• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    24 days ago

    I laughed out loud at this.

    An alternate opinion column could be: “One time, Adolf was an aspiring artist. Winston on the other hand, had rich parents, just like Osama Bin Laden.”

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      Winston Churchill was a genuinely awful human being and a war criminal prior to WWII.

      He lucked out by also being a moderately competent wartime leader, who gets to be juxtaposed against Hitler for eternity.

      Also, Brett Stephens is a bed bug and has a terrible track record of properly handling public backlash to his writing. I hope dark days are ahead for him.

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        Yeah I know he’s not an angel and is in the example specifically due to the juxtaposition.

        I understand someone brings this up everytime Churchill is mentioned in a good light, so out of curiosity: who would be a better comparable figurehead? Joseph? Franklin? Neville? Albert?

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        Also, Brett Stephens is a bed bug

        Wow we’re just going to allow blatant antisemitism on here /s