We do not have george washington framed photos hanging in every classroom
That's a weird arbitrary line to draw, since 1: We carved his face on a fucking mountain, and 2: most classes have an American flag that once a day every day the students must face while they recite an oath of allegiance to the state.
This is like when people say that Trump isn't a racist because no one has a video of him shooting a black guy in the head while saying "I am killing this black man because I hate black people because I am a racist".
They love to only have these weird, extremely specific definitions of bad things so that it just so happens that America's enemies are all these bad things but America isn't. It's like when you say the US is systemically racist and they go "well, I don't see any laws that says 'police must be racist' so how can it be systemical?".
mods give me the power if you need I will end this :elmofire: I'm literally begging you make it stop holy fuck
Unsub from one of the more active comms just so I can avoid updates about the Bad Take Man? Nah
The United States does not have framed photos of George Washington sitting in front of every classroom
Lmao what school did he go to? We totally have pictures of the founding fathers all over the place, particularly hung on the walls
THEYM DAMMNN DUHETY CUSTOAL ELEET LIHBRULS TOOK DA FOUNDING FATHERS OFF OUR CUNTRY OF OWUR WALLS AND ARRRE BBWAINROSHING OUR CHILRENS TO BE CULTUREDAL MARK-SEXSIES
I suppose you don't have to brainwash rich kids into being pro-capitalism.
I don't know, we were also taught that Washington lied and had wooden teeth and other bizarre shit. How many flaws do they teach young North Koreans about the Kim dynasty?
I mean weren't his actual dentures made of teeth from slaves? The wooden thing sounds like covering that up
I don't think they were his slaves, necessarily, but they were likely from a slave cadaver, as was popular practice at the time.
Potentially from a living slave, as enslaved peoples had been selling their teeth for centuries at that point.
Not clear if these teeth were specifically for washington's dentures but yeah
libs will say this was ok because he "paid" them
True I just remembered hearing something to that effect, still horrifying tho
I've not met one American teenager who isn't hypercritical of the US's legacy or current leadership. I'm not sure where everyone is getting that the system breeds sycophants (unless they're 1776 aesthetic fascists).
I think "wooden teeth" was a contemporary euphamism, but I'm not positive about that
in authoritarian dystopia north korea they carved busts of the kim family into a mountain
Mount Rushmore is a perfect representation of how america wages wars. It starts out by stealing the land, massacring or pushing off the people who live there, trying to half assedly enforce its ideals on the land, give up halfway through and leave a huge mess, then turn it into a money making operation.
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In the Capital of North Korea, the central district is covered in giant monuments to the achievements of the nations leaders. School Children are made to go and revere these monuments.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair
Has he ever heard of the cherry tree myth? Meanwhile when the USSR tried to do something similar with :josus-stalin: he responded:
I am absolutely against the publication of "Stories of the childhood of Stalin". The book abounds with a mass of inexactitudes of fact, of alterations, of exaggerations and of unmerited praise. Some amateur writers, scribblers, (perhaps honest scribblers) and some adulators have led the author astray. It is a shame for the author, but a fact remains a fact. But this is not the important thing. The important thing resides in the fact that the book has a tendency to engrave on the minds of Soviet children (and people in general) the personality cult of leaders, of infallible heroes. This is dangerous and detrimental. The theory of "heroes" and the "crowd" is not a Bolshevik, but a SR theory. The heroes make the people, transform them from a crowd into people, thus say the SRs. The people make the heroes, thus reply the Bolsheviks to the SRs. The book carries water to the windmill of the SRs. No matter which book it is that brings the water to the windmill of the SRs, this book is going to drown in our common, Bolshevik cause. I suggest we burn this book.
You can't question Washington especially in congress, he's constantly portrayed as wise, knowledgeable, infallible, and always does what's right. If that isn't a cult of personality, I don't know what is
Trotsky's resolution that allowed the execution of those who opposed the German occupation of Ukraine
What the fuck
It's very unclear from just the wikipedia text what this actually was (and even then I don't give Trotsky a pass on this at all), but what happened was Germany and Austria-Hungary had seized chunks of Ukraine in Operation Faustschlag, the last offensive of WW1, and Trotsky wanted men fighting the whites in the area not the German and Austro-Hungarian occupiers in Odessa I think out of fear it would ignite a wider war as Bolshevik aligned forces in the area would be violating the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which made peace with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Bolshevik government in exchange for letting Germany and Austria-Hungary keep the occupied parts of Ukraine and Belorussia until independence was established or something (not clear, the troops were out by late 1918, but the left SR uprising was in July, and the peace treaty was in early March).
he sounds more like an out and out right winger every day. even generic libs agree we fetishize the founding fathers dude...
ok he just said "there is NOT a cult of personality around the founding fathers, and im willing to die on this hill"
Ah shit they agreed to debate him. I hope emo_soccer_mom knows what they're getting into because even if you're right that's not enough to win against these debate bros.
unless you already gave an audience its not worth dealing with the vitriol. wasnt the chat racist towards luna oi when they debated? the dude from enough vaush spam keeps getting death threats, etc, etc
It's hella worth it if you have thick skin. Racists and threatener reactionaries come with the territory of reaching a wider audience. Easier to hit a block button than to stop a flashbang or police baton.
I want to add though that stuff does suck, and you have a point. I let mean online dumbasses get to me sometimes too.
but it can't be referred to without sounding like a gigantic douchebag so at least the joke is on them in that regard
