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liberals the moment they meet people who actually support the cause they're performatively claiming to support: pigmask-off

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[–] voight@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literally so cowardly you can't even support someone after u find out they're resilient

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This libness could probably be diffused with better education on the Vietnam war. As a kid I was indoctrinated into loving the army and such as many Americans are, but I learned on my own how the US lied to get into Vietnam, and about all the regime changes and massacres etc, and from that age around 7 or 8 I viewed everything from that lens, that the US military was actually just a greedy monster.

I think it's hard for people to accept that there really are people within the US' power structure so blood-thirsty that they will gladly allow thousands of Palestinians or whoever to be killed for profit or whatever delusion they have. It's so far from a normal rational way of behaving.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

better education on the Vietnam war

this article is pretty good for that

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/07/what-we-did-in-vietnam