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Anon reads about Milton Friedman (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Luccus@feddit.org 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This just reminded me of a classmate from my teens who once said, in all seriousness, "Hitler didn’t just do bad things".

And I replied, "Uh, yeah". And in my mind, searching for something good he did, went like 'he built the Autobahn' immediately followed up with 'well, that didn’t turn out to be the best idea either', and by then the moment had kinda passed, and I couldn’t casually say "Well, actually […]".

Man, politics as a teenager was wild.

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He killed Hitler, so that's one good thing he did

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Can you really give him credit for that one though? He waited far too long until it was pretty certain someone else was going to do it any day now. He was even a loser in the one good thing he did.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

He killed Hitler's dog right in front of him

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Auto Bahn and infrastructure is pretty important to the war readiness of a country.

[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wod've been better if it were rail. It was really kind of stupid for him to go so all-in on oil-based transport like that. Even diesel trains would be a better choice than cars, but given the inevitable war shortages, it probably would have been sensible to stick with either coal-powered steam trains, or electric trains.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

The auto bahn could also be used by Horses and other pack animals. Hitler was still testing the waters and wanted to disguise his infastructure for war as civilian. The auto bahn was very grandiose and fit his grand vision for Germany. All the countries had different rail gauges, so German rail was not as effective for moving into other countries like road infrastructure was.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

I hear he was a pretty good speaker 🫣