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[–] 120 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Cmon guys, dont diminish his personal accomplishments. Hes easily one of the worst humans in history.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The question is: top 10, top 5, or top 3?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Dunno. Was there ever any record of stalin raping and killing kids, hitler selling fake phones to the nazis or mousellini arresting an olympic athlete for allegedly cutting a 350' swath of liner from a pool? Did saddam ever get caught on tape saying 'grab em by the pussy' in arabic?

    I think not!

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  • [–] 47 points 4 months ago

    Imagine being Trump and seeing this.

    It'd be so hard for him not to share the only poll where he's beating Obama.

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Cult members believe dear leader is the best! More news at 8!

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  • [–] 43 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Ah yes, but you see, I've recently discovered that all Republicans are most likely cunts, so we shouldn't take their opinion too seriously

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, and I'm quite fond of them

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    No, they're right cunts. Right cunts are a whole nother thing.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Historians will likely rank him as the worst.

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  • [–] 54 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    If you think trump is the greatest American then you probably belong in either prison or a psych ward.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Don't forget good old fashioned stupidity

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    We have a saying here in Denmark that roughly translates to: Dumber than allowed by the police.
    By that logic they do indeed belong in prison for their stupidity. Except in USA the police is part of the problem too.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The police here are dumber than allowed by any other police in the world.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Have you seen police in the middle east? India? How police in African countries? North Korea? Columbia? Venezuela?

    Want me to keep going? Chinese police are cool until you criticize them or the party

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

    What the fuck is wrong with these republicans who still think hes the greatest president ever? Are they just purely racism and hatred and see him as their mascot? Are they so stupid and uninformed that they drink the koolaid and believe everything that comes out of Fox News and Trumps mouth? I have never understood what people see in that piece of shit. I have hated since back in the day when he did his stupid ass cameo in Home Alone 2. He has always been a sleazy fucking rat bastard that turns everything he touches to shit. I can't believe that so many people bought the bullshit persona they made up for him on the Apprentice...

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Above all, they enjoy getting people like you angry.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    They’re annoyed that people experience empathy and curiosity.

    They don’t.

    They just want to be ignorant bigots without challenge or second thought.

    They’re tired of living with people who are genuinely BETTER HUMAN BEINGS than them.

    It makes them feel weak and stupid and pathetic.

    Don’t hide. Be loud. Remind them. Don’t let them get a moment of respite from the crushing weight of ideas that come from people who actually give a shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    For sure. He was a joke long before he ever got into politics. Only now he's not funny anymore. What I can't figure out is whether they genuinely believe he's a good president, or the trolling level has gotten so good that we can't even tell. Makes no material difference, but just thinking about it goves me a headache.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Humans are social creatures. Facts don't matter. Emotions and social belonging matter. So people who are just immersed in trump-stuff are going to think it's all normal and good, and reject contrary facts from the out group.

    This is part of why right wing media is so dangerous. It feeds the in-group solidarity

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    24 hour cable news, and repealing the fairness doctrine, led us directly to this

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago*

    I disagree. Those that voted for him are the worst Americans in history.

    Voting for a paedophile says more about the voter than it does about the paedophile.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Trump cultists going to act like typical cultists

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    The Government of Putin will continue to support their pedo, felon, rapist and draft dodging sack of shit. However, the Old Guard Democrats allowed this shit to continue and they are just as responsible for the ongoing disaster.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Benedick Arnold.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    In 10 to 18 years, I bet Trump gets memory holed by the Republican Party, much like George W. Bush. They will move on, and they will try to pretend that Trump and MAGA had never existed.

    The core of MAGA is Trump, and no one has been able to really duplicate it. And Trump is an old man who is already slowing down. There is no succession plan. I think the movement dies with him, maybe with his presidency. And then they pretend they never supported him.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    repugs are every bit as rancidly nasty as their "dear leader"

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Interesting... I didn't think anyone thought of Albert Einstein as American. I'm aware of what his situation was, but I didn't expect to see him on this list.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Your mistake is thinking he is a president.

    He’s a failed businessman, pedophile, turned traitor, turned conman, turned fascist dictator.

    The US is not a democracy anymore, Americans should stop pretending it is and start thinking about their new lives

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    In other news - Water is wet.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Its easier for them to say that lie than admit they made a mistake voting for him.

    Similar to the quote attributed to Mark Twain.

    "It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    He's bad, but I'm pretty sure Jackson's genocide murdered more people, no?

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Ill be interested to know the headcount from DOGE

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Historians estimate that Jackson caused the death of 10,000 to 15,000 native Americans.

    It's projected that Trump's defunding of USAID will kill around 14 million by 2030. 4.5 million of those will be children under the age of 5 (See Lancet study.) Throw in his health care roll backs, social services withdrawals, suicides from tariffs, etc. and that figure goes a lot higher.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Did you forget about when willfully allowed COVID to spiral into a pandemic, which is probably still killing people? Way way more.

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  • [+] -7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    The respirators killed more people than the Rona. Rona isn't out there killing many people. I am amazed anyone would still be pushing that narrative.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    This is goddamned bullshit and you're despicable to suggest it. The SHORTAGE of respirators definitely cost lives, particularly as hospitals became overwhelmed. And if you think that was "fake", fuck you. Fuck you straight to hell. Some of us lived it.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    And some of us were in the hospital for over a month wondering if we were going to make it out.

    I am only alive because my doctor said to not put me on a resp. So f you too.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Which was the course of treatment right for YOU, you stupid fuck. Saying they respirators were killing people writ large is a dumb fuck ignorant misrepresentation.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago

    I didn't say they killed people writ large. But the success rate of people coming off of regulators is sketch. Granted there are a lot of circumstance to that. In the same vein you can't say they saved a bunch of people.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Republicans also don't properly wash their asses cause touching themselves there is gay.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    If this isn't proof that modern day Republicans are part a cult, I don't know what is. I mean, at the very least, Lincoln (stopped slavery), Teddy (inspiring teddy bears), and Reagan (powering the US economy) were better presidents than Trump (killing people during COVID).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Shouldn't he be like "average american" considering he represents americans internationally?

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  • [+] -10 points 4 months ago (19 children)

    Either way, he is the most american American in history. He is the essence of your wretched country. You may strive to be something better, but this is who you are.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago*

    Not really any different than so many other countries taken over by bullies. Humans suck everywhere - it's just a matter of when in history (or future history) you chose to look that you catch some being worse than others at that moment. Jump to another time, and the game of musical chairs will have the bullies sitting somewhere else, but still doing the same shit.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    It really sucks because there are some core ideas that are really nice, completely overshadowed by the country’s terrible behavior. The things we were led to believe about ourselves in school would make for a genuinely good society. The secularism, multiculturalism, access to opportunity, many freedoms beyond reproach, etc. Our leaders have for centuries now talked about these and still mostly failed to deliver.

    Well that’s on all of us, but given the outsized influence of the rich, I’m happy to shirk much of our responsibility onto them.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I’m happy to shirk much of our responsibility onto them.

    I don't think you had a choice in the matter of oligarchs already having a million times more power than we could ever dream of having.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That is how they become oligarchs.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Thanks for the pointless generalized hatred. Really helps us get better, being hated by assholes on the Internet.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Please note this is not directed at you personally as I'm sure you are a good person on an individual level.

    Speaking as a Canadian I, and many of us, are absolutely fed up of your bullshit because regardless of if you personally voted for that shithead and every other shithead around him like Lutnick or Hoefstra this is who the country wants representing them.

    This is also not new behaviour. We have known for decades we are attached to a big brother we love dearly but also happens to run a meth lab in their house and beats their wife.

    You need help. Honest to God you need help. Yet all your country can do is punch down and wail about the rest of the world not bending over when you tell it to.

    We tried helping you get better. We continue to try because we love you. But Jesus Christ get your shit together.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    How could we not care? You're our brother after all. But it hurts a lot so much that yes we are making distance now. Not because we stopped caring, but it hurts us as well.

    Regardless of what people think about Carney or Pollievre the numbers show average Canadians are not going to America anymore and average Canadians want to distance ourselves from America.

    Americans writ large are not aware of the generational damage being wrecked on their nation. This will take decades if not centuries to heal at best and may never return to what it once was.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    You cannot both generalize all of this and also not direct it at members of the group. America is fucked, and telling the people most aware and most upset by it that they're fucked isn't helping. Oh you didn't direct it at me? Do you want me to force magats to read this comment? I'll never understand the point in this kind of conversation. The effect is literally nothing but rubbing it in while being self righteous.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago

    I used to see value in Canadian Moralism. Now I just see it self righteous high horsing. Their claim to political fame, Pierre Trudeau, has had every remaining thread of dignity shredded by his son.

    Canadians have decided it is sufficient to make their single standpoint "well at least we're not Americans". And submitted themselves to being easily manipulated media puppets who no longer know their "big brother" because they believe everything their manipulative parents tell about him.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Ha, you are going to fall too. You aren't special, this is a worldwide fascist coup.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Never said differently. Like you said, we aren't any more special than anybody else.

    There is a chance we'll make it through this better than we were, however. Progressives have been on a roll since Mamdani won NYC mayor late last year. Hopefully that continues until there are enough in place to displace the establishment politicians and make REAL changes that work for everybody.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I like your enthusiasm. But without white populists we are doomed to fail.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    He's competing with Buchanan for worst president ever. That even being a conversation should be embarrassing.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    Buchanan barely makes the top 10 worst list. Jackson and Wilson did far more damage to the country directly. Heck most of Buchanan's presidency was just cleaning up the infighting of Jackson's cabinet. Top 5 worst? Three way tie between Jackson, Wilson, and Trump for first. Polk and either Nixon or Reagan round out the top 5.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Trump has killed far more than Jackson. Don't forget COVID is literally his fault for removing early prevention people, trashing protocol, and then ignoring it for as long as possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    True, but Jackson also paid off the national debt, causing the longest and deepest (by percentage of the economy, not by sheer dollar value) depression in the entire history of the country. I'm not limiting damage to just fatalities/casualties.

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