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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

I mean, yes though. He was a huge influence on the reason the US is the way it is now and a big reason why so many young men think the way they do and elected the people they did.

He accomplished a pretty huge amount of shit. Just not good shit.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

I've heard some say "it's better for someone to get into politics and disagree with me than to be apathetic"

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On shit like tax burden and foreign policy not on who counts as a human being.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I don't know how politics descended that far

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

By letting horrible bigots have power, by not having actual protections against bad-faith actors, by tolerating hateful rhetoric despite the obvious cost to society.

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[–] shani66@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

We never finished the job. The civil war? We didn't finish the reconstruction, we let those bigots keep their power. The Nazis? We hired those monsters.

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