post historical figures that genuinely meant to do good but

does oda nobunaga count?
He really tried to unite the japanese mainland and end the sengoku jidai, in the most bloody way possible, and almost managed to do it, but then got assasinated and everything he build up just crumbled back into its old state

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>>529128
>I mean real tragic figures of history
so... hitler?

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>>529156

>>529128
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8H7Jibx-c0
Oppenheimer certainly leaps to mind. Dude just wanted to make science and maybe invent a new power source. Instead he ushered in the advent of a weapon that has the potential to destroy all of human society. I suppose we still got the power source, but that's a hell of a price to pay.

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He struggled valiantly. But it was already too late.

>>529175
>except he ushered in an era with no more World Wars and prosperity for more of mankind than ever before seen in history

Ftfy

>>529364
>implying I didn't mention the power source and the scientific advances that came with them
>implying we haven't been in world war 3 since the cold war began.
The whole world has been tearing itself apart for the last 3 decades bro, it's just not as blatant as in the 40s.

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Oswald Mosley, young Conservative, and later Labour (socialist) member of parliament, resigned from the govemrnet' after they rejected his programme for economic recovery (which would go on to be the basis of the New Deal and the Labour government in post-war Britain), spent a year touring Europe, got caught up in the grandiose of Mussolini's fascist movement, returned home to found the British Union of Fascists, alienating his former supporters, alienating the public with their Blackshirt uniforms, and slowly losing control of his own party to fifth columnist Nazi sympathisers

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Good is subjective though, every Historical figure probably fought they meant to do good in some way

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Pauvre Maximilien Robespierre...

>>530126
>I'm glad it's over

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>>529128
He just wanted everyone to get along

>>529519
I have no idea who that is

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>>529128
>Could have defeated the Sith once and for all
>Went off half-cocked, became accidental darksider for "vengeance reasons"
>Killed brother in a rage, immediately realizes his fuckup, but is stripped of the Force by his probable lover anyways
>Trains his probable lover's daughter in the ways of the Jedi as if she were his own, redeeming himself and learning to love again in the process
>Shot through the heart by a salty old spacer for his trouble

How can non-Force sensitives even compete?

>>529534
/thread

Vlad III, hero of the people

>>529128
Nappy almost had it all. He almost ended the tyrannies of the old governments. Almost.

It hurts reading about him knowing how gloriously it all fails.

>>529151
No it didn't. Hideyoshi used most of what Nobunaga had established and went about accomplishing his goal.

He had to deal with a few naysayers like Katsuie Shibata but it didn't all fall apart as soon as Nobunaga died.

Nobunaga laid the foundation for the Toyotomi and the Tokugawa.

>>530587
edward mosely
British fascist.

Did nothing of note other than get his marches beat back by old jewish women with pots of boiling water.

>>529531
Saddam and all the leaders deposed by the Arab Spring belong in this thread. The only country that didn't go to absolute shit is Tunis but even they are having problems with terrorists.

>>530587
Heidegger

>>531175
>>531142
>>530126
Definition of tragic heroes, one and all.

>>529128

Wait, since when did Uncle Adolf become a "/pol/ meme" you ignorant asshole?

>>529175
I'm going to science the shit out of this! xD

t. Oppenheimer

>>529534
didn't exactly backfire, he was just snubbed