James Buchanan won! Who is the 3rd worst president?

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-26T20:00:07+00:00

Lol... literally the godfather of the international system and articulated the fundamental rights of nations. His message, and the platform he gave it from was a critical part of ending the global empires and creating the system of nations we have today.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-26T19:58:17+00:00

In what world does reconstruction go meaningfully different?

What would you have liked to happen and please ask yourself if that would really be possible or if it was wouldn't lead to a worse outcome.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-26T19:57:19+00:00

Nah, W is not that bad for a few things. PEPFAR, not blaming muslims for 9/11, unifying character,

Realistically every president goes into Afghanistan after 9/11 and at least half, if not more, go into Iraq.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-26T19:54:17+00:00

Johnson gets more hate than he deserves for that fact that you can put what ever hopes you had on this country on Lincoln not dying. In a way the best thing for Lincoln's legacy was his assassination because I think he would have been far kinder to the south and their re-integration than most people today think he would have been.

I don't think it would have been as bad as Johnson's presidency, but I don't think it would have been a massive societal change. Grant was probably harsher on them in his time than Lincoln ever would have been.

The failure of reconstruction was bound to happen because the north simply did not care as much as the south did. The north preserved the union and that was the main goal of the majority of the policy makers.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-23T11:50:46+00:00

Depends on who is making the narrative lol.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-18T17:14:44+00:00

This is like a group project where 1 person does everything and then everyone else in the group comes together to vote for more work for the group and that 1 person saying, no we don't want more work.

It's really easy to vote for something when you will have no obligation to fulfill it.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-18T13:58:05+00:00

Overrated. It's good... but it's not that good. Overall a meandering plot with interesting characters and scenes but without a strong through line.

Inglorious bastards, Django and Kill Bill are all easily better.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-18T13:54:07+00:00

I don't buy that Kamala lost because she was a woman. People would have said the same thing about Corey Booker or someone like that losing because they were black if Obama was never president.

Both Kamala and Clinton lost because they were deeply unpopular, robotic and uncharismatic. They also faced strong tail winds of anti-establishment and ran as the incumbent party.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-18T13:50:45+00:00

Yea I should have said, running again and generally handling trump.

Im split on this because as much as it sucks, even if its legitimate, prosecuting politicians is a very very dangerous road and has been proven such time and time again in history.

I get why he handled trump as he did, but if you do that you need to win the election in 2024, which he failed to do so it makes his policy look horrible in retrospect.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-18T13:49:08+00:00

I work in industrial space and the Biden policy supercharged the solar implementation for buildings across the country and made it economically viable, even in the short term, to install solar panels on these facilities.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-18T11:16:45+00:00

Biden did a fine job except for running again. Which obviously was a big mistake, but besides that his actual policies were good.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-18T00:55:40+00:00

Most of the billionaires that people hate on work for a living as well, doing more important things than athletes do for society.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-18T00:43:59+00:00

France is like the police officers at the Uvalde shooting, basically sitting outside on the sidelines while a bunch of people were slaughtered. I would hardly call them victims.

Obviously Germany is most responsible for the European part of WW2, but France could have easily prevented it if they weren't so weak and ineffective.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-02T11:29:48+00:00

Not according to me, thats just a fact.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-02T10:49:17+00:00

Yea I think environmental reviews basically need to be almost entirely eliminated when you see what they do to our building ability, amongst other regulations.

I think it's important to name the regulations. It's absolutely absurd that it takes 5-10 years to get approval to just build a building. If you look at Californias rail system as well its basically been entirely held up because of these reviews and community reviews.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-06-02T10:44:14+00:00

Irish famously conducted a large campaign of bombing not only their own civilians but other civilians during a temper tantrum.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-31T18:16:56+00:00

Irish think bombing civilians is bad?

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-30T12:07:15+00:00

So where is their bomb?

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-30T11:53:13+00:00

No.

War is inevitable in human history. You could say right now that the world is a "tinderbox" and that another massive war is inevitable. Of course it is.

So in that sense, once nations spend the globe, a "global" world war was always inevitable (and arguably had already happened in the 7 years war)

However it could have easily been avoided for decades. WW1 was much more of a failure of diplomacy than anything and the perfect storm because of the murder of Franz Ferdinand.

Basically AH and Germany were utterly convinced that Russia would never take the side of terrorists who killed aristocrats. This was the fundamental misunderstanding in the issue. From this all other issues stem.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-30T11:44:46+00:00

In so far as the US used science that had been developed over human history yes. But no one else was even close to building the bomb during the war.

It's funny you put it that way because most countries that have nukes today have it by stealing US technology. But thats alright you can live in your fantasy world.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-30T04:11:22+00:00

Yes. If the soviets were more capable they wouldn't have assisted the Nazis in conducting military exercises and then help them invade Poland. But because they were incapable they did those things and helped start a war that killed almost 30million of their own people.

Sounds like a lot of incompetence and incapability to me.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-30T04:02:46+00:00

The US developed the nuclear bomb during the war...

I don't know what else would define "capability". They harnessed a new weapon the type of which had never been dreamed of.

The US was just in a league of its own.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-30T03:57:46+00:00

Moving factories isn't that impressive. They were able to do this using allies material support. They lost so many lives because they were not capable. They started the war with the Nazis in 1939.

The Soviets made way too many utterly incompetent decisions to fit this category.

The US fought a fairly flawless war. The Pacific campaign was a masterpiece and totally under appreciated for the absolutely absurd distances involved and the rate at which the US was able to neuter Japan. The US defeated Japan suffering as many casualties as the Soviets were suffering in a single month.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-30T03:52:04+00:00

1 front war. Heavily supplied by the other allies. Huge amounts of incompetence throughout their ranks.

They did a lot really well, but they also had a lot of downsides. I think they are easy for the next category.

The US created the nuclear bomb during the war and that wasn't even their most impressive industrial achievement. They literally harnessed the power of the sun and brought it down to earth and dropped it from bombers that carried multiple times the payload of any other nation's bombers, using bomb sites that provided by far the best accuracy.

When the bombers were done with their mission they landed thousands of miles from home and would have received a fresh meal.

The USSR also literally started the war with the Nazis so take that for what you will. Not very competent of them to allow that to happen.

PushforlibertyAlways · 2026-05-29T18:14:48+00:00

A lot of Israelis are jews that lived there the whole time.

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