Franklin D. Roosevelt: Shitbird Score 48

Ethical & Moral Breakdown:
FDR is celebrated as the man who saved capitalism and crushed fascism — but beneath the marble busts lies a legacy of racial injustice, state-sanctioned imprisonment, and culpable inaction. The New Deal was built on white supremacy: Black workers were excluded from Social Security, denied union protections, and redlined into generational poverty.

His refusal to lift or even fill existing immigration quotas for Jews fleeing the Holocaust condemned tens of thousands to Nazi death camps — roughly 190,000 quota slots went deliberately unfilled between 1933 and 1945 while the State Department actively obstructed visas. The MS St. Louis, carrying over 900 Jewish refugees, was turned away in 1939; a quarter of its passengers later perished in Europe. Internally, Executive Order 9066 authorized the mass incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans — U.S. citizens — stripped of rights, property, and dignity based solely on ancestry; roughly 1,900 died in the camps.

And then there's the Manhattan Project: authorized with no public knowledge, no congressional debate, and no ethical review, unleashing the arms race his successors would wield. FDR built the framework of American empire — intelligence, surveillance, and atomic infrastructure — while preaching liberty.

Key Policies & Their Toll:

• Refugee denial during the Holocaust — ~190,000 unfilled quota slots plus maritime rejection; counted at the enabling tier (50%): ~100,000 avoidable deaths
• Japanese internment camps (EO 9066) — 120,000 detained without due process; ~1,900 deaths in custody (direct)
• Colonial repression in the Philippines — U.S. suppression of Filipino resistance movements
• Greenlighting the Manhattan Project — no public debate, no ethical oversight; scored as ethics, not bodies
• New Deal racial exclusions — structural harm to Black and Indigenous Americans; scored as ethics, not speculative body count

Toll Assessment:

• Avoidable Deaths: ~105,000 (revised down from an earlier unsourced 2.2M — this ledger only counts what it can itemize)
• Unavoidable Deaths (WWII): ~4,000,000 globally involving U.S. forces — not included in score

Shitbird Score Breakdown:

• Base Score (avoidable death toll): 41
• Ethics Penalty: +7 (racial internment, refugee rejection, nuclear project without consent)
• Final Shitbird Score: 48

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
Unless you were a refugee, a Japanese-American citizen, or anyone outside the white New Deal umbrella — then you had the U.S. government to fear.