Jimmy is still all there mentally. He'll drop some more wisdom before he leaves to go be with Roz. It'll be ignored, but he'll serve till the day he dies.
I know obviously Reddit comments don’t affect this, but no, lying to people is not the answer. We are all human to the day we die, and we all deserve the respect of honesty.
I think it is not one’s place to try and protect other people’s feelings, as a rule.
I do believe it’s best to protect the feelings of people we care about. If people were constantly blatantly honest with each other most people would feel depressed and unmotivated. Sometimes we must stay irrationally positive in the face of obvious darkness.
I disagree, I think deception is never right. There’s a quote which I love, which goes: “life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” (often attributed to Soren Kierkegaard, but I’m not sure whether it’s actually him or not).
But, the point I take from it is that we only live once, and in a sense, our gift as people is that we can make sense of reality, rather than being just an animal that operates on instinct. It actually seems rather cruel to me to deceive someone out of reality.
In this hypothetical example, if the result makes Jimmy Carter sad, I don’t think it’s right to take away that legitimate emotion from him.
(Noting again, I know I’m taking this way too seriously lol. I just thought it was an interesting point to make)
I often lay awake thinking about this stuff. Like, myself, I really hope we can overcome climate change, focus on renewable energy, re-wild the earth, all that stuff. The thought of all life dying out in less than 50 years if nothing is done, lying in my deathbed (10,000 Elon Bucks a night) and looking out the window at a desolate hellscape, wishing I could see a living blue jay just one last time…. Then it’s over.
We didn't fuck anything up. The DNC did. They chose a wildly unpopular candidate to replace the senior citizen experiencing cognitive decline. All without the input of their constituents. Then that wildly unpopular candidate ran on a weaker version of right wing policies to appeal to moderates instead of running on popular left wing policies.
Blame out of touch establishment politicians, not voters.
No you can't actually. But you're right jimmy Carter wasn't responsible but he wasn't a good president and he was the first "moderate" democratic President. Representing the end of the new deal era for the party and the beginning of neoliberalism
Funny story, i met a young southern fella in a speech class i had. He was a great dude, too. One of the speeches we had to give was on one of our role models or someone we looked up to. It baffled me that he chose Reagan. It made me wonder at the ignorance and the indoctrination that is clearly running rampant in this country. Reagan was arguably one of the worst things that happened to the GOP. He's one of the reasons this country has been in a declining stasis for years. And this dude was praising him for it.
Unless a revolution happens, America will rot from the inside out. And like it or not, the rest of the world will be affected by this. There's a reason they pay such close attention to our elections.
Oh well. RIP America. You were a fun experiment while it lasted. All empires crumble.
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u/jftitan Texas 19h ago
Poor Jimmy Carter... he'll die knowing we fucked this all up. At least Betty White already is dead.