SadStruggle92 [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • while there is obviously a power dynamic between differently aged people

    IDK, I feel like that’s an incomplete proposition, to some extent at least.

    The things that typically make for an “power-dynamic” in a relationship, like accumulated personal wealth, social experience, social networks & ones overall position in society are all to some extent or another correlated with age to some extent. But y’know, none of those are necessarily guarantees; at least not within the specific age-range specified in the post at any rate.








  • I never thought about it before but Full Metal Jacket is kind of retrograde the way it portrays the guy who blasted his CO as a sobbing incompetent moron. In reality there was a lot of resistance and direct murder of COs by GIs during the Vietnam War, but it wasn’t done by antisocial mouth-breathing idiots but principled resistors.

    Well, Gomer Pyle is not supposed to be a depiction of a “principled resistor”. He’s supposed to be a depiction of a guy who is obviously mentally disabled, but got pushed through medical examination anyways due to lowering recruitment standards. As I understand that was also a hot-button issue at the time.

    That said, I would personally prefer that you did not speak so frankly on your opinions regarding Mr. Pyle. Comparison with the character is actually one of the ways people where I live used to use to try to get at me.






  • I have been counting the days for it to come out, tbh. I’m very interested in getting a long-form history of the Korean War that isn’t Imperialist trash, because I think that if you can get people to at least sympathize with North Korea that’s a big milestone towards getting them to no longer see ML-States or Anti-Imperialist movements as “alien” or scary; but people put in a profoundly terrible situation largely by the efforts & intentions of American Cold-War Policy.

    Whether or not a given person will sympathize with North Korea is also I think a good test generally, IMO.