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[–] [email protected] 205 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tomorrow, they can still keep posting "no".

[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 days ago

Look at you being the best kind of correct.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 days ago (1 children)

how is this how i find out?? fml

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

same, but I don’t use mainstream news, so it makes sense. also, damn now I’m sad

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Carter was the first neoliberal president. You can disagree with that statement but it just means you don't know what the term means.

As the best of the bunch, the only one who actually seemed to believe you need to do good things in private to balance out your destruction of the social safety net and that the corruption wasn't the point in itself, it might be a little sad that he saw its inevitable conclusion when he was too old and sick to change his mind and do something about it but it's still a fitting legacy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yup. He was a spoiler personable economic right wing candidate who won despite the party not favoring him. They feared he would be weak in the general, but couldn't stop him from winning the primary. He clashed heavily with the establishment who were MORE left wing than him. Of course, he was still too nice to satisfy conservatives, so Reagan defeated him in a landslide.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Why would they post at 7 AM? Shouldn’t they always post at like 11:59 PM?

Edit: Okay smartasses. Why would they post at 7 AM EST (often used as the default time zone in the US, and also the latest time zone so other US time zones would only be worse)?

[–] iAmTheTot 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

7am anywhere on earth is midnight somewhere else.

[–] themoonisacheese 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Isn't there some weird ahh timezones that are 45 minutes apart and technically 7 AM there is midnight nowhere?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You can say ass here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Nepal is at +5:45.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seme parte of america are in the - 7 timezone so if it was posted there and seen in the UK, it all fits.

[–] themoonisacheese 4 points 3 days ago

Yes, but my point is that there exist timezones when 7am is midnight nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

That’s the time corrected for the timezone of the person who took the screenshot.

[–] brbposting 4 points 4 days ago

Well even then the news might take a bit to break so “did Jimmy Carter die yesterday?“ at 11:59p makes sense but the name gets a little long

[–] brbposting 2 points 4 days ago

Oh yeah and engagement

Gotta optimize for your demo of course :|

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 days ago

You had one job.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I guess there could have been worse ways to find out 🤷