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Jan 6th made him the worst, say what you want about Buchanan or Jackson but at least they did their atrocities within the system they were elected to uphold.
"Say what you want about genocides, at least they weren't Jan 6"
jesus fucking christ lmao that comment feels like it was written in some kind of laboratory as a distillation of pure liberalism
"Do what you want as long as it isn't against the rules!"
God these people are pathetic
A tacit admission that liberals construct their morality around what the state deems acceptable
It a worldview like that, a half-hearted insurrectionist riot becomes worse than countless massacres and dispossessions
A literal upside-down ideology
A literal upside-down ideology
A privilege held by those safe from the state violence that's levied against others that they carelessly protect; the moment they get a taste of this violence (and I hope they do), now they want reasonability and humanity and they start being rational. An infantile view of life is a privilege of the safe.
Isn't it also not true of Andrew Jackson? He refused to enforce a supreme court ruling, famously. Lol.
now that I think about it Jan 6 was actually good since only chuds and cops were killed
And in true gift that keeps on giving fashion, the chuds were dragged by fellow chuds and accused of being leftists.
If the system allows for genocide then that system doesn't deserve to exist.
You can tell how reluctant they were to use the word “atrocities”. It won’t be long before even that is too much to ask for from these genocide apologist fucks
They were just ~~following~~ giving orders!
Bush doing a judicial coup and succeeding is far more disruptive of social norms than Jan 6th was. Bush's invasion of Iraq was more destructive than any of Trump's decisions.
The only hatred deeper than what I have for George W Bush is one that would lead me to throwing my life away to end his. I hate him even more for unlocking this degree of hate. There isn't a word in any human language for my contempt for that loathsome wretch and it's probably good that we as a species cannot conceptualize this level of hate in words. I have Ahab hatred for him and even though ill for sure outlive that despicable cur, with my last breath I will curse his name as he lays dead and that is an absolute promise.
And I. Canadian, imagine how someone from Iraq might feel.
Something I've learned from talking with people from oppressed groups, is that vengeance and hatred in their hearts is often overcome with a desire to salvage the remainder of their life and overcome their past.
Vengeance, malice, and retribution are poisons and echoes of victimizer that deforms and mutilates the oppressed and we must all live with purpose and humanity.
Yeah, do you want to measure how bad a president was in terms of his "decorum" or "violation of norms", or how "respectable" they were? Or number of human deaths caused by their policies?
I mean the point is that even according to the most stupid liberal points, the one they right now whitewash was much worse than the one that is their enemy #1
You want to get a lib to say the most deranged shit possible ask them who they thought was a worse president, Bush or Trump
But was he a CHEETO
There were presidents who were literal slaveowners but okay
It was a different time! Nobody knew slavery was bad yet!
Also multiple who directly oversaw the deliberate genocide of the indigenous peoples of north america.
experts who only know about the 21st century, apparently
and even with that Bush was obviously worse
and Obama was a rubber stamp to practically all of Bush's policies, so he's worse too
Disagree. Millions dead is nothing compared to attempting to destabilize the world's most powerful democracy. That could lead to untold global suffering. Millions would have died of covid even if he had responded well (and had not axed the pandemic response thing back in like 2018). Trump's response was bad, and he definitely had an impact, but not as much as you might think.
Trump's response was bad, and he definitely had an impact, but not as much as you might think.
Unironically true, millions of Americans would've died of covid under any realistic American president. There's literally no circumstance in which an American leader puts forward actually good covid policy, and in which the American people actually follow said policy.
Broke: Trump is the worst president because norms.
Woke: Buchanan or Andrew Johnson were the worst since they betrayed their country to uphold slaver power.
Bespoke: Jimmy Carter is the worst since the neoliberal turn and the Volcker Shock destroyed the economies of the 3rd world and set back the global movement towards liberation and socialism back by a 100 years.
Trump is not even close to Reagan and Bush, what the fuck are they talking about.
George Washington is the worst, he spearheaded the creation of the abomination known as the united states of america
Not even the worst of my lifetime 
Andrew Johnson by a mile
I'm open to arguments for the worsitude of other presidents,
but fuck Johnson got to define the reconstruction era practically by himself -- a country not even a full damn century old yet, blown apart by civil war, and he decides to save the southern plantation aristocracy WHAT THE FUCK what the fuck would world history look like without either Booth or him in the VP slot, it's fucking unimaginable --; I damn well want to see those timelines, I desperately desire to know the weight and magnitude of that little shitstain's life on the fabric of causality. I don't believe in hell, but he makes me wish i could.
Experts are incredibly dumb then.
right before the 2020 election, Chomsky predictably got liberal press attention by saying trump is worse than hitler... for climate change denial. Uhhhh ok
worse than Jackson
So, in 100 years, they'll be putting him on the 20 dollar bill?*
spoiler
*just kidding. There won't be humans in 100 years.
Harrison's term was basically a three hour speech and then dying. I don't think you can get much worse at being a president
Thats the best one
worst president in history
Why people will eventually stop listening to "experts" on things they are actually right on.
What a ridiculous, meaningless designation.
The president that rips off the mask and abandon the facade of moral and idealistic policing of the world makes people feel bad about being an exploitative and genocidal nation.
It's one thing to excuse all other presidents as bumbling into disasters of untold scale, but it is another when the tv show host does it on purpose.
It's the dunk tank.
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