Check out my latest painting of the bricked-up archway next to the Christchurch Mansion. The arch is made from odd-shaped blocks of stone, which suggests it was either made from waste blocks from the older priory. #ChristchurchMansion#ipswich#painting#archway#Suffolk
@DanielPriestley@garyseconomics "Trickle-down economics" is the controversial theory that tax breaks and financial benefits for the wealthy and corporations will naturally result in wealth trickling down to the working class and boosting the wider economy. This is fundamentally a myth."
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.
@SiamKidd Psychological projection is an unconscious defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses onto someone else, often to manage anxiety or protect self-esteem.
@SiamKidd Your over arching strategy was that your bullish BTC and as a trader your skill is to outperform BTC by investing in Alts. All you predictions were in service of this goal and so this is the metric by which your perfromance should be evaluated. 2026 bull?! lets see...