SadStruggle92 [none/use name]

It would be fucking amazing to watch :melon-musk: get Lowtax’d.

I have been counting the days for it to come out, tbh. I’m very interested in getting a long-form history of the Korean War that isn’t Imperialist trash, because I think that if you can get people to at least sympathize with North Korea that’s a big milestone towards getting them to no longer see ML-States or Anti-Imperialist movements as “alien” or scary; but people put in a profoundly terrible situation largely by the efforts & intentions of American Cold-War Policy.

Whether or not a given person will sympathize with North Korea is also I think a good test generally, IMO.

Pls updoot my post 2 😭

I don’t think anyone needed to know about this tbh.

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Reminder: This is not a debate subreddit, it’s a place to circle-jerk about communism being cool and good.

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I never thought about it before but Full Metal Jacket is kind of retrograde the way it portrays the guy who blasted his CO as a sobbing incompetent moron. In reality there was a lot of resistance and direct murder of COs by GIs during the Vietnam War, but it wasn’t done by antisocial mouth-breathing idiots but principled resistors.

Well, Gomer Pyle is not supposed to be a depiction of a “principled resistor”. He’s supposed to be a depiction of a guy who is obviously mentally disabled, but got pushed through medical examination anyways due to lowering recruitment standards. As I understand that was also a hot-button issue at the time.

That said, I would personally prefer that you did not speak so frankly on your opinions regarding Mr. Pyle. Comparison with the character is actually one of the ways people where I live used to use to try to get at me.

I’m just saying it’s an ahistorical representation of the type of person who actually did that.

That’s fair enough, and I think I understand what you mean in that context. That’s also not really the part of the take that I was objecting to I guess. :shrug-outta-hecks:

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The tough part I guess is convincing them that Republicans including Trump are complicit in those same evil deeds.

The real problem with this kind of person is that they refuse to accept that this is just what America always was. The freedoms that it was ostensibly founded on were only ever actually supposed to be for it’s most wealthy & established participants.