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Garibaldee@lemm.ee to unions@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Union Workers Like Me

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Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Union Workers Like Me

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Garibaldee@lemm.ee to unions@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago
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As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, like millions of my union sisters and brothers, I felt betrayed.
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    A neoliberal and a war criminal.

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      Hmm… how about I throw some links at you as well, to make your point

      On Brzezinski, the national security advisor https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/05/john-helmer-zbigniew-brzezinski-svengali-jimmy-carters-presidency-dead-evil-lives.html

      Foreign policy

      https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2020/11/19/jimmy-carter-is-a-saint-now-was-a-war-criminal-then/

      East Timor genocide funding https://web.archive.org/web/20170226181104/https://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indoarms.html

      Wow, and to think he’s one of the least bloodiest presidents…

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        We’re still living in Brzezinski’s shadow today in Ukraine. This is the proxy war he would have wanted, with the goal of collapsing the Russian state and balkanizing Russia. Weaponizing Europe, Countering Eurasia: Mackinder, Brzezinski, Nuland and the Road to the Ukraine War

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      Seriously, people look at these guys like they’re perfect shining examples of world leaders because the last presidents were so horrifically bad. I am not going to pretend that these assholes aren’t still huge pieces of shit because they did CONTROVERSIAL THINGS like stopping supporting Pinochet…. THAT SHOULD BE A NO BRAINER WTF WERE YOU GUYS SUPPORTING HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE? Like I feel like I’m losing my mind here. These are not good fucking people. Some people being worse does not make something else good.

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      is there a president that didn’t commit war crimes?

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        I’m pretty sure that the President of my University never committed war crimes…

        Oh you mean those presidents…

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          Even university presidents can’t exactly meet this standard, mine pushed anti-Palestine and censored pro-Palestine rhetoric, arrested 20 protestors, fired the head of the student newspaper after they criticized the arrests, and kept inviting weapons manufacturer representatives on campus and probably had investments in them too.

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        …of the USA? Not in my lifetime.

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          Not in any lifetime. Even the dude who was president for a month and died still got to the office over the dead bodies of Natives.

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