• shitstorm [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Two of my closest friends have living family members who fled their countries because of US actions in the 1970s. Their respetive families' countries are on other sides of the globe. So yes it's very appropriate to be still mad.

      • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        70s? I spent the entire of our dog walk yesterday ranting about shit America did in the 16 and 1700s lmao

        • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I get mad about stuff America did in the 1770s on a regular basis

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    haha it's not like past actions shaped our present world or anything haha

    • asaharyev [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Pretty sure this article is the Onion writers looking at themselves in the mirror.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, some people on twitter thought it was making fun of leftists, but this is definitely meant to be relatable to people who come off weird to their friends and family for caring too much about US foreign policy.

    • VernetheJules [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Because as well all know: who controls the past, controls....nothing because we're living in the end of history! Come on, let's party like it's 1999!

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        if you haven't heard TrueAnon Episode 69 Raising Atlantis (premium) where Matt and WIll guest, it really goes into this. Matt has a great rant about how history makes the present

        https://www.reddit.com/r/blackepsteinfeed/comments/glx2hh/episode_69_raising_atlantis/

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    me, walking around mumbling about "fucking imperialists" and "the goddamn state department" under my breath constantly

  • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    There's also the way all the bad shit the US government has admitted to is at least 40 years old.

    And in 40 years, all the bad shit the US government will have admitted to will be at least 40 years old.

    Because they generally declassify stuff after 40 years.

    In fact, the automatic declassification executive order in 1996 was going to be set at 40 years, because that was already standard practice. People objected that that made it useless, so Clinton made it 25 years with lots of loopholes instead so it could be differently useless.

  • CommunistDog [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I feel like most Americans who start examining American history are gonna go through this phase. We basically aren't taught anything but the few decent parts in school so when you actually start reading into everything it's a constant stream of "We did WHAT?!". I'm still stuck in it.

  • shitstorm [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I did NOT give the Onion permission to run this interview.

    • garbology [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      American government gets the meat sweats if it's been over 9 years since they did a coup in South America.

  • SimAnt [any]
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    3 years ago

    this, but the boyfriend and I are both upset, and we're scaring the kitty with our ranting

  • sailorfish [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    It's me, but it's also me laughing at the people still mad about the SPD selling the communists out in the 30s.

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