• astigmatic [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      lib fellating here. he loathed the cia and wanted to abolish it, and before he died he was working towards ending the cold war. for all the awful shit he’d been involved with, it is very bad and terrible for the world that the cia killed him

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "Working on ending the Cold War" in this case actually means "nearly caused nuclear armageddon by suicidally escalating the Cuban missile crisis." JFK was hawkish to an insane degree.

        • astigmatic [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          a loot of things changed between the missile crisis and his assassination. i’m not saying he was a good dude and he should go to heaven. i’m saying that he was killed for a reason and the world is worse for it

          • richietozier4 [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            he wanted to get rid of the CIA because he thought they were idiots for fucking up the bay of pigs

    • shitstorm [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      He was for the Civil Rights act, had some nice moments with MLK. Libs know Johnson escalated Vietnam, so they think a JFK with two terms would have avoided "America failing in Vietnam."

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Wasn't there a Hulu show about that and it ended in like George Wallace getting elected and making Vietnam much worse?