• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    8 months ago

    What’s really funny is that 25 years into the War on Terror the writer can’t tell the difference between Hindu and Islamic faiths. I mean ‘know your enemy’ is basic military training.

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      There’s absolutely nothing about the original tweet that makes sense. India was a major contributor to the allied war effort, albeit not entirely voluntarily. Though I suppose the same could be said for most countries due to conscription and even the cancellation of elections.

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          It really makes you pessimistic about human nature that you can build a society where freedom is widely celebrated as the highest ideal, yet somehow still have it be incredibly oppressive.

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            It’s not a new concept.

            Though it’s quite amazing, with the level of access to information we have today, how effective such propaganda is.

            Though I suppose if you are manipulating that information to spin your agenda, maybe it’s not so surprising after all.

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        Unfortunately, it does make sense through a neo-nazi lens. “The wrong side won WWII” and similar sentiments are getting a lot of traction on twitter, facebook, etc. right now. The OP in the image is sarcastically “glad” that the Allies won. He would have preferred that the nazis had won so the global third reich could protect Murfreesboro, TN from people who are different than him and fulfill whatever other twisted racist fantasies exist in these people’s minds.

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      8 months ago

      I mean in this case “enemies” is just “brown people.” It doesn’t matter what they call them.