• hactar42@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    President responsible for ushering in 100 years of segregation and Jim Crowe laws… Average

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    FDR was screamed at in his own time for imposing “socialism” in the form of the New Deal - including the Social Security system, which MAGA is bent on eradicating.

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      1 month ago

      They don’t see that. Rather they see FDR as this populist and aggressive manly man who didn’t take no for an answer, particularly in respect towards how he proceeded to take a third term in office.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I thought MAGA hated FDR.

      Though I’m sure zero thought was given to this an it was generated by a prompt that only mentioned Trump should be at the top, and Biden, Obama, and Carter should be at the bottom.

      Interesting they didn’t tell the AI to also put Clinton at the bottom. Guess Trump still has a soft spot for Clinton out of nostalgia for when they hung out together at Epstein’s house.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If other people say you’re really cool, you’re probably really cool. If you constantly have to tell everyone that you are cool, you’re a pathetic fucking loser.

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    I’m not American, and this is maybe the first time I’ve seen FDR listed as FD Roosevelt. Is that the same Roosevelt as Teddy? Or just a coincidence?

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      It is the same Roosevelt family, yes, they were distant (fifth) cousins. FDR’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was also Teddy Roosevelt’s niece.

      It’s worth remembering that while FDR is frequently seen as a radical progressive, the reality is that he came out of an established political family, and his New Deal policies were driven less by some radical ideology and more by recognizing what the moment demanded, and being willing to act on that. If anything, FDR was somewhat reserved in implementing the New Deal and in some cases, he even attempted to roll back his own policies prematurely.

      In normal circumstances, he might have been an unremarkable president, but he rose to the challenge and recognized that the economic crisis in front of him required a functional, active government, which created a political will even within the political establishment to break the fundamental US norms that the government isn’t supposed to ever do anything good or useful.

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      1 month ago

      Fifth cousins. The Roosevelt family is / was a political dynasty alongside the Adams, Harrison and Bush families

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    1 month ago

    I wouldn’t bother giving attention to Trump’s social media posts. It’s time to move into other people’s posts

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    Leaving Nixon out because the optics of having him the “Great” category I’m sure, based on how his mind works. “This guy cheated and lied, one of my own and someone I can relate to!”

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Of the quite relevant ones, Dementia Diapers Dodo casually forgot Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush Jr.

    Edit: oh, and Ford.