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Also, fuck Dick.

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[–] gAlienLifeform 158 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (31 children)

There's a good argument to be made he was the most evil president we ever had. Between

  • prolonging the Vietnam war by five years through sabotaging the negotiations while he was still just running for president
  • perfecting southern strategy campaigning and organizing all the neo-Confederates we're still dealing with as a new bloc of Republicans
  • founding the DEA and kicking off the war on drugs to jail and destabilize anti-war protesters and the black panthers,
  • all of the cheating he did during the 1972 campaign, which the Watergate break-in was only a part of
  • Cheering on the genocide of Bengalis by Pakistani generals because "muh Cold War allies!"

the roots of a ton of our modern problems go back to this paranoid alcoholic racist piece of shit

e; had to add in the Bengali genocide

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I thing Reagan and Trump are both more evil than Nixon ever was, but they never would've been elected if not for the groundwork that the Nixon administraton did.

[–] Glifted 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Behind the Bastards did a good job laying out why Nixon was possibly one of the worst in history in their series on Kissinger. Highly recommended if you have the time to listen to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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