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If there is anyone I wish my politicians to aspire to, it’s FDR. But how tf can anyone get over the internment of the Japanese?

  1. Maxxtraxx

    Maxxtraxx

    Execute order 9066!

  2. BuckGup

    BuckGup

    Bruv FDR was a big racist and fascist

  3. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    What if without the internment we wouldn't get anime? 

  4. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    A democratically elected president that was so popular they had to invent term limits...a fascist? 🤔

     

    I don't think that math checks out chief. 

  5. SenKa

    SenKa

    Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy.

     

    That doesn't sound like FDR at all...

     

    On a side note, i am anxiously waiting for reviews of the new macbook air. If it can keep 4 cores under control thermally I am buying my first brand new laptop ever.

  6. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    @SenKa It cant. The Quad Core MBA easily hits 100C

  7. Maxxtraxx

    Maxxtraxx

    Eh, FDR:

     

    Executive order 9066: forced Japanese internment.

    Executive order 6102: forced Americans to turn in their personal Gold holdings

    FDR hated the press: and FDR’s government illegally intercepted telegraphs and used the ill begotten information to subpoena journalists, chilling any decent, and drying up the flow of information to reporters. A law was even proposed to give prison sentences for anyone who knowingly published false information: fake news.

     

    FDR, Mousolini and Hitler: "The broad-ranging powers granted to Roosevelt by Congress, before that body went into recess, were unprecedented in times of peace. Through this "delegation of powers," Congress had, in effect, temporarily done away with itself as the legislative branch of government. The only remaining check on the executive was the Supreme Court. In Germany, a similar process allowed Hitler to assume legislative power after the Reichstag burned down in a suspected case of arson on February 28, 1933.

    Roosevelt never had much use for Hitler, but Mussolini was another matter. "'I don't mind telling you in confidence,' FDR remarked to a White House correspondent, 'that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman'" (p. 31). Rexford Tugwell, a leading adviser to the president, had difficulty containing his enthusiasm for Mussolini's program to modernize Italy: "It's the cleanest … most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I've ever seen. It makes me envious" (p. 32, quoting Tugwell).

    Once more we must avoid a common misconception. Because of the ruthless crimes of Hitler and his Italian ally, it is mistakenly assumed that the dictators were for the most part hated and feared by the people they ruled. Quite the contrary, they were in those pre-war years the objects of considerable adulation. A leader who embodied the spirit of the people had superseded the old bureaucratic apparatus of government."

  8. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    And most of his New Deal has been dismantled once it was found unnecessary. No one is perfect and everyone has some bad takes. I would still put FDR in the top 3. Unless we want Coolidge at #1 since he didn't do much of anything. 

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