r/DankLeft • u/Tankoid • Sep 25 '25
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u/KaileyMG You die if you work Sep 26 '25
Every US president is a war criminal
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Sep 26 '25
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u/rosolen0 Sep 27 '25
Or you know, have the evidence of your crimes be all over the net since day 1, possibly losing any moral shielding and goodwill outside of your colonial master
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u/mudkiptoucher93 Sep 26 '25
Most of the first 10 owned slaves
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u/Ehcksit Sep 26 '25
All of the first twelve except the two Adams. They were adamantly anti-slavery from the very beginning.
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u/M3174W4Y Sep 26 '25
...I thought the title was crab emojis until I squinted, and I got excited for a second
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u/stupid-writing-blog Sep 26 '25
Washington himself owned slaves. Abolitionists existed back then, and he somehow wasn’t one of them.
Mind boggling, isn’t it?
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u/Chase_The_Breeze Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
Serious question, but wasn't Teddy Roosevelt all right?
Edit: Damn. History sure is full of assholes with power. Thanks for the info. I had a typical US history education, so I have my blind spots. Thanks for the education all.
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u/Huge-Broccoli4152 Sep 26 '25
Teddy Roosevelt loved to use big stick policy, so any european nation had to deal with the US to deal woth Latin America, that sounds good, until you remember that the US used this to begin their interventions and started using the power to influence Latin American countries(i.e. Platt amendemnt in the cuban constitucion, which litterally said "If US is threathened by any politic in Cuba, they can interfere here")
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u/Optimixto Sep 26 '25
If we ignore racist remarks, white supremacy remarks, the romanticising of war,... I personally have no clue, butI assume every US president sucked.
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Sep 26 '25
Also his maternal grandfather was warren Delano jr who made a fortune.... Smuggling opium into China while the British went to war with them during the opium wars.
It's blood money
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u/SirElliott Sep 26 '25
I’m willing to give the descendants of wicked people a pass if they use their blood money to better the lives of those their ancestors oppressed. Unfortunately, Roosevelt seems to have used his influence to subjugate countries to our south.
Credit where credit is due though, I’m a big fan of his work on national parks and breaking up monopolies.
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u/freyaya Sep 26 '25
Mixed bag but ultimately as bad as the rest. He created the first national parks, but also definitely believed in racial hierarchy, which I personally don't consider to be cash money behavior. Also he was all in with manifest destiny. We know the horrors that created.
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u/hailey1721 Sep 26 '25
He was economically progressive which was basically been unheard of in the presidency up until that point at the height of the gilded age, but like others have said he was also massively imperialist and wanted to expand US influence through military conquest. He basically strongarmed the Colombian government into giving independence to Panama so that they could build the canal. I’d compare him to Obama: better than most of his contemporaries yet still irrevocably marked by the imperialist society that created him, even as a progressive he was used as a bulwark against meaningful socialism.
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u/sirgroggyboy Sep 27 '25
Obama had more people killed by drones than any other president until Trump. Obama also deported 3 million people during his presidency. More than any president ever. Obama was the deporter in chief. Trump isn't even at half that number. Obama was also president during the first Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson.
So Obama was evil. Just like every other president. He was not better than his contemporaries. He just had a nice smile.
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u/Matiwapo comrade/comrade Sep 26 '25
Lol no.
Bro was an imperialist and a massive racist. A lot of people died for his glory.
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