coeliacmccarthy [he/him] to doomer • edit-26 months agofun fact there was a time when americans weren't expected to accept a global network of secret torture camps as a given akin to the sun rising at dawnmessage-squaremessage-square19 fedilinkarrow-up1153file-text
arrow-up1153message-squarefun fact there was a time when americans weren't expected to accept a global network of secret torture camps as a given akin to the sun rising at dawncoeliacmccarthy [he/him] to doomer • edit-26 months agomessage-square19 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
I literally never once heard the word "homeland" in a US nationalism context until a week after 9/11 god damn america
minus-squareasg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]hexbear30·6 months agoTorture used to be the thing that only the "bad guys" did. link
minus-squaredavel [he/him]hexbear23·6 months agoI refused to watch Zero Dark Thirty, and from what I hear (and suspected), it made the efficacy of and justification for torture “ambiguous.” I hear that torture realpolitik was bread & butter fare on 24, which I also wouldn’t watch. link
minus-squareasg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]hexbear25·6 months agoI just assume everything on the big or small screens is imperial propaganda and psyops now. link
Torture used to be the thing that only the "bad guys" did.
I refused to watch Zero Dark Thirty, and from what I hear (and suspected), it made the efficacy of and justification for torture “ambiguous.” I hear that torture realpolitik was bread & butter fare on 24, which I also wouldn’t watch.
I just assume everything on the big or small screens is imperial propaganda and psyops now.