God that’s depressing. I’m still trying to rethink all the examples I use in class that just take for granted that the US is a consolidated democracy.

I spent countless hours on Facebook trying to convince my old roommate’s brother why his zero hedge links were bullshit. In hindsight I think it would’ve been much more productive to just be like “lol check out fuckin clown shoes over here” and post tinfoil hat memes at him

Which would probably go a long way toward explaining why Iran hasn’t gone after US assets. Making sure there are still additional costs it could impose if US joins in.

I’m genuinely surprised he doesn’t have some intensely visceral hatred of Vietnam. Pretty formative thing for his generation, even if he always knew the bone spurs would save him.