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Jimmy looked so decrepit that I think the more joyously hateful outcome would have been for him to just keep on living for as long as possible. Dude was just waking up every day in a pile of his own shit while being constantly rotated through invasive medical procedures all in a mental haze of complete confusion. Still getting wheeled out for photo ops while the handlers refuse to let you just fucking die.
Could just as easily become Biden's fate. He's about 90% of the way there.
He looked worse than Ramses II looks nowadays and the latter is dead for over 3000 years
i don't think anyone even cares that he kicked the bucket, haven't heard a peep from any leftist space. it's mainly liberals from my brief accidental glance at reddit the other day.
I don't see a reason why anybody should care at all, except for maybe his family and close friends. Dude's been practically dead for a while now.
It's hard to have an opinion. He ran the global industrial murder machine, but he was arguably the nicest guy who ever ran the murder machine. So, whatever, I guess
Jimmy pardoned draft dodgers, Joe gave clemency to a judge that was taking bribes to send children to prison.
Jimmy fought to end segregation, Joe fought to keep it.
He's still a lib, but he's one of the best libs in recent times
Yeah, this sounds too electoralist
Lemme tell you this though, he seemed to change his tune and did the following post-presidency:
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Praised China's rise to power
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Negiotitated with DPRK to rid its nukes, and condemned the U.S sanctions on it
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Praised Venezuela's electoral system
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Declared the settler-colonial entity that took over Falastin, an apartheid state
https://www.wabe.org/president-trump-calls-president-carter-to-talk-china/
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/22/when-jimmy-carter-went-to-north-korea/
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7272/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid
Then again, some pessimist might have point out, during his presidency, his support and alignment with reactionary anti-communist gov't and forces in the cold war in the following (some of which Reagan expanded upon and was known for) :
Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo - backed the dictator Mobutu
Guatemala - backed the Mayan anti-gov't genociders, around 200k dead
East Timor - backed the East Timor genocide over, over 200k dead (his little pet project) https://web.archive.org/web/20170226181104/https://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indoarms.html
Unfortunately, despite its professions of support for human rights in Indonesia, the Carter Administration picked up where Kissinger and Ford had left off. As Noam Chomsky writes in the preface to Matthew Jardine's 1995 book, East Timor: Genocide in Paradise, "In 1977, Indonesia found itself short of weapons, an indication of the scale of its attack. The Carter administration accelerated the arms flow."[7] U.S. arms sales hit $112 million in 1978, and averaged nearly $60 million per year for the four years of the Carter administration -- this was more than twice the level of weaponry supplied to the Suharto regime by the Ford Administration.
Angola - backed the anti-communist civil war there, along with apartheid South Africa, that caused 1 million deaths
Afghanistan - started Operation Cyclone
In the West, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan. These concerns led Carter to expand collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which had begun in July 1979, when the CIA started providing $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen.
El Salvador - supported anti-communist death squads, including the ones that killed Jesuits there
Vietnam - refused to recognize and continued the sanctions on Vietnam post-war (he was supposed to give reparations)
Nicaragua - supported the Somoza clique and started to back of the Contras that followed
Cambodia - post-Khmer Rouge, he supported China and Khmer Rouge + anti-communist elements against the Vietnam-aligned People's Republic of Kampuchea
South Korea - supported Chun Doo Hwan, in a line of SK strongmen, responsible for the Gwangju massacre
Philippines - supported dictator Marcos
Middle East - expanded bases there, as part of the 800 in our global world
In addition, he:
Supported the destabilisation of Grenada after the election of a socialist government leading to the eventual invasion and occupation by his successor’s administration
Facilitated and supported a fascist coup in Liberia
All along with Zbigniew Brzezinski https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/05/john-helmer-zbigniew-brzezinski-svengali-jimmy-carters-presidency-dead-evil-lives.html
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy-2/
https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2020/11/19/jimmy-carter-is-a-saint-now-was-a-war-criminal-then/
Plus his start of neoliberalism and destruction of Unions (wow, talk about Dems starting, and Reps expanding it)
https://truthout.org/articles/neoliberal-policies-associated-with-reaganomics-actually-started-with-carter/
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-was-no-friend-of-union-workers-like-me/
but judging mainly by domestic policies? That's kinda a lib symptom of electoralism but I'll put it aside (I assume both of us don't want to argue?)
It's a joke not an essay. I just read something about Carter and it mentioned the pardon and anti-segregation, which I thought was funny in juxtaposition to the modern democratic prez. I don't want to argue, but you keep calling me a fucking lib so it's hard not to?
it mentioned the pardon and anti-segregation, which I thought was funny in juxtaposition to the modern democratic prez
you keep calling me a fucking lib so it's hard not to?
I apologize, I retract my statement of calling you lib... I just think these policies should be bare minimum, but I see what you mean, from your POV
(I empathize with you, I remembered trying to bring up a little good about Carter, post-presidency foreign policy-wise, and this user burgerpunk kept on mocking me for it)
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