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Mine is Henry Ford. He's the catalyst of the 40 hour work week and 5 days a week that has been standard to the present day. Because we're seeing now how little that really does for anyone anymore, where people are having to sacrifice more of their freedom to work second jobs or more hours than they should.

I don't think it's his fault directly for those reasons, but him thinking the 40 hour/5 day a week plan is a good one is just a poor reading into the future with the way it's gone since the establishment.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Woodrow Wilson

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

God

If he's real (I don't think so)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

they wouldn't care unless you literally did a Christmas Carol-esque past/present/future consequence tale with them. They have enough fans here in the present to shield them from guilt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Not a single person in this thread who says Hitler? Kind of disturbing tbh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not mentioning Mussolini, Unit 731, Churchill alogn with Hitler? Kind of disturbing tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Lets not forget Pol Pot

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Nobody would risk that fucker coming back for anything.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think he's maybe just too obvious a choice and people are trying to be more creative in their answer.

Also, could the harm Hitler caused truly be inflicted back on his physical form? It seems to me like there is no way he could truly pay for what he'd done (if he were to live again).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Hitler is the kind of person you'd revive, kill again and revive to kill again until he hits the number of holocaust victims. No one single solitary death is sufficient enough.

That goes for any other leader that has allowed their citizens to die or even allowed their soldiers to die recklessly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Every victim gets to kick his nuts once every 2 hours and he can be tortured until loosing consiousness and then he gets a cooldown to recover until death?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No one. There'd not really any point I can think of to "punish" them at this point except satisfying some creepy, sadistic sense of "justice".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Counterpoint: dictators that died in their beds because of course they couldn't be prosecuted under their own regime and have them undergo fair trial. Bonus points if their victims are still alive so they can get some closure. Spain's Franco comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The best punishment is undoing their damage and teaching their sins to future generations as a warning.

And using their Graves as a gender neutral bathroom when we wanna scratch the sadistic justice itch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lennart Poettering

Wait. Is this the start of the dark age of crumbling OS blobs, or the end? Can we still install apps or does it yet violate the terms of the microsoft agreement over linux?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

No one, then being dead is enough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Donald Trump.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Columbus, its personal, I just want to beat the shit out of him

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're from the Caribbean?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have a passion for mesoamerican history and art

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

at first I chuckled because I thought that was a coy euthamism for beating the shit out of someone, until I realise you were just answering the question

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah... so much history lost because of that fucker.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Henry Kissinger. Whenever you needed the most depraved, amoral, anti-democratic take on anything, whether it was the Vietnam war or the Khmer Rouge or the civil rights movement, you could always count on Henry farking Kissinger.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a celebratory drink every time I remember he’s dead, I don’t care what else I’m doing, it can wait

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

For decades I was always surprised he was still alive. He seemed to live forever commenting on foreign policy. Just saw your post and was surprised he had died.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can you explain more why you think Ford's 40hr week is bad?

I thought it represented a pretty marked improvement compared to typical job requirements at the time?

Ford is no hero. A documented anti-semite with lots of other bad takes, but I am not clear on why you would pick his working hours as the thing to highlight.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

King James. His persecution of women caused centuries of problems

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