• Ellia Plissken@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      no, if you were a white middle class boomer born between 1945 & 1970ish. who managed not to go to vietnam, you got to live the American dream. then we methodically voted for the people who stripped away all of the policies that made it possible

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        2 months ago

        Hey, my boomer dad got to be a slave soldier AND live the dream.

        Because his dad was a dentist and he could afford to pay for college after Uncle Sam, it turns out, got him shot twice, blown up once, and gave him leukemia.

        But at least Vietnam doesn’t have universal healthcare.

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          2 months ago

          actually 87% of the Vietnamese population are covered by social health insurance (as of 2018)

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            2 months ago

            I know, I’m referring to the fact that all that got done to him to defend a fascist state against Big Scary Communist Ho Chi Minh who actually wanted to be a US Ally against Chinese influence in Asia.

            And then they didn’t even fucking win. Which was probably good, but still.