Roosevelt had the absolutely gargantuan balls to say "I'm going to build a monument to the greatest presidents, Washington, Jefferson???, Lincoln, and ME" The sheer (racist demon cracker) chutzpah of that guy.
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Sep 23, 2022 20:11
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The Anime Liker posted:Setting aside the incredible racism surrounding Mount Rushmore, Teddy Roosevelt didn't build Mount Rushmore
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Sep 23, 2022 20:14
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vyelkin posted:Teddy Roosevelt didn't build Mount Rushmore Its impossible to say if he did or didn't, really. Maybe it burst forth fully formed from the rock like mighty Artemis.
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Sep 23, 2022 20:16
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Andrew Gillum's hotel parTy
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vyelkin posted:Teddy Roosevelt didn't build Mount Rushmore I'll be damned. I'd always heard the story as "it was supposed to be Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, Crazy Horse, and [5th], but Teddy was like nah gently caress that, ME" But according to Wikipedia it was Teddy's bestie, some crusty senator. the_more_you_know_star.gif
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:we have no choice but to stan Wow, things sure have changed since then
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Sep 23, 2022 23:58
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projecthalaxy posted:Plus didn't Nixon found the EPA, the original form of cancel culture? people here like to bring that up but no, he begrudgingly signed it into law after his political opponents wanted something much more powerful at regulating
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Sep 24, 2022 02:30
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Dumpmaster General posted:It’s so funny when these people outright reveal they care more about neutered government agencies being respected than countless human lives being obliterated I'll stan Nixon not being particularly bad compared to other presidents; like Trump, his badness is more public because he pissed off the wrong powerful also-bad people.
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Sep 24, 2022 02:43
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PerniciousKnid posted:I'll stan Nixon not being particularly bad compared to other presidents; like Trump, his badness is more public because he pissed off the wrong powerful also-bad people. it's okay, you don't actually have to hand it to the guy who bombed tens of thousands of Cambodian civilians to death and sponsored the Pinochet coup
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:people here like to bring that up but no, he begrudgingly signed it into law after his political opponents wanted something much more powerful at regulating It’s probably better to say absolutely nobody in power realized quite how powerful NEPA was. It passed the senate unanimously and the house near unanimously. This is not the vote count on a bill anyone expects to have teeth
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