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   Dan Lynch (methoddan@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 17:49:44 JST Dan Lynch

   I posted on my blog about Jimmy Carter. Hoping to post more in 2025 but don't hold me to that - https://www.danlynch.org/blog/2025/01/rip-jimmy-carter/

   #music #creativecommons #JimmyCarter #presidentcarter

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     Dan Lynch (methoddan@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 17:49:52 JST Dan Lynch

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     • Adrian McEwen

     @amcewen Sounds like the opening line of a song or something 😁

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     Adrian McEwen (amcewen@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 17:49:53 JST Adrian McEwen

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     @methoddan I heard somewhere that he was a peanut farmer

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     dick_turpin (dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 17:50:00 JST dick_turpin

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     @methoddan And it was only a short while ago I was telling you to dig your song out for his birthday.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 17:52:10 JST clacke

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     "Regardless of your political leanings, you cannot deny that we lost a good guy and positive influence on the world."

     @methoddan I have seen many people online absolutely deny that.

     Thank you for your work, Mr. Carter. You were an inspiration, and I hope one day your country will be mature enough that most people will see that. 😐

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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 22:00:38 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • clacke
     @clacke @methoddan
     
     > I have seen many people online absolutely deny that.
     
     I don't understand that at all. He was a good person and a positive influence before I first heard of him (1976, during the campaign).
     
     > Thank you for your work, Mr. Carter. You were an inspiration, and I hope one day your country will be mature enough that most people will see that.
     
     I think most older people in the US know this already. If they don't, they certainly should.
     
     Mr Carter wasn't in the public eye as much as he got older, so maybe some younger people don't know it. I still remember being surprised to learn that Carter, a former US President, was nailing together houses for poor people with Habitat for Humanity ... something that to my knowledge, no other former President has done.
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     Dan Lynch (methoddan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 04:40:25 JST Dan Lynch

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     • clacke

     @clacke You are quite right that a lot of people disagree with me.

     Back 15 years ago when l wrote the song l actually got angry emails saying things like "thanks for not mentioning he was the worst president we ever had!!!".

     Those people have gone strangely quiet lately (shrug)

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 04:56:35 JST clacke

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     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     People who believe that you have to be a bully to be "strong" think that he actively hurt the country by being President.

     He was the first President to not be re-elected in almost a century, the voters would rather have Reagan, and not only was it a pretty clear popular vote win; I had no idea until I looked it up just now, but Reagan had a mind-boggling 10:1 electoral vote ratio.

     Those are the older people, have they re-assessed him as the years went on?

     Of course, not everybody votes. A bit over half of the eligible voters did.

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     @methoddan

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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 08:17:56 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke I think people who don't think he was a great President can still recognize him as a very good person.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 12:58:28 JST clacke

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     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw37j1 I'd hope so. I'm not so sure, especially in today's political climate.
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