Gosh, I can’t believe Forbes whiffed on a social justice issue, they’ve been so deeply committed to those principles throughout their publication history /s

Mike Duncan seems like a pretty cool dude, and the Revolutions podcast is incredibly good

“Ronald Reagan? The actor?!”

Yeah, this sounds like a really reasonable list

In terms of “most influential, in a positive sense,” I feel like LBJ at least deserves a mention too. Lots of stuff people just assume has been around forever like Head Start and PBS/NPR and Medicare came from his administration (plus all the civil rights acts). If it wasn’t for the whole ramping up the Vietnam war thing and all the sexual harassment he did he’d be an easy favorite for me.

I’ve only recently started educating myself them, so this group may have some ugly things in their history I haven’t learned about yet, but -

There was/is a nationalist social democratic Palestinian organization that Hamas essentially chased out of town with support from Israeli religious conservatives, and I feel like people who want a free Palestine need to talk more about them, because social democratic sounds a hell of a lot better than whatever the hell Hamas’ policies are

I’ve kind of been completely absent for the past 3+ months

relatable tbh

Oof, that does deserve a more prominent mention

Oh yeah, he was terrible too

Another horrible thing he did that video didn’t have time to fit in - the re-enslavement of Haiti

That was pretty much all Congress and a lot of great researchers and journalists throughout the 50s and 60s writing things like Silent Spring that got the general public to a place where they were demanding it. If Nixon hasn’t done something to make it look like he’d dealt with the issue we would’ve likely ended up with something more powerful.

e; I should add though - the world did get a little bit better with Richard Nixon’s EPA in it, just not as much better as it could and should have

Yeah, I go back and forth all the time on who’s the worst, one of those three or George “I knew Iraq didn’t have WMDs and I killed 100k Iraqi civilians anyway, oh and you’re welcome for ICE and warrantless wiretaps and extraordinary renditions and torture and Samuel Alito” W Bush

There’s a good argument to be made he was the most evil president we ever had. Between

• prolonging the Vietnam war by five years through sabotaging the negotiations while he was still just running for president
• perfecting southern strategy campaigning and organizing all the neo-Confederates we’re still dealing with as a new bloc of Republicans
• founding the DEA and kicking off the war on drugs to jail and destabilize anti-war protesters and the black panthers,
• all of the cheating he did during the 1972 campaign, which the Watergate break-in was only a part of
• Cheering on the genocide of Bengalis by Pakistani generals because “muh Cold War allies!”

the roots of a ton of our modern problems go back to this paranoid alcoholic racist piece of shit

e; had to add in the Bengali genocide

Actually Frankenstein was the doctor not the monster

“Putting a fruit on pizza is just wrong,” I huffed indignantly.

Tomato glanced nervously around the room before asking, “What the hell, why do I have eyes, what sort of cruel god etc.”

This meme could have been a Courtney Barnett album

Silencing the speech of a bunch of sociologists is probably a bonus for him

Cimple as

What’s your definition of “tankie”? If you’re willing to call out Putin’s homophobic journalist murdering authoritarian bullshit and the Chinese government’s massacring of protesters and genociding of ethnic minorities you’re not a tankie imo, you’re just a communist.