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One of many reddit threads:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/1itkkct/rebecca_marodi_a_fire_captain_in_california_who/

Some choice comments:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/1itkkct/comment/mds9v5w/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/1itkkct/comment/mdqif7u/?context=8

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Another great thread!

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1it1hnc/cal_fire_captain_found_stabbed_to_death_inside_of/

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1it1hnc/comment/mdl5ruu/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1it1hnc/comment/mdl695e/?context=8

Anyway that's enough comments, just search her name on reddit and have a schadenscroll. Before the big reveal, please pull up your crime statistics quick reference guide and have a look at lesbian rates of domestic violence. And now let's see what the news has to say!!!!!!!!!!

There was no sign of forced entry, there are no other suspects, and her wife already has a record for one domestic violence murder

Teehee

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universal sign of a trashy, low-value person

I was extremely fortunate growing up in my shithole backwater redneck rural farmtown, in the middle of the Free State province. Even by the time the mid-2000s arrived, the little mothball of a town was already crumbling in infrastructure. The township is currently known as THE most corrupt and shithole-esk municipality in the entire province, which is quite an achievement.

The trash lorries were never repaired or maintained, so that by 2010, all of them were brokenshit downtrodden, so that one of the local farmers had to donate a 2nd hand tractor with a wagon, just so that the town could ferry it's fricking ever growing heaps of black bags away from everybody's home.

And yet, the one exceptional privilege I had growing up, was that our Town Hall had a truly magnificent Public Library, which had collection of both fiction & non-fiction books well beyond what such a godforsaken shitheap town like ours ever deserved. All because the Head Librarian woman was an afrikaans ballbuster who beat up any whoreson who ever dared to abuse books in her sight.

It was here where I discovered a large collection of dilapidated Sven Hassel novels. During this time the Satanic Panic was in full swing, so conservacuck busybodies were prowling about the town to denounce any of the church's denomination, who's kids were reading such satanic shit such as Harry Potter or Digimon. Even doctor who books became anathema for god fearing folks.

So I knew I had to keep secret the Sven Hassel books I took out from the Library, because of their extremely gruesome front covers.

Or the massive amounts of Nazi imagery

So as a teenager, these types of books were very clearly the type of shit which would be WAY above the PG13 age-restriction, in which your parents would ban/forbid you from watching horror or gore movies like Aliens or Predator. It was clear for me and many who grew up in conservative/religious households, we would only ever be allowed to read adult material like this once we were outside of the thumb of influence of our parents.

So we read it in secret. For whatever reason, Sven Hassel appeared to have been popular for many Afrikaans young men, in many towns over in Safrica. I even managed to befriend some old stoner guy, who owned a metric shitload of WW2 novels written in the past century, like holy smokes this guy had every single WW2 fiction and non-fiction book about WW2 ever written, in ALL kinds of states! Some were in mint condition, and other books, like the Sven Hassel books he gave to me, were yellowed-out delipidated books from the 1970s!!

So many young men were falling in this History Buff (aka exclusively fricking WW2 shit ) and collecting WW2 stories from afar. And Sven Hassel had this weird underground mass popularity for young afrikaans men 16-24 young adult age group.

The reason? Because Sven Hassel novels were all incredibly brutal, as in brutality incarnate.

WHAT WERE SVEN HASSLE NOVELS ABOUT:

So what on earth hat were Sven Hassel books about?? They were all WW2 fiction novels revolving around penal battalions sent to their deaths, usually towards the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union, IN ww2. They depicted a cast of lowlifes, criminals, traitors and political dissidents who had fallen into the bad side of the Nazi regime, and were given one final chance of "redemption" from the eyes of the brutal regime, and subsequently always given the most suicidal front of the frontline position and jobs.

The protagonist penal Wehrmacht soldiers in Sven Hassel novels were quite unique in this time period of books, after WW2, and before the internet-era where facts could be checked from Smartphones. Being on the obvious "Bad Guy's" side of WW2, the protagonists were anything but heroic, they were the primeval anti-heroes.

And while anti-war novels with anti-hero archtypes existed from books like "All-Quiet-on-the-Western-Front" or Biggles the WW1 Biplane Bong antihero had existed in supreme abundance since the conclusion of the 1st World War, there were decisive differences between the characterization of books written from protagonists of WW1 & WW2.

WW1 anti-hero literature involved the dramatization of the futility and absurdity of war, and the cruelty of sending young men to die in Old men's conflicts. WW1 antihero and antiwar themes were more universal and "unpolitical" in terms of their timelessness.

The theming of WW2 was vastly different, considering the vast amounts of genocides taking places throughout the war, and NOT just from the Nazis. Croatians were busy slaughtering their Serbian Neighbours the moment the Wehrmacht gave them the opportunity. Belarussian partisans inflicted as much suffering upon their kin as Gestapo death squads, and Slavic families were culled based on whether they made the mistake of not supporting communists or nazis enough. There was a much greater sense of indefensible cruelty and warmongering, and was reflected as such in fiction.

Pretty much fricking zero perspectives made the day from the frontline kraut trooper's view in heroic or unheroic fiction in WW2 for pretty understandable reasons. The few exceptions like The-Forgotten-Soldier of Guy Sajer, a French Alsatian bastard whom was pressganged into the Wehrmacht due to his kraut ancestry, has a far more sympathetic theme in which unwilling participants found themselves swept into the maelstrom of the Nazi wars, and the subsequent horror and suffering they endured on the Eastern Front against their wills.

Sven Hassel was unique in the sense that the perspective was from the most base and barbaric men of the Wehrmacht.

Sven Hassel novels had a lot of dark themes, and would have been described as Grimdark if the moniker existed. Good men perish constantly for very little reason. A recurring meme is that the most noble and selfless of the Penal Battalion men, the best leaders and sergeants and men who try to look out for their fellow penal soldiers, tend to die like flies, whilst the lowest scum continue to survives the suicidal assaults like cockroaches. The maelstrom of the Eastern Front was legendary, but for those of us in Safrica, with finite resources, no internet and no access to European libraries, we had no capacity to gauge or experience it.

The Eastern Front housed some of the most ferocious battles fought in recorded human history, with death tolls and numbers ranging from the 100 000s to millions, a scope unthinkable for boers in a country, where our demographic barely numbered over 2 million, and yet twice than number of Russians were taught to have perished in Nazi POW camps alone, the amount of combat deaths on the Eastern Front alone numbered on a scale so depraved it defied imagination.

But because of the Cold War's censorship in South Africa, and censorship's momentum long after the fall of the Soviet Union, most of us took the word of Sven Hassel at face value, in terms of how he depicted events of the Eastern Front. We had absolutely no way of fact-checking his novels, or being capable of researching otherwise.

The sheer ferocity of the Eastern Front was captured in black-and-white pictures of mass-graves and the skeletons of cities reduced to rubble by Stukas and carpet bombing. Thus the sheer banality and brutality of description of warfare within Sven Hassel novels, gave him a lot of credence with people for like half a century, both in Safrican and Europe itself.

SVEN HASSEL BECAME FAMOUS:

Sven propelled himself to international fame, when he published "The Legion of the Darned" in 1953. The book provided an account of life as a German soldier on the Eastern Front, it opens with the author (book written in 1st person view) being tried and convicted as a deserter, and as a result being sent to a concentration camp.

The main character Sven as himself, spends a large amount of time suffering under the Nazi regime's prison system. He's recruited in bomb disposal for unexploded Bong aircraft-bombs,

before abruptly being "pardoned" and dispatched to a penal combat unit. Sven meets a bunch of degenerates who becomes his saviors throughout his misadventures and horrific ordeal on the Eastern Front, and the book climaxes as virtually everyone except the protagonist is gradually wiped out by the near end of the war in 1945, as Sven remains the lone survivor of the entire penal battalion of several hundred men, and is forced as the remaining veteran, to become company-commander, and train and equip the scrap of germany - old men and sickly teenagers.

Book got a bunch of accolades and positive criticism, and went on to be translated into a boatload of languages, including Dutch & English, which is found in Safrica. Legion of the Darned would become the first in a series of fourteen fiction novels detailing the misadventures and wartime experiences of Sven Hassel, as his own alter ego.

The books are pretty much interchangeable, with all of them occurring in different theaters of the Eastern Front, with a few exceptions, like when fictional Sven and the company of penal degenerates found themselves on an Italian troop transport bombed, and left afloat on open water, and endured much hardship stranded in the middle of the Mediterranean.

According to Sven, the books were fiction, but largely based upon real experiences which he had endured as an actual combat veteran captured by the Soviets in the final days of the Battle for Berlin in 1945, and then released amongst the few lucky fricks who survived Soviet detention.

The 1st book in particular has been reprinted for like 70 years.

BOOK MADE INTO FILM:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093546/

One of his bestsellers, the "Wheels of Terror", got made into the film "The Misfit Brigade".

Basically kraut version of Dirty Dozen. Not.....really.....good in my opinion.....

SVEN'S STYLE:

In spite of the drama to come, Sven Hassel was a spectacularly unique and engaging writer, he genuinely did have merits and talents as an author. He had the capacity to make exceedingly grim subjectmatter as enthralling, and many readers describe themselves as being bewitched by Sven, and continuing to read the continual atrocities depicted in his books, as if unable to look away from a car crash.

So the author is well liked and his books are often highly rated on websites like Amazon and Goodreads. And in a vacuum, as literary dark war fiction, they stand on their own as above average reviewed.

THE DRAMA: HISTORIC INACCURACY

So uhh, what's the problem? The issue is that pretty much every single one of Sven Hassel's 14 novels are all very VERY historically inaccurate. And while history is often coloured by bias, and Hollywood often takes liberties to tell stories and make movies, and holes can be punctured into pretty much all war fiction ever written, Sven is unfortunately in a league of his own, in terms of extremely levels of untruth and historic inaccuracy!

For those of us reading Sven Hassel novels in in the age before internet (2010 ) we genuinely took Sven's accounts at face value. Sven had eplicitly implied that while his books were fictional, they were based upon wartime experiences he personally endured, along with stories he had accumulated from his fellow soldiers.

But for those turbo neurodivergents whom studied WW2 and/or managed to acquire the fabled technology of Interwebs, you could come to conclusions about Sven Hassels's extreme levels of historic distortions pretty quickly. Additionally when I had the privilege to be have access to the University of Cape Town's library, I could also to my dismay determine that whilst I loved the Hassel novels, that Sven was pretty much full of shit.

Even worse for Sven Hassel fans is the truly depraved and massive rabbit hole of the many lies and untruths of Sven Hassel's life, and that since the beginning from as far back as 1953, Sven has had detractors whom documented his inaccuracies.

But because there was no internet, and because there were few ways to verify this shit one way or another, it pretty much didn't obtain momentum before 2000!

Like holy shit hold on to your pants!

https://www.svenhassel.com/biography/

According to Sven and his family estate (since even before the Internet-era and before he had a website), he claimed that at the age of 14 he joined the merchant navy as a cabin boy and worked on ships until his military service in 1936 he joined the Werhmacht because he was brokenshit poor at the time, and served until the end of the war in tanker units.

According to Sven it was in these panzer units where he met many batshit insane and colourful colleagues which inspired his equally batshit insane characters. He also claimed he had been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Danish prison for treason postwar, because he had served in Kraut forces which occupied Denmark.

Now according to Sven himself, as earlier stated, he had been apprehended by the Soviets in Berlin after unconditional surrender of werhmacht to the allies; and that he had spent multiple years hopping between POW camps postwar, from Soviet to French, and onwards.

BUT, local Danish newspapers had investigated postwar records, and determined that he had in fact been immediately arrested in Denmark in 1945 after the liberation and was held in prison there, first as a suspect and then as a convicted criminal, again because he had supposedly partook on occupying Denmark. And that he was released in 1949 after serving 4/10 years, as the Danish authorities gave amnesty to all Wehrmacht prisoners, as it cost more to house the frickers, than just let them be. According to the Danish papers, he had never been in either Soviet or french captivity

https://politiken.dk/navne/doedsfald/art5435426/Kul%C3%B8rt-dansk-krigsforfatter-er-d%C3%B8d

DANISH DOCUMENTARY CALLS SVEN A FRAUD:

https://www.dr.dk/presse/dr2-tager-seerne-bag-om-skandalen

Translated into English as best could with online Translator.

The basic story was that the reason Sven Hassel fricked off to Spain during the latter end of his life, was not because Hassel enjoyed Spanish countrysides so much, but because he had been culturally ostracized by his countrymen, and actual veterans of war - for both those who fought for the Wehrmaght and the Danish forces. They had called him out for his historic inaccuracy and apparent untruth about his non-service on the eastern front!

INACCURACIES

https://web.archive.org/web/20170925180602/http://www.litteratursiden.dk/blogs/ruben-palma/20121021

Again translated from Danish as best could. Upon his obituary some Danish historians went out of their way to highlight inaccuracies:

(1) Like many of the penal Battalion men in Hassel novels being furbished with Tiger tanks, which as absurd, as the Wehrmacht knew their extreme value, and Tigers were only ever furbished towards tanker Aces whom had proven themselves, NOT fricking random penal battalions whom would at best be furbished with Stugs or Panzer 4s when sent into teh suicical front engagements against enemy formations.

(2) Just like with Das Boot, pretty much everyone in the penal legions were anti-nazi and anti-Hitler, which is a perpetual clean Wehrmacght myth. Most soldiers were loyal or ambivalent, and only became bitter during the closing years

(3) There is great falsehood towards kraut POWs escaping very easily from Soviet detention centers and gulags. While kraut soldiers regularly escaped Soviet military detention, they were ruthlessly guarded, and were not these caricatures of dysfunction, in which all the menial labourers were happy-go-lucky fools whos just scraped to get by, and kraut prisoners could just walk out with timing.. Whilst other depictions of POW camps as slavedriving starving centers are more accurate.

(4) While combat is accurately depicted as ferocious chaotic hellzones accurately, often penal battalions are given equipment and weaponry not accurate to specific theaters on the Eastern Front - things easily picked out by actual veterans, as absurd glaring errors. Gewehr 43s were rare, and not doled out to penal fricks, only for elite SS or Werhmaght troops. Instead mausers or Karabiner 98k (regular chambered rifle) were the most common foot trooper weapon, whom were usually organized around the well-performing MG42. Kraut platoons (20-50 men) were usually organized to have their machine gun as the central keystone weapon around which the platoon was built, with their rifles and submachine guns as the supporting suppression weapons, because of how extraordinarily effective the MG42/41 machinegun was, not the other way around.

SVEN HASSEL STILL LARGELY POPULAR IN BONGLAND AND ANGLOSPHERE:

The thing is that in spite of all of this dramaram within Denmark, where Sven is largely seen as a fraud and hack, these detractors are largely localized, while in England he is still largely highly regraded, and fricking journos take his personal website at absolute face value!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sven-hassel-soldier-who-won-the-iron-cross-and-wrote-bestsellers-8317043.html

Here's guardian actually doing legwork for Sven's obituary in 2012

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/02/sven-hassel

=====(from TheGuardian)

On the lurid covers of the later paperback British editions, the double s in Hassel's name was printed as the double lightning-flash symbol of Heinrich Himmler's SS. Billed as worm's-eye-views of warfare from the German standpoint, the books contain some crude humour and a great deal more cruelty and brutality – they are war comics without the pictures, devoured especially by teenage boys.

Mystery surrounds the events of Hassel's own life, not least because he appears as a character in his own books. By his own account he was born Sven Pedersen in Fredensborg, Denmark, and later adopted his mother's maiden name.

Historians dug holes in Hassel's novels, especially his accounts of German military units. The 27th Panzer regiment, for example, was not, as described, a punishment unit or German version of The Dirty Dozen. Hassel's account of his own life – and his war experience in particular – was also disputed by some, including the journ*list Erik Haaest.

There were allegations that Hassel had links to the Danish Nazi party and that he spent most of the war in Denmark, picking up his combat stories from veterans of the Danish Waffen-SS.

=====(end quote)

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisible-ink-no-109-sven-hassel-6378433.html

====(from Independant)

When I was a child, my father guiltily read Sven Hassel's paperbacks, keeping them in his bedside table where the children wouldn't find them. Gruesomely illustrated with photographs of concentration camp inmates and tanks rolling over corpses, they seemed to represent the populist voice of war experience, but a question mark remains over Hassel's real identity.

However, there's another side to the story. Hassel's critics have been disputing his claims for years, saying that his identity was falsified for another purpose; he never served in a Panzer Division at all but was in fact a Danish Nazi who patched together his books from stories told to him by Danish Waffen SS veterans after 1945, having spent most of the Second World War in occupied Denmark.

[This is where things get really weird

Unfortunately, his biggest critic, the writer Erik Haaest, was discredited after denying that there were ever concentration camps. Even worse, Haaest's version of Hassel's life, in which Hassel runs a porn empire and gets his wife to write his novels

====(end quote)

Yeah apparently some of Sven's detractors were holocaust deniers and wingnut weirdos themselves

have a good day dramatards!

!bookworms !historychads !deathtomicks !germs

Just learned that there's a place in Ireland literally called Killbritain. Absolutely barbaric.

I do appreciate the random whale skeleton though

@MayflyAlt-98 discuss

srdines

You think we care 😂😂😂Burke was sacked for a repulsive attack on a defenceless woman on a night out. Oh and the sweetie... The USA absolutely depends on Ireland. Ah.. Didn't you know that from 2017, Trump tried IN VAIN to get 900 US Multi nationals to leave Ireland. REFUSED

— B. Conin (@bconin8) February 21, 2025

🇺🇸🇮🇪 WOW!

Vice President JD Vance just SLAMMED the pro-Hamas Irish government for their imprisonment of Christian schoolteacher Enoch Burke.

"The Irish government must free Enoch Burke immediately or else face significant sanctions"

Hopefully sanctions mean their tax heaven status will get crushed alongside their hopes and dreams

: You think we care 😂😂😂Burke was sacked for a repulsive attack on a defenceless woman on a night out. Oh and the sweetie... The USA absolutely depends on Ireland. Ah.. Didn't you know that from 2017, Trump tried IN VAIN to get 900 US Multi nationals to leave Ireland. REFUSED

>USA absolutely depends on Ireland

I thought this is a troll at first, but no this r-slur is for real

Ireland fits into the US 140 times. They do not need Ireland 🤣

: The size of Ireland doesn't matter. The USA and simply couldn't survive without us. Sorry sweetie. Have a nice weekend 😁

One of our states alone, and there's 50 of them, has an economy 6x bigger than your entire country's economy. Ireland is joke you fricking clown 🤡

Actually you chud, America couldn't survive without a bunch of self-hating alcoholic kitties, and that's a fact

: Oh but they do. 900 major companies who wouldn't survive without us. 9 TRILLION worth of finance transactions going through Irish cables DAILY (mostly American) and Shannon which the USA simply couldn't do without to fight whatever war it's currently engaged in.

She (I assume) comes back for another round just to prove how not triggered she is

9tr doesn't have to go through Ireland, Shannon is convenient that's all, plenty of other airports around.

: Shannon is essential. Any other airport is too far away. That's always been the case for decades

Too far away from where ?? It's an airport, you can fly UK to Australia nonstop ffs

: Not in the type of planes that Shannon is used for. Fighter planes refueling etc. No ones speaking about a regular plane here dear

Burger planes couldn't even leave America without Ireland's gracious help

Nobody depends on Southern Ireland in economic terms it's a non entity. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom . Southern Ireland is on a form of Global dole .

: Big multi nationals do. For our tax regime, our under water Sea cables that carry 9 TRILLION worth of financing transactions daily and of course our highly educated work force. Without our cables.. Its back to the stone age if anything happened to them. The world would go dark

Frick off you Twat . Southern Ireland was given a Better Tax Regime by the EU because it's a terrorist shithole . The idea being , give them free money and it will keep them quiet . Three clearing houses in the World, New York , London and Tokyo. Workforce -Travellers

Actually he whole world depends on Ireland for survival

David can't even do basic geography let alone a country's fiscal policies.

Go on then Mr Southern Ireland explain my lacking in Geography

There ya go.

Oh frick it's not a Republican Twat is it ?

Yeah I live in a republic so I suppose I'm a republican twat just like you're a royalist twat.

This started some fight I don't care about but the potato not-havers seem angry enough

Anyway, back to our nutjob...

You should check out our new Sec of Commerce and see what he has to say about US companies doing business in Ireland to avoid US taxes

: Simply saying what's being said for years. They're still here and likely to stay here. Companies like profits. Lots of billions of profits. Profits before patriotism 😁

Suddenly, commies like capitalism

Other things you need to know about our brave warrior

: PS.. The government CANNOT interfere with the courts in Ireland and we parents DEMAND THAT BURKE BE KEPT AWAY FROM OUR KIDS.... His choice.. Stay away from our kids or stay in jail

I'm a parent and you certainly don't speak for me . Get your pervy transgenderism out of schools.

: These students are young adults with rights. They have a RIGHT to study applied law including equality. The gra is part of the law in my country. You nor anyone will deprive our young people of knowledge. Live with it or don't. No one cares. But you won't interfere with our kids

Xer is also a train supporter, shocking I know

: I do it every year. I collect fabric from my tumble dryer and store it over winter and put it out when nesting season starts 🐥🐥

Not good though if synthetic with microfibres?

: Agreed.. Its just bits of wool, mixed fibers that are left over in the filter when I use my tumble dryer . They seem to like it

Hippie who leaves bits of cloth out for birds

For those who know nothing about Ireland... THE IRISH PRESIDENT NEVER VISITS THE WHITE HOUSE. Think president Higgins did ONCE ever. You honestly think anyone, especially us Irish care what you think.. Or cares what anyone thinks??

Really hates Merica, also very shocking

: Given Ireland is substantially superior in EVERY aspect to the UK, this is a sad reflection of the standards of education (socially and academically) in the UK. As we've helpfully pointed our on numerous occasions, YOU may apply to become part of the ROI.. don't hold your breath

Really hates the brits despite living in an failed version of Britania

Lesbians are never nice people. It isn't surprising this ugly woman Jenni Hermoso would slander his action. She looks like Trent Alexander Arnold but with bigger biceps.

: I've never known a lesbian who wasn't a nice lady. This woman is very pretty. The old guy who kissed her isn't remotely attractive

MeToo advocate

Berlin police broke up pro-Palestine protests for chanting and singing in Arabic after banning Arabic at demonstrations.

Germany losing it.

: They've always been on the wrong side of history for some reason

And supports the islamisation of Europe, third shocking revelation

And probably more dumb shit but I got bored of scrolling through it's account, hope you like my find

Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.

Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2025

What does that mean? I did my job?

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Supervisor > President

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I'm selling my Tesla!

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WTF They're not allowed to do that!

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You're not my boss!

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I think I can make an argument. FDR essentially created the welfare state, defeated the Nazi, and established the US as the global power. I think it's pretty impressive. Washington founded the country but he was also a slave owner which is much worse than anything FDR did. Lincoln ended slavery but there was a civil war and slavery would have ended by 1900 anyway. It was already on its way out. The idea that the US without the civil war woukd have kept slaver to 1910 is somewhat absurd in my view.Edit: Brazil is the last somewhat western country I know of to end slavery and it ended in like 1890 or something. (15)

Russia defeated the Nazis not FDR. America became a global superpower because of all the lend lease deals and that America was virtually untouched by the war.America was also double dealing by funding both sides. (-19)

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FDR single handedly drove this country into the greatest era ever, and out of the great depression. He redefined what it means to be American. Showing that in-fact, the world can be better and we must all take part in making it so. The founders gave us independence, George Washington showed us what a good president looks like, and Lincoln put morals over country, but it was FDR that made the image of the modern American. Without him, the American dream almost certainly would have died in the 40s and for that reason he is my favorite president. (38)

FDR help fund the Nazi war machine. FDR was a racist. FDR hated Jews. FDR brought Fascism to America.FDR broke the Washington tradition of only serving 2 terms.Amazing how people call Putin a dictator for doing what FDR did. (-18)

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Brought fascism?😂 respectfully wtf are you even talking about? (16)

Um if you do some basic research outside out the drivel that's taught in the American school system… you find that a lot of his policies are extremely similar to those of the very contemptuous people of his time. People simply tend to ignore the white washing of the history of those they admire. (-10)

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This is quite a difficult question to answer as all the US Presidents have been presented with different issues to respond to and the handling of those issues could be viewed differently by people with varying points of view.FDR had to respond to two major events in US history. The Great Recession and the attack on Pearl Harbor causing the isolated US to enter an already raging world war. Neither of these events was US-only events but as this post is discussing US Presidents, we can go with keeping this discussion to the US only.I am not sure any other US President had to deal with twin catastrophic events. And while FDR's predecessor (Hoover) has been maligned for his handling of the Great Recession at its start it was FDR who came up with the programs that helped the people in the US get through this catastrophic economic catastrophe. He did this with the help of both Democrats and Republicans. Given the extremes that the Republican Party has moved it is unlikely the Republican... (1)

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You're from the Confederacy? (2)

Were most post-WWII Brits actually Nazis since they voted out Churchill after the war? Most people at the time didn't care about ending slavery and were still very racist in the north. Then they lost a lot of men fighting in the civil war. After the war, reconstruction needed to happen which means spending money and putting effort into reviving the South. Obviously, that's not going over well with the northerners (and didn't with Andrew johnson) and of course the southerners still would hate Lincoln for ending slavery. (4)

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Yeah, and it (Lousiana purchase) DIdn't include a lot of what is New Mexico/Arizona and parts of Texas. ) Gadsen purchase, Railroad related. Greek and Roman lore? I use it, but I'm not into it. I'm a western US Gal, I see stuff happening, and I'm curious. That mud people quote? It's hard to find, let me see if I can find it for you. Ugh! Google not being helpful. I put the link to my source in my notes when I was researching, and I rifted off of it. It's a little disorganized, so it might take me a bit, as it might be in a text file (Links to where I got information) or the beginning document itself. (It's about 200GB's of stuff, and I wasn't really focused outside of the story, but I can find it.) I know I fact checked it at the time and backed myself up. I was okay with being wrong.)As to Johnson and Jackson? I'm kinda leaning in your direction -- I can't find anything good about them. I try to take things with an open mind, and put myself into the time. Johnson? I've yet... (1)

Yeah Texas and all that was Mexico still I believe and that's where I was born. But considering a lot of people define bad as the absence of good I gave Jackson and Johnson a nod. However in terms of who did the most to negatively affect the country Hoover is also on the list. I can't imagine watching your entire country struggle and then saying "ahhh it'll work itself out bro trust me". Quite possibly the dumbest president at the very least. No wonder FDR had to come in and create "communist policies". Cuz if he hadn't and they reelected Hoover we probably could have been property of another nation by now. I honestly can't talk too much on presidents because Monroe and then from van Buren up to Lincoln basically did frick all that I know of. Taylor and Harrison died fast as heck, Harrison was sick and barely lasted a month. I know a little from people Lincoln and past and from Madison and before. But nah the rest of those guys were basically just nothing figures as far as the histor... (2)

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Personally, I'm quite willing to give some of the Aussie outback to Israel.

**CALLOUT POST FOR U/XANDERDA, A ZI*NIST PUPPYGIRL**

I really wish I could explain this post or add context or something, but I have understand literally nothing about this post. I barely understand the start of the conversation and I have no fricking idea how zionism came up. /u/XanderDA came to defend themselves in the comments but it seems they weren't very successful

Bruh

this subreddit has no room for zionist puppygirls, sorry not sorry

Their post history doesn't provide any context, either. I checked OP's post history though and it is fricking amazing

kitty is so needyy, tell her what you'd do to her

>this is who is going to globalize your intifada

Bro can't even be bothered to shave. Neighbor is a "19 year old transfem" with the body of a 52 year old truck driver

I can’t believe this…

Is this actually true? This Gau Rakshak nonsense should stop now…

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Armed convoys of Hindu thugees patrol the national highways to dunk on mlecchas and you're blackpilling

I often see women engaging in this type of thing. It seems like bargaining to me. That if they can just find the right category of man they will find a good one for a relationship or be treated as a full human being.

Here are some of the categories of men women try to tell themselves might be better than others:

Older men

Younger men

Men of certain ethnicities

Gay men

Male family members

Men they've given birth to

Men they meet while volunteering

Men who don't identify as men

Widowers

Religious men

Men of a particular political persuasion

Men who have been in therapy

Men who have or don't have children

I'm sure I've missed a lot. The thing is all of these men have one thing in common:

THEY ARE MEN

And I will bet my last dollar they are going to show you exactly that at some point. They will always prioritize other men over women. I see this every day.

like is shit really gunna go down like that?

i was thinking about one of them mcx-spears chambered in 7.62 nato

i suppose i better get a shotgun too for the inevitable droneshit

im always FRICKING going to bed.

everwy day im' tired. and sleep

I'm so sick and tired of it I want to wake up but I'm tired and go back to sleep!

many such cases

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