Lib copium is already jumping to 10/10: "politically I don’t see a gain." (hexbear.net)

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Saigon Execution

The average American would have no idea what those words mean in 2024. Or 2014. Or 2004. Or 1994. As for 1984 - my wild guess is that 2 out of 100 Americans might know.

9/11 images

Well, of course the Dubya-Cheney administration milked the shit out of that event and it made a 2004 win easy for them.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Saigon Execution is an irrelevant photo now but at the time it was iconic for the antiwar movement which is why I think it's a very powerful picture, there was a world where the war lasted a bit longer but mounting pressure from the domestic anti-war movement played a role in stopping the war. Only a secondary role to the absolutely heroic struggle of the Viet Minh, of course.