• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Carter was almost certainly America’s most tech-savvy president. He received some training in nuclear engineering just before leaving the Navy - although he wasn’t a nuclear engineer and never served aboard a nuclear sub - two common myths. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t a climate change denier or an anti-vaxxer, and that he never thought the Internet was “a series of tubes” (Ted Stevens, R-Alaska), or that rape victims don’t need abortions because, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” (Todd Akin, R-Missouri).

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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        14 hours ago

        Don’t sleep on Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) who was worried that putting too much American military on Guam might make the island “tip over”.