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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Kennedy got to the moon by giving some Nazis a free pass for heavy participation in the Holocaust.

Clinton got to the White House by pushing for and signing the death warrant for a man who was executed with a mental age of 9 as a campaign stunt. Also a serial molester.

Obama became Pakistan’s No.1 Wedding crasher, had a personal kill list, reneged on his promise to close the US concentration camp in Cuba and bugged Merkel’s phone.

If these are the best examples someone can come up with, it rather illustrates how we got to this point. Those were the “good” ones.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago

Kennedy got to the moon by giving some Nazis a free pass for heavy participation in the Holocaust.

This is a bit of a stretch. Von Braun and co already got their free pass long before Kennedy became president.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep. But they gave him a Nobel Peace Prize for... saying nukes are kind of bad?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

I think it was meant to be aspirational. Like he would have to earn it. Obviously it didn't work.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Operation Paperclip was 1945

Kennedy assumed office in 1961.

If Clinton was willing to raise the taxes on the highest earners by 7% a few more times I'd let him fuck me in the ass and watch him fuck your wife, too.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

And ofc... Where's genocide joe?!?