Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoUSA’s presidents have all been awful humanslemmy.mlimagemessage-square259linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoThat’s four of them. I rather think Carter was a good human being, regardless of whether or not you think he was a good president.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI can’t really agree with that given how he treated Cambodia and supported the Khmer Rouge, as well as other crimes against humanity in the name of “opposing Communism.”
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoYeah but if you ignore some of the most heinous atrocities ever perpetrated he’s a nice guy
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoGeorge W. Bush’s treatment by the media in recent years in a nutshell. Thank goodness for Blowback reminding people of his atrocities.
minus-squareTacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoIt’s sad how lacking of recent historical context people have. They always point to Carter and it’s like… frustrating.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoAbsolutely, the media machine does a great job of “cleansing the records” on US figures.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoOther than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
That’s four of them. I rather think Carter was a good human being, regardless of whether or not you think he was a good president.
I can’t really agree with that given how he treated Cambodia and supported the Khmer Rouge, as well as other crimes against humanity in the name of “opposing Communism.”
Yeah but if you ignore some of the most heinous atrocities ever perpetrated he’s a nice guy
George W. Bush’s treatment by the media in recent years in a nutshell. Thank goodness for Blowback reminding people of his atrocities.
It’s sad how lacking of recent historical context people have. They always point to Carter and it’s like… frustrating.
Absolutely, the media machine does a great job of “cleansing the records” on US figures.
Read “The Jakarta Method”
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?