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[-] sandinista209@hexbear.net 93 points 3 months ago

The fact that most Americans think this is what a progressive looks like shows how fucked we are.

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Teddy Roosevelt is most American's idea of a progressive

[-] miz@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

Donald Trump Jr. is our most progressive politician and once all the megafauna is extinct it will no longer be possible to be progressive

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Donald Trump is the megafauna, he is tragically the last remaining endling of the North American Woods Ape, Bigfoot himself.

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

He did give everyone money. That is the most direct action anyone has taken to help the US people in a generation or so.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

that was his dad

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

My main cultural knowledge of Teddy Roosevelt is the extremely weird hard on old Cracked had for the guy

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Dude regularly touted the sort of rhetoric we would call 'White Genocide' today. Shaming white women who didn't want to have children and stuff like that.

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He was a jock and a bully and people do enjoy that he would occasionally bully upper class people. That was cool but it was simply downstream from it him being terrible to everyone