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It’s vaguely analogous to the US use of military funding as trickle-down welfare.

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Cued to the appropriate bit, bit continues until about 31:30. Korean War.

Most of this is a conventional heroic Cold War America vs evil Commies type of documentary; I think that the bit I excerpted was intended as disappointment rather than regret.

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Vichyvichy.

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https://twitter.com/yarimarbonilla/status/991415403703357441?s=21

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Periodic reminder that al-Qaeda are murderously bigoted against Shia Muslims and Iran had nothing to do with 9/11.

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It’s totally normal and healthy for mainstream “journalists” to think like this.

The US media is catastrophically fucked and massively destructive. Not just Fox and Brietbart, all of it. CNN, MSNBC, NYT, the Washingon Post, Slate, NPR…none of these institutions are on the side of the people.

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