I wasn't born when this happened, but it was important enough to my parents that I did multiple research projects on it. My dad's tour of duty (after he was drafted) ended before Saigon fell... and I was really worried I would be drafted too when 9/11 happened.
I just finished watching PBS’s docuseries on the war. Thank you for your service. I noticed many similarities between then and now. The main difference: the guardrails of the three branches remained constitutional (& music fueled movements)
I’m curious, what do you make of what’s happening today?
Yes! I cried many times. For our troops, citizens and the people of Vietnam. It ended on a note about the work USAID -did- to clean up agent orange and remove explosives. People are still dying from that war. This administration ended our commitment to right wrongs
Yeah, this is a really good one. I'd planned on buying a new iPhone 17 when released in September but looks like I might get a 16 instead now, even though I really don't want to. No idea what it will be like when the next one gets released, but I'm not holding my breath.
The tariffs are resulting in companies leaving foreign soil and moving their sweatshops stateside. Not to improve any working conditions, mind you, they're just sending our children to make them instead of Vietnamese ones.
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Trump simply must prevaricate
The word is we're tariffing everyone
By dawn
My iPhone is on that chopper!
DOGE says it'll save us a ton.
As fast as we randomly generate bullshit country lists
We're gone
But my iPhone is in there!
The President won't leave till his next golf bout
The tariffs are on the way there's
Room to screw you all
They're climbing over the White House Fence!
The President won't leave till his next golf bout
That's it, no more iPhones please!
But my iPhone isn't on that chopper!
I’m curious, what do you make of what’s happening today?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/26/50-years-after-the-vietnam-war-ended-its-bombs-continue-to-kill
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk @alt-text.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/techmeme.com/post/3lmabpt74rz2g
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/mobiles-tabs/how-apple-flew-5-flights-full-of-iphones-from-india-and-china-in-3-days-to-beat-trump-tariffs/articleshow/120044321.cms
I was on a Destroyer Escort off the coast transporting people to Subic Bay.
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