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Don't go to the actual museum in Vietnam, watch the netflix show instead. michael-laugh

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[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 72 points 1 month ago

The Viet Cong were no angels. They killed my grandpa, who was affectionately known as the Kansas Kid Killer. They wiped out his whole unit, the Easterner Exterminators.

Have these Vietmanese people no shame?

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"how evil Americans are, which is not true"

Lmao holy shit what a burgerbrain, they're literally going "nuh uh! Ur wrong šŸ˜­!!"

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago

Don't these commies know we had to destroy that village in order to save it?

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

we have heroically liberated every innocent villager from the authoritarian grip of life! freedom-and-democracy

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

dont they know those ~~concentration camps~~ strategic hamlets were for their own good!

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago

Guys I went to a revolutionary war museum in America and it was nothing but blatant anti-English propaganda! Heavily lacking in nuance, no talk of the bad things Americans did to the crown.

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

Americans CLAIM to respect property but then they went and STOLE the WHOLE COUNTRY from the king! And act like they're the victims!!

[-] regul@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

Great part about this comparison is the self-mythologizing about the Revolutionary War about how our brilliant minutemen were hiding in trees and ambushing British soldiers.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Itā€™s only smart and cunning when we do it

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

A side note but it was immensely funny to me to discover the British call it a civil war instead, lol

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Revolutionary War was really similar in many aspects to 1861-1865, except rebels won, and this is the only reason it isn't usually called a civil war.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago

I have strong feelings about this but they are inexpressabale.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

something like "everyone in this image should be set on fire and thrown into a pit of gasoline" perhaps?

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

No, I'm not really down for punitive killing. But re-education camps? Oh yeah, 100%.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

i feel like those are the sorts of feelings you're totally allowed to express though, unless you just meant "this is so gross i'm at a loss for words"

sorry, i just can't pass up an opportunity to fedpost. got bills to pay!

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

No, whatever they used on the Vietnamese, pls send it back to them in their American hometowns

(Eg. Napalm firebombs, agent orange, white phosphorus, machine gun fire)

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

fair and balanced honestly

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

I aint gonna delete them

[-] miz@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"so many facts and events distorted that I can't even name one!"

[-] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago
[-] miz@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago
[-] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Oh of course we have an emote lmao

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

Sometimes, you gotta pop out and show yankees

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago

In the Netflix series, Ken Burns says the war was ā€begun in good faith by decent people, out of fateful misunderstandingsā€, and aren't both sides to blame, really? A much more balanced view.

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

I thought that documentary made the Americans look like disgusting monsters who kill for fun and it was still too kind to them.

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

very-smart studying liberal theory...

[-] regul@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

When you're a decent NSA agent acting in good faith (by lying) to foment escalation in a war your country has no business participating in anyway.

[-] spacecadet@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago

Most propagandized people on the planet.

I think I'm entering a Joker-ified era and feeling some grotesque glee at seeing these people flail and whine as they are forced to confront the objective evil of the US colonial empire.

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

obama-socialism must be nice to think you live in the superhero nation and there just so happens to be evil villain nations who want to destroy you with their propaganda..

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

You are trapped in the belly of a horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death.

Jokerfication is self care.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

"The Vietnamese don't understand anything that we did to their country, but I, a white westerner afraid to leave my house because of news propaganda designed to manipulate, understand literally everything better than they do. This is why you should do what I say and watch a Netflix show about it instead"

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

Americans are scum of the earth

[-] miz@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

(cw: war crimes of all varieties, crimes against humanity)

Winter Soldier Transcripts

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_03_1Marine.html

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

its communist propaganda

Gonna cry burgerboy

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The people leaving these negative reviews should have a flachette volley dropped over their suburban ranch-style homes.

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago
[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Chuck McGinness, Military Historican & Finance Manager at Gibson's Truck World on Highway 14.

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

which is not true [1]

[1] smuglord

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Yeah I remember when I watched Red Dawn all I could think was this is just American propaganda to slander all the invading Russian/DPRK soldiers as war criminals; Yes I agree some troops committed war crimes in America, but not all those Americans were poor, innocent people. They need to show both sides. Don't bother going over there, just watch the Russian show instead.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

"I was there, My Lai was self defence, those children and women were.... Hamas? Where am I again? Have you seen my... I can't find... I don't- What year is it??" - American boomer, brain disintegrating in real time from a combination of Fox News, Agent Orange, long COVID, leaded gasoline and suppressed guilt.

[-] princeofsin@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Free speech bitch

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

All of the burger-brained reviewers should be thrown in a re-education facility and not let out until they recognize how evil they are.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago
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