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Don't go to the actual museum in Vietnam, watch the netflix show instead. michael-laugh

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[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 84 points 3 months ago

The Viet Cong were no angels. They killed my grandpa, who was affectionately known as the Kansas Kid Killer. They wiped out his whole unit, the Easterner Exterminators.

Have these Vietmanese people no shame?

[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 77 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"how evil Americans are, which is not true"

Lmao holy shit what a burgerbrain, they're literally going "nuh uh! Ur wrong 😭!!"

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Guys I went to a revolutionary war museum in America and it was nothing but blatant anti-English propaganda! Heavily lacking in nuance, no talk of the bad things Americans did to the crown.

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

Americans CLAIM to respect property but then they went and STOLE the WHOLE COUNTRY from the king! And act like they're the victims!!

[–] regul@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Great part about this comparison is the self-mythologizing about the Revolutionary War about how our brilliant minutemen were hiding in trees and ambushing British soldiers.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

It’s only smart and cunning when we do it

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A side note but it was immensely funny to me to discover the British call it a civil war instead, lol

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Also, first casualty of it was a black man. Both literally and metaphorically.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 65 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't these commies know we had to destroy that village in order to save it?

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago

we have heroically liberated every innocent villager from the authoritarian grip of life! freedom-and-democracy

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 60 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have strong feelings about this but they are inexpressabale.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

something like "everyone in this image should be set on fire and thrown into a pit of gasoline" perhaps?

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, I'm not really down for punitive killing. But re-education camps? Oh yeah, 100%.

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[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

I aint gonna delete them

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] miz@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

Oh of course we have an emote lmao

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

Sometimes, you gotta pop out and show yankees

[–] miz@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"so many facts and events distorted that I can't even name one!"

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago (4 children)

In the Netflix series, Ken Burns says the war was ”begun in good faith by decent people, out of fateful misunderstandings”, and aren't both sides to blame, really? A much more balanced view.

[–] hypercracker@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought that documentary made the Americans look like disgusting monsters who kill for fun and it was still too kind to them.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 3 months ago

If only, the documentary left out Agent Orange completely. Regular massacres by US troops received exactly zero mention. But a lot of time was wasted of crying how the war divided the american public, with forder anti-war protesters crying how bad they were to their ghoulish neighbours.

[–] weeen@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago

very-smart studying liberal theory...

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That documentary shit the bed so hard, it was incredible.

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

When you're a decent NSA agent acting in good faith (by lying) to foment escalation in a war your country has no business participating in anyway.

[–] spacecadet@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Most propagandized people on the planet.

I think I'm entering a Joker-ified era and feeling some grotesque glee at seeing these people flail and whine as they are forced to confront the objective evil of the US colonial empire.

[–] weeen@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

obama-socialism must be nice to think you live in the superhero nation and there just so happens to be evil villain nations who want to destroy you with their propaganda..

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

You are trapped in the belly of a horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death.

Jokerfication is self care.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 50 points 3 months ago

"The Vietnamese don't understand anything that we did to their country, but I, a white westerner afraid to leave my house because of news propaganda designed to manipulate, understand literally everything better than they do. This is why you should do what I say and watch a Netflix show about it instead"

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Americans are scum of the earth

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 3 months ago

Don't insult scum.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The people leaving these negative reviews should have a flachette volley dropped over their suburban ranch-style homes.

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago

its communist propaganda

Gonna cry burgerboy

[–] miz@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

(cw: war crimes of all varieties, crimes against humanity)

Winter Soldier Transcripts

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_03_1Marine.html

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I recommend seeing it if you ever get the chance.

It's one of the things that shook the anarchism out of me.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

shook the anarchism out of me.

If you have the time/energy would you mind elaborating? I'm not an anarchist but sometimes I am at a loss for good ways to explain why

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If he expounds too much he risks a ban, but let’s just say the the Vietnamese were an extremely organized and disciplined group who very much relied on authority

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[–] weeen@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (5 children)

https://www.willflyforfood.net/war-remnants-museum-a-grisly-reminder-of-the-vietnam-war-in-ho-chi-minh-city/ here's an article about it

Looking at the man in the cage and the Agent Orange pictures, if you see this and cry 'one sided' you have no soul.

Maybe if they put pictures of the soldiers who accidentally AO'd themselves instead of civillian families it'd be less biased thinkin-lenin

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] weeen@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

The occidental does not value human life.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

Operating the poison machine has got to be one of the shittiest jobs in the world. (Still better than being the one it's used on)

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago
[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

Chuck McGinness, Military Historican & Finance Manager at Gibson's Truck World on Highway 14.

which is not true [1]

[1] smuglord

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

Yeah I remember when I watched Red Dawn all I could think was this is just American propaganda to slander all the invading Russian/DPRK soldiers as war criminals; Yes I agree some troops committed war crimes in America, but not all those Americans were poor, innocent people. They need to show both sides. Don't bother going over there, just watch the Russian show instead.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

"I was there, My Lai was self defence, those children and women were.... Hamas? Where am I again? Have you seen my... I can't find... I don't- What year is it??" - American boomer, brain disintegrating in real time from a combination of Fox News, Agent Orange, long COVID, leaded gasoline and suppressed guilt.

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