Fucking Reagan.
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Thatcher too while weβre at it.
I would have, but I was only allowed one choice. Of the two, globally, Regan did more harm.
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You do know that his 40hours a week was a dramatic reduction in working hours compared to the norm at that time?
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.
he did.
*organized labor forced him to do.
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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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.
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.
Solid choice.
I've been reading a book about the Theranos scam and learned he was on their Board of Directors, and it made me a little happy to know that, at least, he got taken in by a con woman and lost a shit ton of money.
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".
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
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.
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.
and you're so horrible that even your colonialist home is like "dude are you fucking crazy"
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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.
I have a celebratory drink every time I remember heβs dead, I donβt care what else Iβm doing, it can wait
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.
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.
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Phylis Schlafly, one of the main architects behind the modern religious right controlled GOP.
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.
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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Columbus, its personal, I just want to beat the shit out of him
Thomas Midgley Jr. (leaded petrol, CFCs, lots of deaths at the "ethyl" factory)
"[He] had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history"
And put him on an island! Climbing a tree for coconuts! I didn't even have to click the link :)
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God
If he's real (I don't think so)
King James. His persecution of women caused centuries of problems
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 βCorn Popβ Biden, Jon Bolton, Colin Powell, Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill (for the Nakba), Woodrow Wilson, Theodor Herzl, and SO SO many more.
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.
Interesting! I learned something here. Thank you.
Interesting bit from Wikipedia:
Had Metternich not stood in the way of "progress", Austria might have reformed, dealt better with its problems of nationality, and the First World War might never have happened.[94] Instead, Metternich chose to fight an overwhelmingly fruitless war against the forces of liberalism and nationalism.[95] Heavy censorship was just one of a range of repressive instruments of state available to him that also included a large spy network.[72] Metternich opposed electoral reform, criticising Britain's 1832 Reform Bill.[96] In short, he locked himself into an embittered battle against "the prevailing mood of his age".[97]
Sounds familiar. He's certainly not the last person to do so...
No one, then being dead is enough
Not a single person in this thread who says Hitler? Kind of disturbing tbh.
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).
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Nobody would risk that fucker coming back for anything.
Not mentioning Mussolini, Unit 731, Churchill alogn with Hitler? Kind of disturbing tbh.
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2nd indonesia president, soeharto.
Woodrow Wilson
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