[CW: Sinophobia, Islamophobia, Russophobia, Red Scare] Oh cool, a book store! I wonder if they have any good theory in the politics sectio-... oh ... (hexbear.net)

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Oh... yea

SNEAKY CHINESE COMMUNISTS EXPOSED

Is there a word for when the world becomes what used to be satire? I remember when The Red Scare of the fifties was made fun of as ridiculous hysteria (Hank Hills dad, Fallout and Harvester come to mind off the top of my head of jokes the 90s' used to make about The Red Scare), and here we are repeating the mistakes that we used to shame the past for.

Vidya game was right, war never changes

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[-] Sebrof@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

Bookstores make me cry.

[-] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago

The sheer angst when walking into a book store's "history" section

[-] Sebrof@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

And it's wall to wall books on military "history" (solely on WWII) combined with books on "authoritarian dictators" like Stalin and Hitler, who are exactly the same person.

Bookstores used to be my favorite place to go to when I was a wee kid (no big library where I grew up). :(