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Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
1) FDR
2) Teddy
3) LBJ
4) Reagan
5) Bill Clinton

I'm looking at it as impactful reformers. FDR and Teddy shook poo poo up unprecedentedly. LBJ cuz he created the modern social programs that we know.

Reagan and Slick Willie created our current neoliberal hell by rolling stuff back and letting Wall Street rules us.

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Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Teddy was a big dumb oaf, but his antitrust and anti-corruption policies were groundbreaking.

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Typical racist BROS leaving Obama out of their lists.

He almost struck a grand bargain :qq:

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
I think W might be on that list in a generation or so. When we really find out how devastating the Iraq War to the Middle East.

Frijolero has issued a correction as of 06:43 on Jan 9, 2018

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

punk rebel ecks posted:

Who was the president who tried to lock up all the suspected socialists in a sports stadium? I heard about them on Hardcore History some time ago.

He didn't try, he did.

He murdered thousands of people, including guitarist VictorJara (who made beautiful music btw).

Wikipedia posted:

After the coup, Pinochet’s soldiers rounded up Chileans who were believed to be involved with leftist groups, including Allende’s Popular Unity party. On the morning of 12 September 1973, Jara was taken prisoner, along with thousands of others, and interned in Chile Stadium. The guards there tortured him, smashing his hands and fingers, and then mocked him by asking him to play the guitar. Soon after, he was killed with a gunshot to the head, and his body was riddled with more than 40 bullets.

After his murder, Jara's body was displayed at the entrance of Chile Stadium for other prisoners to see. It was later discarded outside the stadium along with the bodies of other civilian prisoners who had been killed by the Chilean Army. His body was found by civil servants and brought to a morgue, where a civil servant identified him and contacted his wife, Joan. She took his body and gave him a quick and clandestine burial in the general cemetery before she fled the country into exile.

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