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    8 months ago

    I will be very sad when he goes. Regardless of his success or lack thereof during his presidency, I don’t know that a better person in general has been president. The man devoted his post-presidency to building houses for the poor (with his own two hands) and eradicating guinea worm… and never showed up to say something on the endless news cycle unless he had a specific point to make.

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      8 months ago

      300,000 people in East Timor certainly didn’t deserve Carter supplying Indonesia with the tools to carry out genocide.

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        It’s very easy to forget why Carter was largely considered a middling President in his time.

        Between his fumbling of the Iran Hostage Crisis, his public sector strike breaking, and his Volcker Shock Economics, he set the stage for Reaganism and the end of Progressive Era politics.

        But then he did Habitat for Humanity which was nice. And he talked a good game on climate change. And he called Israel Apartheid as he saw it decades before any other mainstream politician.

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        Sorry bud, it’s hard to understand what you’re saying with Jinping’s cock all up in your mouth like that

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          Neither of us live in China, and they had nothing to do with the atrocities the US facilitated under Carter (which admittedly, is less than any other recent president), why are you bringing them up?

          He did good things after the presidency, but acknowledging that Israel is an apartheid state fails to make up for excluding Palestine from the Camp David accords.

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            Because that’s where your half-baked talking points are coming from, comrade.

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              Is it really inconceivable that someone could organically not like genocide?

              Any American who acknowledges that every president for the last century has done things we hanged Nazis for at Nuremberg must have been tricked by outside forces?

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                No, that part’s not inconceivable. The inconceivable part is that you claim to not like it while also defending the undisputed kings of it. Mao makes Hitler look like a fucking amateur lol

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    8 months ago

    He was President when I was born, and it will be sad to see such a genuinely decent person depart this Earth. He did so much for so many.

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    He was a truly great person. He didn’t do so well at politics, but that’s because he was such a good person.

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    I find it sad that president from the late 70s showed more care for his constituency and broader world during the cold war than what our current president seems to be actively avoiding during a self funded genocide.

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      One of the consequences of the Cold War was a sense of domestic nationalism that fell apart when the USSR did. No point in working together without a singular globe spanning enemy to work against.

      Ironic that Ayn Rand’s anti-communist philosophical selfishness came out of Soviet Russia in the 40s, and that’s what will likely bring the American Experiment to an end.

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    You’ve given it your all. More than most can say. And, you’ve done it while taking it on the chin the whole time from lesser people and politicians. You are/were a great man!

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    He is truly a wonderful and selfless person. I can think of way worse people much easier than I can think of truly great people. He’s up there with Fred Rogers in my book. Jimmy, thank you for you service, bless you and your family. I hope there is no pain. 🫂💐

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      What benefit are we getting with him dying? Like why do you sound like he deserves it?

      about fucking time.

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        unfortunately that’s the problem i think. I did word it pretty shitty though, i just didn’t care to reword it lmao.

        It bothers me that the one example of a politican that everybody seems to love is jimmy carter. Incredible guy, but it’s fucking depressing to think that there isn’t anybody else like him at the moment. I’m sure there will be in the future, but this dude really seems to be one in a million right now.