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    • Blottergrass [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Killed the $750 "fuck you for being poor" fine for not buying health insurance from a for-profit company.

      • HeckHound [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Nixon only created the EPA because congress was about to establish its own national environmental regulatory body and he needed to undermine it by establishing an agency where he gets to appoint the leadership and prevent it from doing anything too radical. The EPA only exists in its current form because the Republicans sabotaged something better.

      • HeckHound [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Anti-trust is pretty good, but the National Parks were literally created by stealing land that the US promised to Native Americans and then forcibly relocating them again into shittier reservations.

        He was also probably the most imperialistic president we ever had. He literally believed that war was good and necessary for its own sake, or else humanity would become too weak and decadent to maintain civilization.

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          4 years ago

          the National Parks were literally created by stealing land that the US promised to Native Americans and then forcibly relocating them again into shittier reservations

          I don't think I can name a President that was Native friendly. Maybe John Quincy Adams?

          He was also probably the most imperialistic president we ever had.

          glances at Jefferson

          glances at Jackson

          glances at Polk, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan

          straight up glares at McKinley

          fires laser-beams from eyes at Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon

          I mean, I guess.

          He literally believed that war was good and necessary for its own sake, or else humanity would become too weak and decadent to maintain civilization.

          Hardly a view unique to Roosevelt.

          • HeckHound [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Nothing you said is wrong, I’m just pointing out that some of the “good things” that Teddy did weren’t in fact good at all.

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              4 years ago

              I prefer national parks to land fills and strip mines. I'm happy that we didn't privatize the state of Nevada, like we did almost all of the rest.

              • HeckHound [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                You realize that "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a park" and "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a strip mine" are not the only two options, right?

                • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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                  4 years ago

                  Sure. I do.

                  Turn of the century American Presidents did not.

                  • HeckHound [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    Yeah, because they were evil settler colonialist shits. That's literally been my point this whole time. Doing a genocide to create national parks is a Bad Thing, not a good thing like you claimed. "Everyone else was doing it too" doesn't somehow make it good.