let’s not forget about MK Ultra

while ik the name is associated with “conspiracy theorists”, the only “conspiracy” part about it is whether it still goes on today

MK Ultra was (or is) very real and has been confirmed. they literally dosed unsuspecting people with LSD for human experimentation

Because killing 200k people, men, women, children & all is justified

yeah i think the argument that "it would have ultimately saved lives!!!" is complete bs

I’m confused what’re you getting at ?

It was unethical regardless of if a cure was created from all that madness

yep. iirc The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a children's novel based on the 16th Street Baptist bombing. read it as a kid.

Watched a really good documentary on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs and the people who created it. The growing sentiment along the testing phase was that it wasn’t necessary and the war was going to be ended soon. Half of the science responsible for creating it tried to stage a meeting where they pled for it not to be used.

US government had different plans

I’m honestly surprised Japan recovered from it

I’m sure a lot of people didn’t, but mentally it must’ve caused generational trauma

The fact this was only 100 years ago

yeah, and also the other non-atomic bombings of Japan which seem almost as bad. hundreds thousands of civilians killed

A lot of these things I didn’t know until junior year lol

I grew up in an awful area with bad schools a lot of our books were trash

Why does no one talk about the White House being burned down

Rich dudes spent millions throughout the 20th century to implement the idea that a society is only free when it’s ultra liberal and fully capitalist

In reality ideas like taxing the rich more was widely accepted by all sides of the political spectrum before that

any poor person against taxing the rich is an idiot

trump promoting "patriotic education", calls 1619 project toxic propaganda

glad this mf gone

There was a famine in india during ww2 and britain did nothing to help and kept all the resources for themselves for the war

They did the exact same thing during the irish famine when they claimed it wasnt the government role to intervene in the economy and let millions die without lifting a finger so they could take their homes and lands

British rulers always considered themselves a superior race that had the right to steal and murder for their own interests

Oh yea another exemple is thinking the irish famine was caused by a disease when it was the first exemple of a massacre caused by liberalism

Slavery was made illegal before colonialism started and they wouldnt enslave indians anyways

Dont listen to the brits tho plenty countries made slavery illegal before them

@ARCADE_GOON you got any favorite books (in general) and resources for learning about history/keeping up with current?

A few year ago the was an uproar because a Texas history book labeled slaves as “indentured servants” and flat out said they “agree to serve a period of seven years of servitude in exchange for a ride to America but the white colonists refuse to let them go after their servitude ended.”

Slowing but surely trying to downplay the white mans involvement in the slave trade.

British also offered slaves in America freedom if they helped them fight against America

This can’t be real

Malcolm X is pretty nonexistent in US History curriculum. Same with the welfare programs the Black Panthers created to aid their communities

also Americans think they won the War of 1812