You can repeat “US imperialism bad” as much as you want but learning the play by play is just absolutely mind blowing. Its always so much worse than you could initially imagine.
You can repeat “US imperialism bad” as much as you want but learning the play by play is just absolutely mind blowing. Its always so much worse than you could initially imagine.
Another wild thing about that season is that MacArthur is remembered fondly by anyone. It’s not just that the dude was a psychopath but he was also treasonous.
America needed a hero so the media manufactured one.
The more you learn about MacArthur, the more you learn what a piece of shit he was.
Americans lionizing a right wing psycho? :shocked-pikachu:
Half of the country was fully MacArthur-pilled during the Cold War. They were installing Nazis into a bunch of positions of power. There was a reactionary mind virus infecting a big chunk of the populace
Unrelated fact: This was the time period when the use of leaded gasoline peaked. It began to be phased out in 1973.
Unrelated to the prior unrelated fact: The Vietnam War ended in 1975.
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