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Who from history would you bring back to make them punished for the wrongs that they brought onto the world?

Mine is Henry Ford. He's the catalyst of the 40 hour work week and 5 days a week that has been standard to the present day. Because we're seeing now how little that really does for anyone anymore, where people are having to sacrifice more of their freedom to work second jobs or more hours than they should.

I don't think it's his fault directly for those reasons, but him thinking the 40 hour/5 day a week plan is a good one is just a poor reading into the future with the way it's gone since the establishment.

wiase ,
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Not a single person in this thread who says Hitler? Kind of disturbing tbh.

PiJiNWiNg ,

I think he’s maybe just too obvious a choice and people are trying to be more creative in their answer.

Also, could the harm Hitler caused truly be inflicted back on his physical form? It seems to me like there is no way he could truly pay for what he’d done (if he were to live again).

sharkfucker420 ,
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Columbus, its personal, I just want to beat the shit out of him

corsicanguppy ,

You’re from the Caribbean?

sharkfucker420 ,
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I have a passion for mesoamerican history and art

ripcord ,
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No one. There’d not really any point I can think of to “punish” them at this point except satisfying some creepy, sadistic sense of “justice”.

andyburke ,
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Can you explain more why you think Ford's 40hr week is bad?

I thought it represented a pretty marked improvement compared to typical job requirements at the time?

Ford is no hero. A documented anti-semite with lots of other bad takes, but I am not clear on why you would pick his working hours as the thing to highlight.

Frozyre OP ,

Well, as I've said, he made that idea up in a time where it made sense and did well for it's time. But it started to not be a feasible system every turn of the decade and by the time we've reached the 2000s, the idea simply isn't cutting it anymore. Moreso in today's time.

A lot of ideas that were made in the early 1900s through the 50s came about in a time where it made sense and did well, least for a while. But many variables since then just diminished it's use. People aren't making as much in 40 hours than they should and they aren't making ends meet in those 5 days. People are expected now to have two jobs, more hours and no time for themselves or anyone around them.

weeeeum ,

Why is it his fault that in today’s society, the notion of a 40 hour work week is slowly becoming obsolete? Should we not celebrate the invention of the light bulb because LEDs are more efficient?

corsicanguppy ,

I thought it represented a pretty marked improvement compared to typical job requirements at the time?

To answer your question as written - based only on context - yes, you did think that.

FlashMobOfOne , (edited )
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Man, a hard choice here.

I’ll go with Columbus. It takes a special kind of motherfucker to arrive in an unknown country, observe peaceful people living in tranquility, and your first thought THAT YOU EVEN WROTE DOWN was: “Holy fuck I can steal all their shit if I want to.”

And then you go on to make them basically extinct.

pyre ,

and you’re so horrible that even your colonialist home is like “dude are you fucking crazy”

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Facts.

corsicanguppy ,

Lennart Poettering

Wait. Is this the start of the dark age of crumbling OS blobs, or the end? Can we still install apps or does it yet violate the terms of the microsoft agreement over linux?

slacktoid ,
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Churchill

Fredselfish ,
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What the fuck did Churchill do?

slacktoid ,
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Bengal famine off the top of my head

Lux ,

No one, then being dead is enough

Reverendender ,

Donald Trump.

dethedrus ,

Phylis Schlafly, one of the main architects behind the modern religious right controlled GOP.

Taalnazi ,

Reading more on her and wow, she’s a piece of work. What a turd. She’s not even conservative, but reactionary.

How did she get that reactionary in the first place? At least she died of cancer. That’s good. But she should have died earlier.

dethedrus ,

One of the greatest political operatives of the 20th century, in terms of how widespread her horrifying legacy is. She only cosplayed as a frumpy housewife all while trying to lock the US an eternal fictionalized version of the 1950s.

Reverendender ,

What did you think of the Hulu series?

NutWrench ,
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Henry Kissinger. Whenever you needed the most depraved, amoral, anti-democratic take on anything, whether it was the Vietnam war or the Khmer Rouge or the civil rights movement, you could always count on Henry farking Kissinger.

gAlienLifeform ,
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Not the most evil bastard in history, but I think the world would be a vastly different and better place if Klemens von Metternich died young.

MajorHavoc , (edited )

Interesting! I learned something here. Thank you.

Interesting bit from Wikipedia:

Had Metternich not stood in the way of “progress”, Austria might have reformed, dealt better with its problems of nationality, and the First World War might never have happened.[94] Instead, Metternich chose to fight an overwhelmingly fruitless war against the forces of liberalism and nationalism.[95] Heavy censorship was just one of a range of repressive instruments of state available to him that also included a large spy network.[72] Metternich opposed electoral reform, criticising Britain’s 1832 Reform Bill.[96] In short, he locked himself into an embittered battle against “the prevailing mood of his age”.[97]

Sounds familiar. He’s certainly not the last person to do so…

captainlezbian ,

King James. His persecution of women caused centuries of problems

neidu2 , (edited )

Henry Fucking War Crimes Kissinger

He lived a long life and died peacefully, thinking he got away with it all. That only means bringing him back for punishment would be the perfect surprise of an afterlifetime.

Iapar ,

That fish that crawled onto land and spawned humanity.

GammaGames ,

Hell yeah let’s beat it like a piñata

SubArcticTundra ,
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I bet that’s what the bigger fish were doing to it and why it crawled out in the first place.

SkaveRat ,

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/e15d88bb-ad05-45f5-b3f3-3659a31a6eb6.png

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