YOU are the problem with America. This mentality is why MAGA controls our nation.
FDR didn’t kill those people, his actions are not the same as Hitler’s. Lincoln suspended Habeus Corpus, and the North operated POW camps that made Nazi Concentration camps look like a resort.
War is an ugly, monstrous thing, and decent people are forced to make immoral decisions. Some are going to be right and some are going to be wrong. We never know until it’s over, and have to live with the consequences. You have no idea if interning those people means that a spy was bottled up, and couldn’t sabotage the war effort toward the Japanese. The internment may have saved the war, but we’ll never know.
What I do know, is that after the war, those people went free. They were NOT detained for life, they weren’t executed. OTOH, Social Security has saved millions of lives, and employment reforms have saved millions of lives, and both have greatly improved the lives of EVERY American worker, every single day. That kind of fundamental improvements in the lives of every American cannot be simply dismissed because of one disagreeable action. ON BALANCE, FDR’s good works far outweighed his worst mistake.
You are one of those shallow political thinkers who only see black & white, and are incapable of processing any nuance, which is unfortunately what politics is all about for many people. They want it to be easy, and morally indisputable, but the world is far more complicated than simple concepts or solutions. Your leaders are not going to be perfect saints, and if you insist that they are, then we are going to have nothing but MAGAs running our country in the future.
Interesting you bring up MAGA. They’re currently building concentration camps. Are you going to hand wave that too? Apparently the dow is over 50,000. Hypothetically, how high would the Dow have to go before you’d forgive trump for building concentration camps? When does it go from “horrific human rights abuses” to “he was a complicated man”? How expensive is it to buy your respect?
several paragraphs of apologism and whataboutism
Having your face on currency is apparently a great honor in this country. I’m not suggesting we end social security or the interstate highway program. But get his smug fascist ass face off the dime. Good countries don’t honor men who throw people in concentration camps.
WTF are you talking about? Who cares about the fucking dime? You’re the MAGA supporting the end of Social Security and all workplace protections because of one mistake made during the biggest war in human history.
You would kill MILLIONS of Americans in the nearly century since WW2, because some people were once inconvenienced during that war. Refugees are an ugly reality of war, and America has been able to avoid it for the most part. This is as close as we’ve come, and at least we learned some harsh lessons from it, that will lead us to avoid such choices in the future. That is about the best you can expect from the limited positive outcomes from any war.
I’m sorry for what happened to the Japanese-Americans in WW2 (for which our government has apologized, and compensated), and I hope we never do anything like that again. But do I think that FDR, and all the lifesaving programs he accomplished should be dismissed because of one disagreeable decision during the worst war in human history? Of course not, that’s just STUPID.
You’re the MAGA supporting the end of Social Security and all workplace protections because of one mistake made during the biggest war in human history.
I support removing this garbage human being’s portrait from the dime and that’s all. You apparently support hand waving atrocious civil rights violations by saying they’re just “one mistake”. So where’s your line? What would trump have to do to buy your respect? Clearly you have a price.
Go tell your grandmother that you want her to lose her Social Security, and go tell your boss that you’ll be glad to work on dangerous equipment 16 hours a day, 6 days a week ( so you can to Cult on Sunday), with no overtime or any other benefits, all for payment in company scrip.
And make sure you tell them it’s because of Japanese Internment Camps from a century ago.
Nobodys talking about getting rid of social security. Stop moving the goal posts and stop defending objectively shitty people because they had some policies you liked.
YOU are the one who has dismissed FDRs ENTIRE legacy because of one mistake, which means that if you had your way, and FDR wasn’t president to intern the Japanese-Americans, you would be perfectly comfortable without Social Security or any of the workplace and employment benefits that YOU take for granted.
So you are advocating for not interning the Japanese-Americans, in exchange for surrendering all of FDRs labor reforms.
MOST Americans would not make that trade, including most Japanese-Americans.
YOU are the one who has dismissed FDRs ENTIRE legacy because of one mistake,
That “one mistake” being throwing 100,000 Americans into concentration camps. That’s at least 100,000 mistakes.
you are advocating for not interning the Japanese-Americans, in exchange for surrendering all of FDRs labor reforms.
I am not advocating for time travel. I am advocating removing a really bad person’s portrait from the dime. You do know that removing him from the dime wouldn’t automatically invalidate every law he passed, right?
MOST Americans would not make that trade, including most Japanese-Americans.
So what would you trade in Trump’s case? You’re clearly willing to negotiate on atrocities, what would he have to bribe you in order for you to ignore his?
So what would you trade in Trump’s case? You’re clearly willing to negotiate on atrocities, what would he have to bribe you in order for you to ignore his?
The difference is that FDR’s presidency was basically one major improvement for American citizens after another, including winning the worst war in human history, and his positive improvements still provide daily significant protections for every American citizen to this very day. He actually has a positive legacy to BALANCE the Internment issue, which is basically his only misstep in 4 terms.
Trump does not have ANY positive policies to mitigate the many, many criminal instances of treason, corruption, murder, pedophilia, and more that he has partaken in or facilitated. There will be no “trades” in Trump’s case, he will be lucky to avoid being the first president to be executed, which is what he deserves.
You owe nearly everything positive in your life to FDR. Without the protections he put on workers, and regulations for employers, we would still have dangerous workplaces like the early 20th centuries, with long hours, low pay, and no benefits, which is exactly what MAGA wants to return to.
YOU are the problem with America. This mentality is why MAGA controls our nation.
FDR didn’t kill those people, his actions are not the same as Hitler’s. Lincoln suspended Habeus Corpus, and the North operated POW camps that made Nazi Concentration camps look like a resort.
War is an ugly, monstrous thing, and decent people are forced to make immoral decisions. Some are going to be right and some are going to be wrong. We never know until it’s over, and have to live with the consequences. You have no idea if interning those people means that a spy was bottled up, and couldn’t sabotage the war effort toward the Japanese. The internment may have saved the war, but we’ll never know.
What I do know, is that after the war, those people went free. They were NOT detained for life, they weren’t executed. OTOH, Social Security has saved millions of lives, and employment reforms have saved millions of lives, and both have greatly improved the lives of EVERY American worker, every single day. That kind of fundamental improvements in the lives of every American cannot be simply dismissed because of one disagreeable action. ON BALANCE, FDR’s good works far outweighed his worst mistake.
You are one of those shallow political thinkers who only see black & white, and are incapable of processing any nuance, which is unfortunately what politics is all about for many people. They want it to be easy, and morally indisputable, but the world is far more complicated than simple concepts or solutions. Your leaders are not going to be perfect saints, and if you insist that they are, then we are going to have nothing but MAGAs running our country in the future.
Interesting you bring up MAGA. They’re currently building concentration camps. Are you going to hand wave that too? Apparently the dow is over 50,000. Hypothetically, how high would the Dow have to go before you’d forgive trump for building concentration camps? When does it go from “horrific human rights abuses” to “he was a complicated man”? How expensive is it to buy your respect?
Having your face on currency is apparently a great honor in this country. I’m not suggesting we end social security or the interstate highway program. But get his smug fascist ass face off the dime. Good countries don’t honor men who throw people in concentration camps.
WTF are you talking about? Who cares about the fucking dime? You’re the MAGA supporting the end of Social Security and all workplace protections because of one mistake made during the biggest war in human history.
You would kill MILLIONS of Americans in the nearly century since WW2, because some people were once inconvenienced during that war. Refugees are an ugly reality of war, and America has been able to avoid it for the most part. This is as close as we’ve come, and at least we learned some harsh lessons from it, that will lead us to avoid such choices in the future. That is about the best you can expect from the limited positive outcomes from any war.
I’m sorry for what happened to the Japanese-Americans in WW2 (for which our government has apologized, and compensated), and I hope we never do anything like that again. But do I think that FDR, and all the lifesaving programs he accomplished should be dismissed because of one disagreeable decision during the worst war in human history? Of course not, that’s just STUPID.
I support removing this garbage human being’s portrait from the dime and that’s all. You apparently support hand waving atrocious civil rights violations by saying they’re just “one mistake”. So where’s your line? What would trump have to do to buy your respect? Clearly you have a price.
Go tell your grandmother that you want her to lose her Social Security, and go tell your boss that you’ll be glad to work on dangerous equipment 16 hours a day, 6 days a week ( so you can to Cult on Sunday), with no overtime or any other benefits, all for payment in company scrip.
And make sure you tell them it’s because of Japanese Internment Camps from a century ago.
Nobodys talking about getting rid of social security. Stop moving the goal posts and stop defending objectively shitty people because they had some policies you liked.
YOU are the one who has dismissed FDRs ENTIRE legacy because of one mistake, which means that if you had your way, and FDR wasn’t president to intern the Japanese-Americans, you would be perfectly comfortable without Social Security or any of the workplace and employment benefits that YOU take for granted.
So you are advocating for not interning the Japanese-Americans, in exchange for surrendering all of FDRs labor reforms.
MOST Americans would not make that trade, including most Japanese-Americans.
That “one mistake” being throwing 100,000 Americans into concentration camps. That’s at least 100,000 mistakes.
I am not advocating for time travel. I am advocating removing a really bad person’s portrait from the dime. You do know that removing him from the dime wouldn’t automatically invalidate every law he passed, right?
So what would you trade in Trump’s case? You’re clearly willing to negotiate on atrocities, what would he have to bribe you in order for you to ignore his?
You really are BAD at this.
The difference is that FDR’s presidency was basically one major improvement for American citizens after another, including winning the worst war in human history, and his positive improvements still provide daily significant protections for every American citizen to this very day. He actually has a positive legacy to BALANCE the Internment issue, which is basically his only misstep in 4 terms.
Trump does not have ANY positive policies to mitigate the many, many criminal instances of treason, corruption, murder, pedophilia, and more that he has partaken in or facilitated. There will be no “trades” in Trump’s case, he will be lucky to avoid being the first president to be executed, which is what he deserves.
You owe nearly everything positive in your life to FDR. Without the protections he put on workers, and regulations for employers, we would still have dangerous workplaces like the early 20th centuries, with long hours, low pay, and no benefits, which is exactly what MAGA wants to return to.
Thing is, you’re arguing with someone who chose to call themself “the_crotch”. This is not someone who appreciates subtlety.
Valid.