• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    19 days ago

    Franklin D. Roosevelt, a US president who in the 1930’s ended the great depression by finally implementing some social welfare programs and reining in corporate power somewhat (like protecting the right to unionize) to prevent a socialist revolution.

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      19 days ago

      God I love the Fediverse.

      Feels weird, but I just love that people answer questions and aren’t jerks about it.

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      18 days ago

      All accurate beyond debate except for the part about his social programs ending the depression. That point is debatable, the debate being that it was actually deficit spending to industrialize for WW2 that did it.

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        18 days ago

        That’s fair, I guess FDR at least started the ball rolling toward fixing it before we entered the war.

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      17 days ago

      implementing some social welfare programs … to prevent a socialist revolution.

      The irony…

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      17 days ago

      TL;DR he was just a pussy who implemented pro worker laws just to deter socialist USSR influence