• solrize@lemmy.world
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      Thomas Jefferson was before my time but was supposed to also be pretty good.

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        Plantation/Slaveowner and sorta rapist that paved the path for manifest destiny and westward expansion of the US

        pretty good

        Pick one

        • nogooduser@lemmy.world
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          Also said that he was against slavery but didn’t free his slaves even though he could have done legally in his state.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Nah.

      Lincoln

      Honorable mentions:

      FDR (that is, if you weren’t ethnically Japanese)

      George Washington (that is, if you weren’t black, he’d been a great president)

      Yea I feel like every “Great” leader has a dark shadow. There are no saints in leadership, especially not a leader of a large country.

  • Azal@pawb.social
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    The man did more after his presidency to help people than many do their entire lives. One can agree or disagree on his policies as a president, but he kept working with his own two hands to help people almost all the way to the very end. It says a lot that I recognize that about him far more than his legacy as President.

  • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.world
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    RIP, my friend. I’m sorry we couldn’t pull it off in the end. Hopefully things won’t turn out as bad as we fear. It’s a small chance, though we may even exit this time of turmoil better than we were.

  • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    So excited Suharto gets to meet back up with his old buddy so they can kill a bunch more innocent people together like they used to in the good old days,