@Parodyjeffx Also i highly recommend the DOCUMENTARY •Hypernormalization• its avail free on YouTube; talks about when the banks started buying politicians & shit 😭 ...& also Raoul Peck's •Exterminate All of the Brutes• is on HBO, it's a heavy watch but sooo well presented!!
@Parodyjeffx Ah,YES!💯 nice 2know we're not alone in these intense realizations! (I knew twas comin, but not @ this rate)!🤯 Thx 4 sharin as u so eloquently articulated the thoughts of many & its reassuring! 🤍 It's like `existence` itself is a psyop😠 Ugh! Stay safe& strong commrades!🫂🫂
There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this:
Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians.
They came home broken and unappreciated.
It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned.
Notice what that story does.
It centers Americans.
Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings.
In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop.
A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction.
Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery.
They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam.
The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill.
Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll.
They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story.
They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character.
And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing.
Where is the wall for our three million?
There isn't one.
Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.
@IranBaseNews I'm down! Persian folks are some of the *realest*, not to mention y'all gorgeous 😍 I'd love to learn more about the history of the land, I bet it's beautiful!
@CoinSurveyor@MidwesternMarx It'll happen after swallowing too much imperialist propaganda, you can't fight Imperialism from within their definitions, it's time to listen to poor/oppressed leaders if you want things to get better
@HoySeBebe@MidwesternMarx I wonder who decided that the Florida Venezuelan gathering is to be at a Chevron?! 😬 is it symbolic of their natural resources or is it a literal advertisement for a company that'll profit from your country?
@khrachvik I swear MWM gets the dumbest of the interwebs all up in the comments! 😬 tbh idk how y'all maintain your patience?! 😇 Thanks for all that you do - it's appreciated!