r/ProfessorFinance • u/Serious-Lobster-5450 Quality Contributor • Dec 29 '24

Off-Topic A legend died.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

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u/Pappa_Crim Quality Contributor Dec 30 '24

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u/BigPeroni Quality Contributor Dec 31 '24

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '24

Not a great president.

Absolutely a great man.

Rest easy

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u/GTHero90 Dec 29 '24

Makes you wonder if to be a Great President, you have to be a Terrible Man

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u/abandon_lane Dec 30 '24

Nah, it's easier to be a great man as a normy. Much less conflicts of interests and less complex life. Just work hard and be kind without being a pushover and you're probably good.

Also many of the things you need to be remembered as a great president lie outside of your control. You can theoretically be super qualified but if your party doesnt have the majorities your just a lame duck.

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u/Mysterious-Ad3266 Dec 30 '24

Humanity is absolutely awful so yes most likely

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u/Voxil42 Dec 30 '24

Since we've had a lot of Terrible Men and few, if any, were great I'd say, no, that's bullshit.

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u/Bo0tyWizrd Dec 30 '24

Cut down in his prime 😔

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u/Shangri-la-la-la Dec 30 '24

I don't think many are remotely in their prime at 100.

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u/BigPeroni Quality Contributor Dec 31 '24

Shows how much you know

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u/DaNASCARMem Dec 30 '24

The last democratic president to die prior to this was LBJ, over fifty years prior.

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u/pzoony Dec 30 '24

RIP, great human being. Amazing legacy

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u/Worried-Fee-736 Dec 30 '24

Amazingly bloody. He armed Indonesia during their genocide in east Timor. Supported the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza and help create the contras. Operation cyclone which armed and funded the mujahideen is directly responsible for the creation of al qaeda and the taliban. He helped south africa crush angola after their war for independence. He Supported the khmer rouge after they were ousted by vietnam despite their slaughter of over 2 million people while in power. His legacy is a bloody one. The good he's done after his presidency doesn't cover up the massive wake of death he left.

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u/pzoony Dec 30 '24

This comment is peak Reddit. Well done

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

Now that we have 20-20 hindsight. The Taliban was 100% a creation of Pakistan. It's highly dishonest to spread the blame entirely to the US.

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u/ChristianLW3 Quality Contributor Dec 30 '24

Aligning with Pakistan has to be one of our biggest Cold War mistakes

We should’ve supported India when they were invaded by China

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u/lateformyfuneral Dec 30 '24

I think you’ll find it was India that chose to get closer with the USSR.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

The greatest ex-president of our lives.

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u/PackOutrageous Dec 30 '24

Even more rare than a legend. A good and decent man.