coeliacmccarthy [he/him]@hexbear.net to doomer@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-25 months agofun fact there was a time when americans weren't expected to accept a global network of secret torture camps as a given akin to the sun rising at dawnmessage-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1153arrow-down1message-squarefun fact there was a time when americans weren't expected to accept a global network of secret torture camps as a given akin to the sun rising at dawncoeliacmccarthy [he/him]@hexbear.net to doomer@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-25 months agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
I literally never once heard the word “homeland” in a US nationalism context until a week after 9/11 god damn america
minus-squareasg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·5 months agoTorture used to be the thing that only the “bad guys” did.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·5 months agoI refused to watch Zero Dark Thirty, and from what I hear (and suspected), it made the efficacy of and justification for torture “ambiguous.” I hear that torture realpolitik was bread & butter fare on 24, which I also wouldn’t watch.
minus-squareasg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·5 months agoI just assume everything on the big or small screens is imperial propaganda and psyops now.
Torture used to be the thing that only the “bad guys” did.
I refused to watch Zero Dark Thirty, and from what I hear (and suspected), it made the efficacy of and justification for torture “ambiguous.” I hear that torture realpolitik was bread & butter fare on 24, which I also wouldn’t watch.
I just assume everything on the big or small screens is imperial propaganda and psyops now.