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Rest In Power, Michael Brooks.
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i think even though we're getting further away from the events every day that the details are still lurid enough and present IRL that even a podcast as well made and sourced as this still actives peoples' i-heard-a-terrible-thing-brain-shutdown mechanism.
it's barbaric. Nearly beyond description
I read Jakarta Method a couple years ago and talking about any single part of the book to people had them shutdown almost immediately.
Its just so fucking heavy. All I can do is drop a bit here or there, "The airforce bombed the north so completely they ran out of targets", "MacArthur had to have his command of nukes taken away in secret because Eisenhower thought he'd nuke china first if he got wind of them being taken away". Small facts sometimes get through but string more than one together and they cant handle it.
Half of the country was fully MacArthur-pilled during the Cold War. They were installing Nazis into a bunch of positions of power. There was a reactionary mind virus infecting a big chunk of the populace
Unrelated fact: This was the time period when the use of leaded gasoline peaked. It began to be phased out in 1973.
Unrelated to the prior unrelated fact: The Vietnam War ended in 1975.
The birthdates and childhoods of the biggest :frothingfash: I know line up with that.
America needed a hero so the media manufactured one.
The more you learn about MacArthur, the more you learn what a piece of shit he was.
Americans lionizing a right wing psycho? :shocked-pikachu:
The whole chapter on the extermination was one of the most chilling things I have ever read.