• soft [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    any time bad stuff happens to us we just sublimate it into more contempt for the poor.

    • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Or it's swept under the rug and forgotten about like the War of 1812 and the Korean War. Or there's the "stabbed in the back" narrative like how the hippies ruined the Vietnam War which we were totally winning

    • TechnologyMoth [comrade/them,any]
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      2 years ago

      westerners have deified themselves, it's just racism all the way down. the emotional trauma 7-11 is somehow greater than having your entire country blown up