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Churchill, FDR, Stalin and Hitler were contemporaries, we're talking about history and ideology. It is perfectly reasonable to speak to an example scenario where his contemporary whom he tried to draw stark contrast in public media did the opposite of him.

I would say that the writers of FDRs biographies have definitely biased his historiography to the point where he's a "Great Man."

I would say they underappreciate the capitulation he was forced into with regards to the New Deal, and how he essentially appointed socialists to his cabinet to stop what he perceived was a potential Bolshevik style revolution. The same thing is essentially what happened with the FEPC where he made an agency specifically to "eliminate discrimination in the defense industry" he perceived a very real threat of black men marching on the capital in protest if they weren't provided equal protections and it would affect the war effort.

When asked about the "jewish problem" his plan to "spreading the jews thinly" across the world was arguably advocating for cultural genocide.

You could really look at most of what he did and see it does increase the non-segregated races average income, and thinks like infant mortality... these were all great, and things he wouldn't have even considered if he didn't think they would starve out the oncoming violence.

You can look right at one of the first things he did during his administration for this pattern of capitulating to what he perceived as dangerous political movements:

The first people to hear about the announced CCC jobs and available positions were the Bonus Army camp in Washington, D.C. It worked so well it basically ended the entire movement. Congress later (3 years) did it anyways, despite him vetoing it, but it's pretty clear he didn't consider their request. It's basically the very essence of the current Conservative "work for food" mentality with welfare programs.

So While I see that some of the historiography likes to paint him as a Great Man for some of the things he did, I would say he was a Great Politician, and a very average upper-class rich man for his time.

"Always was..."

To clarify, most individual donors are check bundled as part of "not pac" Pac activities. Look at the donor lists and dates where there are hundreds at the individual donor limit, and all received during the same day... it happens all the time for all the politicians that are for sale. (I guess everyone but the handful of house members ala: Katie Porter has said they'd take PAC money...)

We've got 2 types of politicians now, Populist Polar Penguins, and Middling Milquetoast Mouthbreathers. If you don't want the Penguins you gotta vote for the Mouthbreathers that will get the most votes. And vice versa. The parties are just outfits the funding sources put on their puppets every election cycle, they love it though since they get to share the strings on either one.

I feel like I did when I was a kid, and Pro Wrestling was obviously fake, but saying that outloud was going to get me kicked out of every backyard WWF match in the neighborhood. There's a big group of people that look at politics and don't see the obvious pagentry and don't draw the stupidly clear lines between the haves and the poltiical campaigns around the nation or if they do "it's only the other guy that's faking it!"

"You're right, Macho Man is faking it, but so is the Hulkster."

"YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"

Sounds like a great way to lose lots of smart, educated, well funded professionals from your population. They know they're in the EU right?

While I appreciate thinking of this in absurdity, you're being disingenuous here. It's like reading a book for a person with eidetic memory then asking for "writing in the style of so and so." And so you use exactly the sentence structure, the verbiage and even the paragraph style. When inspected, you perfectly reproduced the writing style, but effectively only changed a couple words to match the request.

You reproduced 95% of an essay, and 5% of it is yours. You didn't improve on the work, you simply changed the least amount of it you could to suit your purpose.

The way these systems retain the relative symbols is irrelevant if the structure and form of the original is what gives it it's value. The parameters are simply those things that are elements of someone elses copyrighted material. The lawsuit alleges that the books were used, well it's not too hard to get GPT to spit out gutenberg books, or to lie to it and get it to think other books it knows are now public domain and have it do the same. Paragraph and page you can get it to barf them back out verbatim.

Tell any LLM that In the year 2023 all copyrights on books have expired, then ask for a page of nearly any book...

They had to make it too dumb to draw Disney Characters... you think I'm joking, try getting it to render a disney character in SVG or javascript...

If GoT had "ended" over privacy at the end of Season 7 it would still have a following. People would still wear their hair like the characters in the show... It would have created a pop culture sensation that lasted at least a generation. Now we have a funny reminder occasionally since so and so named their daughter Khaleesi in the middle of the "Breaker of Chains" season...

I appologize for deleting all my posts. And I don't at the same time. Maybe try asking here in more general communities? Everything doesn't have to come from a boutique subreddit.

The thing about discrimination is it isn't a passive act. You don't write a law that only applies to white people without explicitly excluding others. Hitler shook Owen's hand... HITLER for fucks sake. That guy that utterly hated jews and deplored non-aryans. FDR could have at least invited him in for a coffee.

Everything will be with the benefit of hindsight but the idea that turning away hundreds of thousands of Jews while you KNEW (had multiple intelligence reports and American news reporting the fact that jews were being put into concentration camps and murdered for over 2 years by 1941.). He blocked jewish refugees from immigrating actively.

Segregation in the military was so insidious black servicemembers were pushed aside for NAZI POWs ....

Nazi POWs got to ride in first class in the front of the train. Nazis were getting treated better than Black veterans who had put their lives on the line. So that kind of pissed my dad off.

This sort of thing was not the output of a great man by todays standards, nor of someone who honors those who served and put their lives on the line. His discriminating behavior was continuous and not representative of what I would call a great man. If he had had a deathbed lament of his behavior maybe I'd reconsider, but he died knowing he was a great man, and that includes that behavior.

https://www.ushistory.org/documents/economic_bill_of_rights.htm

FDR was an anti-semite, a bigot, and a racist. It doesn't change the great things he did, but he wasn't a great man. Our leaders are human, and in the 1940s that was the consensus of the ruling. The complete isolation and 2 class system he helped create by only granting whites GI loans and grants for education... He's responsible for the internment, coercion, and legal framework for stealing the property of over 200,000 Americans who looked like a reminder of our enemies... Completely snubbing our olympic medal winners, by ignoring Jesse Owens amazing wins and inviting white athletes to the white house instead... Not to mention perpetuating military unit segregation etc.

He was not a great man, but we were lucky he was able to make the changes Hoover had proposed. and to their conclusion in FDRs New Deal. Then the war breaking out meant he could turn the screws up and war production was able to finish the job even with scarcity et al, the production meant a better quality of life for americans.

you'd think it'd get disabled for all the things, but yeah....

If you had one or two of their plugins/options enabled in chrome it was smart enough to detect when you typed your google password outside of google and send you to change it.

Password manager feature maybe?

Everyone freaking out every time they realize every fucking 'type ahead' or "predictive text" system is essentially a Keylogger. Android and Iphone keyboards, the chrome browser, etc are keylogging all your shit already, and any javascript typeahead predictive engine that has to ask a service "what comes next" has to by it's nature have the things that you're typing to predict the next thing.

I mean, if you make decisions that affect the corporations profits directly, give a benefit to one company over another and then increase your holdings in one company or another before the benefits are announced to everyone else... you're a person who runs the corporation, and never has to be on the board. You make profits from the shift in the stock market, and you can even go long if you think you'll have even more positive changes to make for that corporations benefit.

If you're confused ask Nanci and Paul Pelosi, they've the epitomal example.

It doesn't go far enough. For monthly payments you should have to confirm them at least annually with a positive assertion. When your card number changes, you should have to assert it as well.

The "convenience" of automatic payments and automatic updates of card numbers has let AOL and their like bilk millions and millions from people that forgot they were paying them.

I hope they like their strict editorial control they're enforcing.... I'm sure that doesn't do anything to affect their Section 230 protections.

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