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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] 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Henry Fucking War Crimes Kissinger

He lived a long life and died peacefully, thinking he got away with it all. That only means bringing him back for punishment would be the perfect surprise of an afterlifetime.

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

The Dulles brothers, Ronald Reagan, ALL billionaires, George Bush Sr., Joe Lieberman, Ben Netanyahu, Henry Kissinger, Hillary and Bill Clinton, David Brock, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Margaret Thatcher, (obviously) Trump, Miatch McConnell, Joe β€œCorn Pop” Biden, Jon Bolton, Colin Powell, Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill (for the Nakba), Woodrow Wilson, Theodor Herzl, and SO SO many more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the most evil bastard in history, but I think the world would be a vastly different and better place if Klemens von Metternich died young.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That fish that crawled onto land and spawned humanity.

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

Hell yeah let’s beat it like a piΓ±ata

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I bet that's what the bigger fish were doing to it and why it crawled out in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Man, a hard choice here.

I'll go with Columbus. It takes a special kind of motherfucker to arrive in an unknown country, observe peaceful people living in tranquility, and your first thought THAT YOU EVEN WROTE DOWN was: "Holy fuck I can steal all their shit if I want to."

And then you go on to make them basically extinct.

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

Thomas Midgley Jr. (leaded petrol, CFCs, lots of deaths at the "ethyl" factory)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

"[He] had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

2nd indonesia president, soeharto.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Phylis Schlafly, one of the main architects behind the modern religious right controlled GOP.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Reading more on her and wow, she's a piece of work. What a turd. She's not even conservative, but reactionary.

How did she get that reactionary in the first place? At least she died of cancer. That's good. But she should have died earlier.

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

One of the greatest political operatives of the 20th century, in terms of how widespread her horrifying legacy is. She only cosplayed as a frumpy housewife all while trying to lock the US an eternal fictionalized version of the 1950s.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is he worse than Reagan?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago

I'm going to go with Leopold II of Belgium because of the atrocities this fucker unleashed upon the democratic republic of the Kongo.

Kissinger also come to mind, but he's not been dead long enough to be brought back yet, I think I'll leave that fucker to a generation that doesn't get hypertension just hearing the name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And put him on an island! Climbing a tree for coconuts! I didn't even have to click the link :)

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

You're gonna bring them back and send them to paradise?

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

Sean Lock everybody!

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You do know that his 40hours a week was a dramatic reduction in working hours compared to the norm at that time?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. There are a lot of reasons to give Henry Ford shit, but the 40 hour workweek was one of the better things he did.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

he did.

*organized labor forced him to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nope, he did this one himself. The reason? His employees spent so much time at the factory, they didn't have time to actually buy his cars.

Yes, he improved working conditions to make a profit on his cars. A selfish reason, but it inadvertently helped us all.

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