Yes, what absolute gall he must have to criticize a system which he personally failed to reform given the opportunity he had during… (checks notes) one term in office over 40 years ago! He’ll be the first one sent to feel the embrace of medame guillotine!
He was literally the president. This is like Eisenhower warning people about the military industrial complex. Carter’s public image as a humble peanut farmer turned president is just that, an image. Carter fought for “right to work” laws, was hostile to labour organising in his own peanut farm, and began arming what would become the Mujahideen in July 1979, which would then become the Taliban. He helped start the proxy war with the USSR in Afghanistan by arming political Islamic extremists.
As I said, comrade, it’s his fault and it’s clear for everyone to see that he’s a dirty hypocrite liar for trying to imply otherwise. Very terrible president, just like Eisenhower.
You have literally no argument nor basis for your beliefs except for incredulity at their antithesis.
The Carter administration is responsible for helping start one of the most devastating proxy wars in recent history, by arming anti Soviet extremists in Afghanistan in July 1979. Whatever happened to those extremists, one might wonder?
During that one term, he managed to pass a law that took away federal employees’ right to strike. Reagan later used this law to fire something like 10,000 air traffic controllers for going on strike. What he managed to do during that one term was deal a massive, if not fatal, blow to organized labor in the US.
Hey, thanks for educating me. I wasn’t alive during the 70s and, frankly, not once in my entire life has anyone even thought to have a serious conversation with me about Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Now that I know, I know. President Carter really ought to have vetoed that anti-labor legislation!
He was literally the first neoliberal President, and again he was the fucking President! There is a dearth of evidence that he gave a shit about fighting plutocracy from his time in office, especially since his policies tended towards austerity! Maybe if he actually stood for something beyond the will of the ruling class, he would have had a chance at being re-elected.
mate, I know his legacy has been thoroughly whitewashed by the media but seriously, look up what happened in East Timor, Nicaragua, Iran, and Afghanistan and I’m definitely forgetting some coups/counterrevolutions. there’s plenty of blood on his hands. there are exactly zero US presidents who haven’t conducted or allowed genocide. you don’t get to be emperor then clutch pearls at the awful shit people are doing, following in your footsteps.
That’s a good one! Does Hexbear have a guillotine emoji? Who am I kidding… there must be at least 3 I can choose from, right?
I am super gringe in person, Melina. You’re probably better off pretending a person like me doesn’t even exist. Even so, I still hope we two can get along.