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There should be some differentiation between guys who were awful for their people but did well for themselves, like Stalin or Mao, and people who completely failed even at being competent ruthless autocrats. Now Francisco Solano Lopez, that's top tier awful by any metric.
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and i must meme posted:i dunno mao seemed pretty incompetent at running the country sure, at seizing and maintaining power no, that's the distinction I was trying to make
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Price controls can work as temporary emergency measures, or as part of a broader set of regulations and subsidies tailored to a specific industry for a specific purpose. As done in Venezuela on the other hand its an absurd libertarian strawman made real.
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Of course it's bad, that's why we don't do it in peacetime.
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May 17, 2017 21:20
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Bad leader- Hitler
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May 17, 2017 22:14
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Nebakenezzer posted:Harrison was the guy who's campaign promise was "log cabins and hard cider" right? It was his opponents that tried the log cabin and cider line, which backfired spectacularly. Harrison's slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
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punk rebel ecks posted:Do tell. Basically they wanted to portray him as a frontier simpleton unfit for and disinterested I the intellectual demands of the office, so someone said something like, "he'd be just as happy in a log cabin with a jug of hard cider as in the white house." This may have played as intended with the big city folks, but since the franchise had been expanded there were an awful lot of log cabin dwelling cider drinkers for whom it made them like Harrison more. The Harrison campaign leaned into it and brought cider to rallies which was generally a good way to win friends.
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