It’s stunning how many people seem to forget that there are other countries on the planet that use dollars and weren’t involved in Vietnam. No, I’m not making an assumption. The person who posted this is Canadian.

Y’all really need to take a step back and reflect a little bit.

  • bluewing@lemm.ee
    215·
    2 days ago

    They left out the part about getting drafted and sent to Vietnam with that 3rd grade education and risk dying for people that didn’t care about you and other that hated you. Then coming home and getting spit on, literally spit on, by the people around you. And no one caring about the damage war caused you.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
      283·
      2 days ago

      This is a myth.

      There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling “baby killer”. Most occur in U.S. civilian airports, usually San Francisco International, as GIs returned from the war zone in their uniforms.

      No unambiguous documented incident of this behavior has ever surfaced, despite repeated and concerted efforts to uncover them.

      • andybytes@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Honestly, when people say that I think they’re referring to the financial system. in the age of surveillance capitalism. and the predatory environments that we live in, there is no protection against corporations from scamming you and nickling diming you from every direction to the point where you’re left with nothing and you are wander on the streets. Decades of not allowing people to repair their own things and following the rule of the lowest common denominator, we are left with a very generic throwaway society. that doesn’t value human skill set, which leaves us all in a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. It’s not that people can’t take care of themselves. It’s just they’re not allowed to, unless the billionaire can get between you and what you need. It seems we are revisiting the 20s and 30s, but only the technofascist version. This is just a continuation of the boom and bust cycle with different flavor.

      • bluewing@lemm.ee
        82·
        2 days ago

        Nope nor a dirt poor white person either. Never forget, it’s all about the money and far less than the color of your skin.

        • meliaesc@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          N… no absolutely not. Being black in the 50s is not comparable to being a poor white person in the 50s.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      122·
      2 days ago

      Which all would be lovely and true if they were American.

      They’re not.

      It’s almost like countries other than the United States exist…