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[–] [email protected] 100 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup,. the hypocrisy is so thick you can taste it, and it's bitter with a strong hint of propaganda. the world is lead by assholes, on all sides.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the world is lead by assholes, on all sides.

This is an objectively true statement. Of course the world is lead by assholes.

We all know that power corrupts. Neuroscience has shown that getting power damages the brain's capacity for empathy.

You just can't lead a nation without becoming capable of great evil.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You just can’t lead a nation without becoming capable of great evil.

Jimmy Carter seems like a decent person.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If those are the worst examples you can come up with the man was basically a saint. What a bullshit hit piece. I am now dumber for having read it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So he has blood on his hands for not getting involved and for getting involved when both sides are likely to commit atrocities.

What a ridiculous bar to set.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The first example was Zaire, so if you don't even know what you are linking I'm not going to go through it line by line.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy/

William Blum writes in Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II that Carter, who had been in office for only two months, was reluctant to involve his administration in a far-reaching intervention whose scope and length could not be easily anticipated.

However, Carter did provide “non-lethal” aid, while he did not protest as European countries offered military aid, and Morocco sent several thousand of its US-trained military forces to aid Mobutu.

“President Carter asserted on more than one occasion that the Zaire crisis was an African problem, best solved by Africans, yet he apparently saw no contradiction to this thesis in his own policy, nor did he offer any criticism of France or Belgium, or of China, which sent Mobutu a substantial amount of military equipment,” writes Blum. [1]

He didn't criticize, what an absolute bloodthirsty monster!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh look, you edited your first post with a snide remark!

What are you talking about? Please be specific. All I’m getting are vague “nuh-uh” answers. If you want to actually convince anyone that you have a point, you need to make it.

The ~~first charge~~ (edit: it was the third charge, I do apologise for expecting anyone to read more than a few paragraphs),

Then you offer an 'apology' for getting a detail wrong...

I apologise for getting a minor detail wrong about the order of items in the list, I underestimated how critically important the order of items in that list was to you.

I do not accept your apology.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

pee pee poo poo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup. One of the very few who had the capability and likely didn't use it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Which of course led to him being single term because he wasn't ruthless enough for a voting public that would rather have a former actor run the country into the ground while paying loveable grandpa to hide the evil.

But that wasn't because he couldn't lead the country, just that the public loves to fall for confident blowhards that tell them what they want to hear.