• bottech [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Didnt mccain admit that he lied about being tortured?

      • bottech [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        For us it may be funny, but that lie stiil was a part of atrocity propaganda, so if history is written by the victors then we should write it in a way that is beneficial to us, that is, that he wasnt tortured

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/06/21/new-evidence-reveals-that-senator-john-mccain-and-other-high-ranking-vietnam-war-pows-may-have-lied-to-the-american-public-about-being-tortured/

      New Evidence Reveals That Senator John McCain and Other High-Ranking Vietnam War POWs May Have Lied to the American Public About Being Tortured

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/14/uselections2008-johnmccain

      McCain was not tortured, PoW guard claims

      The Republican US presidential candidate John McCain was not tortured during his captivity in North Vietnam, the chief prison guard of the jail in which he was held has claimed.

      In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Nguyen Tien Tran acknowledged that conditions in the prison were "tough, though not inhuman". But, he added: "We never tortured McCain. On the contrary, we saved his life, curing him with extremely valuable medicines that at times were not available to our own wounded."

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Imagine sitting on your hand before masturbating for so long you suffer nerve damage, then you have to spend the next 50 years pretending it was because of torture.

      • bottech [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        So, he didnt admit it but i was still right that he wasnt tortured

    • buh [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      The real reason his arms got messed up in that POW camp was too much jacking off

  • HarryLime [any]
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    3 years ago

    McCain wasn't tortured. The North Vietnamese didn't systemically use torture, the South did.

  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Liberation of Saigon

    • Happiness of the fact that the Empire was defeated compounded by knowing the country had a bright future

    Fall of Kabul

    • Happiness of the fact that the Empire was defeated diminished due to knowing that the country is now in the hands of reactionary fundamentalists