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https://xcancel.com/ZLevyMD/status/1873925592242115036

Brits generally when speaking any language other than English:

Funnily enough, he could've fit with our posters

1. Praised China's rise to power

2. Negiotitated with DPRK to rid its nukes, and condemned the U.S sanctions on it

3. Praised Venezuela's electoral system

4. Declared the settler-colonial entity that took over Falastin, an apartheid state

https://www.wabe.org/president-trump-calls-president-carter-to-talk-china/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/22/when-jimmy-carter-went-to-north-korea/

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7272/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid

Then again, some pessimist might have point out, during his presidency, his support and alignment with reactionary anti-communist gov't and forces in the cold war in the following (some of which Reagan expanded upon and was known for) :

Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo - backed the dictator Mobutu

Guatemala - backed the Mayan anti-gov't genociders, around 200k dead

East Timor - backed the East Timor genocide over, over 200k dead (his little pet project) https://web.archive.org/web/20170226181104/https://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indoarms.html

Unfortunately, despite its professions of support for human rights in Indonesia, the Carter Administration picked up where Kissinger and Ford had left off. As Noam Chomsky writes in the preface to Matthew Jardine's 1995 book, East Timor: Genocide in Paradise, "In 1977, Indonesia found itself short of weapons, an indication of the scale of its attack. The Carter administration accelerated the arms flow."[7] U.S. arms sales hit $112 million in 1978, and averaged nearly $60 million per year for the four years of the Carter administration -- this was more than twice the level of weaponry supplied to the Suharto regime by the Ford Administration.

Angola - backed the anti-communist civil war there, along with apartheid South Africa, that caused 1 million deaths

Afghanistan - started Operation Cyclone

In the West, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan. These concerns led Carter to expand collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which had begun in July 1979, when the CIA started providing $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen.

El Salvador - supported anti-communist death squads, including the ones that killed Jesuits there

Vietnam - refused to recognize and continued the sanctions on Vietnam post-war (he was supposed to give reparations)

Nicaragua - supported the Somoza clique and started to back of the Contras that followed

Cambodia - post-Khmer Rouge, he supported China and Khmer Rouge + anti-communist elements against the Vietnam-aligned People's Republic of Kampuchea

South Korea - supported Chun Doo Hwan, in a line of SK strongmen, responsible for the Gwangju massacre

Philippines - supported dictator Marcos

Middle East - expanded bases there, as part of the 800 in our global world

In addition, he:

Supported the destabilisation of Grenada after the election of a socialist government leading to the eventual invasion and occupation by his successor’s administration

Facilitated and supported a fascist coup in Liberia

All along with Zbigniew Brzezinski https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/05/john-helmer-zbigniew-brzezinski-svengali-jimmy-carters-presidency-dead-evil-lives.html

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

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy-2/

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

Plus his start of neoliberalism and destruction of Unions (wow, talk about Dems starting, and Reps expanding it)

https://truthout.org/articles/neoliberal-policies-associated-with-reaganomics-actually-started-with-carter/

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-was-no-friend-of-union-workers-like-me/

Everything moves so fast nowadays that its easy to forget some of the funny events from the year. I posted the financial columnist getting scammed article recently, that happened in February, seems like a million years ago! Even the Trump assassination attempt barely stuck in my mind. Please share your faves!

Not once, not twice, not thrice, but FOUR FUCKING TIMES IN A ROW has the incumbent right wing government shown its fucking ass and gotten reelected. The same government that has overseen the privatization of the electric grid. We can’t elect the independence party because of CUBA AND BENEZUELA, we would have miraculously become communist overnight (if only there was a just god) but somehow the compradors who’ve been in power for thirty thousand years haven’t managed to upgrade the island’s status from US colony to permanent circus members.

On New Years Eve, virtually the entire island is without power. The gaggle of buffoons that runs this joint, a Canadian energy distribution racket known as LUMA, says it’ll take two days to restore electricity. 2 days LOL HOW CONVENIENT? Just in time for the entirety of New Years festivities!

Am I, along with every person who hasn’t been bitten by right wing bullshit, at the center of some cosmic joke?

It would be so funny if all these newly elected psycholibs taking Ls before they’re even seated actually faced consequences but they won’t because nothing good ever happens. These turbo dicks will be relected in 4 years. Instead of MAGA suddenly seeing the light and stringing up Elon, Vivek, and Trump, they’ll be hanging Indians.

Milei oversaw greater than >50% increase in poverty due to his dog brained libertarian policies and yet he has the highest approval rating of any Argentininian leader in 40 years because ROFL fuck Mestizos or some shit.

Please Xi, or the sentient alien recon team flying over New Jersey, evacuate the humans and living beings in the west that need to be evacuated, but turn the rest of us into a smoldering mess.

https://xcancel.com/kenklippenstein/status/1873870757220278568

May 2025 be a year where the libs are seething, the fash are crying and the reds are laughing.

Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this, please direct me elsewhere if I am in error! I figured who better to help with some facsict trolls than the lovely users at my local Hexbear.
The following is a message from a Los Angeles PSL comrade:
"We have received a recent uptick in hateful comments on our instagram reels from the Amazon strike videos and the previous videos around J20 and our fight back. We have just posted this reel featuring a friend of the party who is undocumented, and we are already seeing personal attacks and wrongful information being spread in the comments.

Please help flood the video with comradeship, optimism and pro-immigrant messages! (And if you feel so inclined to engage with the haters and educate them, that helps us too!)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DENwZy4SWio/ "

Soon all the ai images will be hallucinating traffic lights like how they used to put eyes in everything until everything is just the same image of a car but in lots of different wacky colors and you can't own it and you will be happy

I saw some news item or something on here, just normal stuff.

You Americans have a couple of hours to come up with some cooked take when Something Happens over there before I wake up.

I want to open my phone and see some meme 3 layers of irony deep that makes me go to a normal news website then makes me say, 'this is how I find out?'.

Do better next time, hexbear.

This tagline is psychic damage and re-exposing me to it as a joke is NOT okay.

Matty Iglesias's is my favorite

First a call-out of fatphobia (https://hexbear.net/post/4189552) that ended up proving its point, then the stuff about "he/hims" (https://hexbear.net/post/4187781) ". Apparently a mod got banned!?

I am not very active and I never look at the megathreads, the number of comments in them scare me away from them. Is that where it's happening? I feel confused about what this community is like now.

I, uh, don't really know what my point is. Maybe someone can explain what the state of the site is? Especially on the he/hims thing. Maybe that's the main point of this post.

I feel sad for people that got hurt by this.

Then you search them up and realized they were banned or removed

The sword of Damocles reminds me when, if I ever turn rightist once again, may the Hexbear me dead

No the title is not "I need help" this just reminds me of the nights I'd get blasted and listen to some new song on repeat for an hour at a time or go on a downloading spree of new tunes

wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVq7gBH70WE