• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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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            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