207 points

I’ve got class war, which is a real doozy.

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Yooo same. Why the fuck don’t these people just fuck off and relax? I can’t imagine having that much money and still feeling like I have to go to work.

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22 points

Because at some point after the first few million you turn into a dragon that must hoard wealth and the people that generate that wealth become a cost to minimize.

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Barf, after my first few million they better be looking all over for me cause ima be peaced out to a 100 year vacation.

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1 point

Old and busted: class war

New hotness: culture war

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62 points

My sheet says “rome”

Uh oh

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8 points

“So, what’s Rome’s history like?”

“It’s all war.”

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4 points

Republic or Empire?

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3 points

Western.

Not gonna lie my eyes glaze over a bit at the byzantium complexity

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49 points

Hell yeah, I got the Dominion War. Time for another DS9 rewatch.

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45 points

I’m the War on Christmas guy, and I’m getting my ass handed to me every single year.

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6 points

i’m the war on advent guy. you don’t know how nice you have it

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4 points

I’m the war on drugs guy and I… what was I talking about? Man, those brownies were strong! *strolls off*

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44 points

The best class I took in college was an intercession course about the Vietnam War. We had to read an entire book pretty much every day, which was great prep for grad school.

I basically learned that the entire war was completely unjustified, it was horrific and brutal on both sides in ways that aren’t talked about, but that ultimately the United States had absolutely no business interfering. Vietnam had spent years under French colonial control, which they overthrew under their own power. They had already asserted a desire to rule themselves.

Tonkin was also a genuine false flag, which just isn’t acknowledged? We manufactured the cause for an extremely unpopular war. So many young man died or were disabled because of something that was pointless.

That class was first that really got me to question the patriotic narrative I was taught about American history in high school.

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Of course we can’t acknowledge it, because then we can’t make the same “mistake” again and people will start questioning real causus belli like saddams WMDs which we’ll find any day now.

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9 points

Vietnam got a rough fucking deal in the 1900s. Shortly after the US left, the Cambodians under Pol Pot invaded, and they were brutal

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10 points

And Vietnam ended up kicking Pol Pot off which is impossible to argue as anything but a win for humanity.

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3 points

Yeah they deserve some sort of award for that.

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China also invaded.

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5 points

Twice, the buggers

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