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52 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Nov 2024 \ on: The Daily Zap — Latest News and Updates alter_native
William Henry Harrison is easily the best (least bad) president in US history. Those historians are just statist morons.
William Henry Harrison
The shortest run man was the best because he did nothing? If I'm not wrong he was there for hardly a month as president?
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He essentially wasn't ever the acting president. He got pneumonia giving an extremely longwinded inauguration speech in bad January weather and it took about a month for him to die from it. The speech was pretty good.
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So, we declare him the best for doing nothing! Funny! We had a prime minister before Modi who occupied seat for 10 years but he didn't speak a single word.
But, I understand "Doing Nothing" is better than doing wrong things.
Have you read J.B Priestley's On Doing Nothing? https://wastepaper.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/on-doing-nothing.pdf
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No, I haven't read that.
When you understand the state to be an enormous criminal organization, there's no better alternative to them doing nothing, short of destroying the organization itself.
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Yes, that's true. I agree.
Read that piece by priestly, is not a very long essay. It takes on the importance of doing nothing quite cleverly.
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we cannot escape the fact that America is an amazingly prosperous country. But neither can we escape the fact that society there is in such condition that all its best contemporary writers are satirists.
That's a brilliant insight.