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To any younger people here wondering what the propaganda was like during the War on Terror, it was very similar to the shit happening now. Brace yourself. (hexbear.net)

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This is going to suck. Hard. I was just a kid when the War on Terror happened, but what I do remember is that even though tons of people were protesting Bush, calling him Hitler, etc, it did nothing. The imperialism went ahead anyway and the pro-imperialist propaganda machine was just as loud as the protesters.

You're going to feel very alone in a very wild world (if you don't already, its already been pretty wild) because it's going to ramp up.

I beg you to know you aren't alone, stay strong. At least this time, the US isn't at it peak power like it was back then. Maybe we can do something about it, but we're going to have to remember what didn't work last time. We have to learn from the past and adjust.

You aren't alone, and you aren't crazy.

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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

I was in my early 20s for 9/11, the Iraq war in particular was fucking wild as an Aussie. I remember the ABC reporting that something like 70% of Australians opposed our participation in the invasion of Iraq but we went in anyway.

Wonder if we'll be first in line again. What an I saying, of course we fucking will. The Aussie government never saw a brutal imperialist war of aggression it didn't get a massive erection for. If we didn't send soldiers over there to commit war crimes, who would we elect to parliament?!