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newworkaccount t1_jdttnkq wrote

People would be shocked by the progressive legacy Nixon left behind, and his environmental legacy is part of that. Senator Nixon, for instance, also had the first federal bill for a nationalized healthcare scheme (sponsored with Ted Kennedy, no less). He intentionally had a huge and formal affirmative action policy for women for positions appointed by his administration, in addition to other notable civil rights firsts.

Hell, I bet very few people know that Nixon was instrumental in urging LBJ to sign the Civil Rights Act into law; LBJ was strongly considering vetoing it, and Nixon (among others) talked him out of it.

You know, Nixon. The racist homophobic paranoid misanthropic criminal. That guy. He did those things.

Unironically, he was one of the best, and absolute worst, presidents we have ever had.

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Tai-Pan t1_jdttfgd wrote

A few years ago I used to work for the National Park Service in San Francisco. I was teaching a lesson with a visiting boy scout troop on the coast when a seagull jumped on the back of a pigeon scavenging on the beach, the seagull then proceeded to rip into the living pigeon by pecking into its back. Many scouts started crying asking if there was something we could do to save the pigeon, all I could do was shrug and say "It's the circle of life." Inwardly I was pretty shocked at how savage seagulls can be. They don't fuck around.

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