Vincent Price Trivia.
When his daughter Victoria came out as a lesbian, Vincent Price was immediately supportive. He became an honorary board member of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and was a vocal ally for LGBTQ+ causes. Later in life, he openly shared with her that he was bisexual.
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.
@taste_of_tbone I had a bad stomach bug the other day and had a come to Jesus moment where I just ordered a bunch of vegetables with no rhyme or reason so it's about to be experimental soup season
A great way to tell who is going to start calling the concentration camps "detention centers" after a democrat is in office again and they're all still operational is to find people who say shit like "Cankles McTaco Tits"
Happy birthday @TitusAndronicus and happy 10 year anniversary to TMLT. Never forget the time they used Funny Feeling as incidental music on NPR while reading the news
@crulge I think it's incredibly important to lay into the Democratic party as hard as possible because everyone who cares understands the Republicans to be fascist and largely unreachable. At this point it just feels like beating a dead horse to point out hypocrisy from Trump.