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[-] Snorf@reddthat.com 56 points 1 year ago

I don't understand how anyone could've learned about citizens united and thought it wouldn't end this way.

[-] Fifteen_Two@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

I am from Canada. I still remember my social studies teacher bringing up Citizens United and asking us all what we thought about it. I still think about our naive answers years later lol.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

they knew exactly how it would end, thats why they did it

[-] torknorggren@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I love that Jimmy's still out here as a presidential Yoda dropping knowledge bombs at 99.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean this is an old article (2015) but up until 7 mo ago when he entered hospice care he was continuing to do good left and right it seems like.

I feel like he is one of the few politicians that wasn't a corrupt asshole. We need more like that at all levels of government to walk back all the corruption. Hard to get a critical mass of non corrupt jerks though. The greedy sociopaths are drawn to political office like moths to flame.

PS: happy bday JC

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4233246-jimmy-carter-turns-99-as-tributes-roll-in/

[-] library_napper@monyet.cc 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago
[-] library_napper@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure but this is a news community. This link is objectively not news

[-] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That doesn’t make it less true.

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Jimmy Carter criticizing the evil system he helped create:

im-doing-my-part

[-] Franzia 2 points 1 year ago

I must imagine he tried. Its tempting to pretend he's perfect.

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's tempting to pretend he tried

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

No shit Sherlock. Thanks Citizens United! Legalized bribery and made corporations into legal persons.

[-] TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 1 year ago

... He's still alive?

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