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@anemone they should do one of these with a black guy
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@anemone why does america remember vietnam way more than korea or gwot? how about the one conflict we got into where we were GENUINELY TRYING TO DO GOOD (Operation Gothic Serpent, Somalia)
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@creamqueen@clubcyberia.co think its a combination of it being the last war w/ a draft and also vietnam vets being attention seeking boomers
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@creamqueen @anemone because Vietnam drafted and created an entire generation of extremely traumatized weirdos
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@technolyze@whinge.town @creamqueen@clubcyberia.co one of my uncles is a vietnam vet and he still can't acknowledge how evil it was. he can only think about his own suffering
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@anemone @creamqueen the war itself or did he personally napalm toddlers
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@technolyze@whinge.town @creamqueen@clubcyberia.co he wasn't shooting napalm but I suspect he probably did shoot at civillians given how common it was.
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@anemone It's crazy that people who were old enough to be sentient, even fight, during the civil war lived to see nuclear weapons, rockets, and jet airplanes

I think about this picture a lot
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@scathach@stereophonic.space yeah, an absolutely insane amount of technological development during that time period
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@scathach @anemone

"This could have really helped with those damn yankees!"

It's never too late to nuke NYC
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@anemone We're probably going to see an equal amount of change in our lifetimes, but in the opposite direction
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@anemone We were born at the height of American civilization and everything just gets worse with each passing year
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