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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

We study these questions using the staggered introduction of Craigslist (CL)—the world’s largest online platform for classified advertising—across U.S. counties between 1995 and 2009.

So well before TACO Don was even a candidate.

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cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Like that matters? You think fucking Gingrich and all those cunts were halfway normal? The last decent republican was Eisenhower.

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- compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Ah yes, Eisenhower, famously a good guy for running fucking Operation Wetback.
  
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  - friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Dang, TIL!
    
    The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States.
    
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  - cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It’s all relative, isn’t it. Would you rather him, when the tax on rich people was over 90%, or any of the vile cunts after him?
    
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    compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Well, for me personally, since I’m an anarchist, I’d rather have neither. Power corrupts, and giving too much unchecked power to any individual will lead to harm. Even FDR, one of America’s “best” presidents, also oversaw redlining and the Japanese internment camps.
    
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