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“We’ve Become Now an Oligarchy Instead of a Democracy” - President Jimmy Carter (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Says a president who opposed a minimum wage increase AND increased spending on the social safety net.

Reminds me of the president who preached about the Military Industrial Complex after overseeing a historic expansion of the American nuclear arsenal.

Hypocrites.

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

Then why did he sign the bill raising the minimum wage in 1977?

One thing Carter was not, was a hypocrite. How good or bad a job he did as a president can certainly be argued about, but as a person he was honest and sincerely cared about the human rights of all people in the world. It may seem unbelievable today that we ever had a non-selfish president, but he was one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

sincerely cared about the human rights of all people in the world.

Unless you were in East Timor, or El Salvador, or Cambodia, or Palestine... etc. etc. etc.

The man was a hypocrite, but I'll give him this much, he knew it and at least tried to atone. Like every neoliberal, people just ignore his blood-soaked hands because he had a friendly persona.

Minimum Wage vote

I appreciate the correction. Sometimes I'm mistaken. It happens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That’s certainly one way to look at it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

AND increased spending on the social safety net

You mean that thing real societies have because they're societies that take care of one another and not a bunch of disposable, capital battery rugged individuals competing against one another for oligarch scraps?

Man, for profit media is a hell of an Orwellian nightmare. Imagine being upset about being taxed so that if something catastrophic happens in your life you don't end up in a cardboard box under a freeway dying of exposure.

Fucking surreal. Why be society when we can be a bunch of temporarily embarrassed millionaires?