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Who from history would you bring back to make them punished for the wrongs that they brought onto the world? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 8 months ago

Woodrow Wilson

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

God

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reagan and Thatcher.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Nobody would risk that fucker coming back for anything.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 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] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago

No one, then being dead is enough

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

Donald Trump.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're from the Caribbean?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have a passion for mesoamerican history and art

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 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 8 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] 28 points 8 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] -8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Well, as I've said, he made that idea up in a time where it made sense and did well for it's time. But it started to not be a feasible system every turn of the decade and by the time we've reached the 2000s, the idea simply isn't cutting it anymore. Moreso in today's time.

A lot of ideas that were made in the early 1900s through the 50s came about in a time where it made sense and did well, least for a while. But many variables since then just diminished it's use. People aren't making as much in 40 hours than they should and they aren't making ends meet in those 5 days. People are expected now to have two jobs, more hours and no time for themselves or anyone around them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You want to read more about Jack Welch and shareholder supremacy.

Fuck Jack Welch.

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

So his "crime" that you want to punish him for is that he improved things in a way that made sense in the context of his time instead of looking decades into the future and forcing a drastic change immediately long before society was anywhere near ready for it? Seriously?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Why is it his fault that in today's society, the notion of a 40 hour work week is slowly becoming obsolete? Should we not celebrate the invention of the light bulb because LEDs are more efficient?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

King James. His persecution of women caused centuries of problems

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