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.

  • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    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

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      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.