• solrize@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      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

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          8 days ago

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

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      9 days ago

      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.